{"id":194829,"date":"2025-04-03T08:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=880360c35f2b92d8e3f6105454de8c11"},"modified":"2025-04-03T08:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:56:15","slug":"wellington-commuter-trains-ridership-declines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=194829","title":{"rendered":"Wellington commuter trains ridership declines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New figures out from Wellington\u2019s regional council show a fall in commuter train punctuality and reliability, but the biggest decline is the almost 2 million trips that were never taken.<\/p>\n<p>It is a trend that politicians on both sides of the political divide say needs to reverse, but with varying willingness to invest in the issue long-term.<\/p>\n<p>Papers to the Wellington Regional Transport Committee this week show that,\u00a0after a horror period in recent years, Wellington bus patronage continues to improve but train figures are going the other way.<\/p>\n<p>The Greater Wellington Regional Council has confirmed a decline in train trips taken on the Wellington commuter network from 7.27 million in 2018-19 \u2013 the last full year before the Covid pandemic \u2013 to 5.34 million in the last financial year. Punctuality had dropped by 6% while reliability was down 0.6%. Patronage dropped by 7.9% in the past year alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New figures out from Wellington\u2019s regional council show a fall in commuter train punctuality and reliability, but the biggest decline is the almost 2 million tr<\/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-194829","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\/194829","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=194829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194830,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194829\/revisions\/194830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}