{"id":190989,"date":"2025-03-25T11:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T01:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=da79c722b43c8963e0ec52a471937204"},"modified":"2025-03-25T11:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T01:25:41","slug":"missing-78m-for-public-transport-in-christchurch-reallocated-to-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=190989","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Missing\u2019 $78m for public transport in Christchurch reallocated to roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A significant investment into Greater Christchurch\u2019s public transport which went \u201cmissing\u201d last year has been found: in road projects.<\/p>\n<p>The $78 million worth of public transport funding from central government was reallocated in December &#8211; when Cabinet approved funding for upgrades to Brougham St (a project the Government had earlier axed) and for the second Ashburton Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>But the reason it was axed remains murky. A recent letter from Transport Minister Chris Bishop &#8211; obtained by\u00a0*The Press*\u00a0&#8211; points the finger at the Christchurch City Council, suggesting the council proactively gave up on accessing that funding in February 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant investment into Greater Christchurch\u2019s public transport which went \u201cmissing\u201d last year has been found: in road projects. The $78 million worth of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190990,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190989\/revisions\/190990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}