{"id":198964,"date":"2025-04-11T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=2934997716dd72214e8dbaa7ca6e2b53"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:46:29","slug":"more-private-funding-needed-to-keep-bus-and-train-fare-rises-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=198964","title":{"rendered":"More private funding needed to keep bus and train fare rises low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington regional councillors have voted to set new \u201cpragmatic\u201d private funding targets for the region\u2019s public transport, a proportion lower than what the government initially proposed.<\/p>\n<p>The new targets, voted through at a council meeting on Thursday, meant revenue from the likes of fares and\u00a0[advertising\u00a0](https:\/\/www.thepost.co.nz\/business\/360562711\/public-transport-advertisers-are-not-making-most-lucrative-partnership-expert)was needed to make up 23.9-25.7% of Wellington\u2019s public transport income until 2027. Thatrevenue made up 20.5% of Wellington\u2019s public transport income last year.<\/p>\n<p>The targets would have to be approved by the New Zealand Transport Agency\/Waka Kotahi (NZTA).<\/p>\n<p>The new targets were lower than the NZTA suggestion of 26-42%, which would have meant increasing fares by as much as 70%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington regional councillors have voted to set new \u201cpragmatic\u201d private funding targets for the region\u2019s public transport, a proportion lower than what the go<\/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-198964","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\/198964","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=198964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198965,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198964\/revisions\/198965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}