{"id":20946,"date":"2024-03-14T14:48:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T04:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=0f82ab05b744b43f34a4d6e64ffe3201"},"modified":"2024-03-14T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T04:48:28","slug":"bay-of-plenty-free-bus-fares-could-be-axed-after-government-pulls-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=20946","title":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty free bus fares could be axed after Government pulls funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free bus fares in\u00a0Bay of Plenty\u00a0could be cut back after the Government pulled its funding.<\/p>\n<p>Buses have been free for anyone aged 18 or under and half price for 19-24 year olds in\u00a0[Tauranga](https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/tauranga\/),\u00a0[Whakat\u0101ne](https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/whakatane\/), and\u00a0[Rotorua](https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/rotorua\/)\u00a0since July last year.<\/p>\n<p>But that is likely to be scaled back after the Government announced in December it would stop subsidising the fares from April 30.<\/p>\n<p>Funding would continue for half-price fares for Community Services Card holders and Total Mobility users.<\/p>\n<p>The move has forced the\u00a0Bay of Plenty Regional Council, which delivers public transport, to look at its fare structure.<\/p>\n<p>If the council continued with free youth fares, it would do so at its own cost and cause rates to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free bus fares in\u00a0Bay of Plenty\u00a0could be cut back after the Government pulled its funding. Buses have been free for anyone aged 18 or under and half price for 1<\/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-20946","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\/20946","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=20946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20947,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946\/revisions\/20947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}