{"id":211619,"date":"2025-05-06T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=0869006e9d361758dbf65e1ef64d983d"},"modified":"2025-05-06T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:00:28","slug":"waikatos-campaign-for-auckland-to-help-fund-te-huia-train-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=211619","title":{"rendered":"Waikato&#8217;s campaign for Auckland to help fund Te Huia train services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed \u201cgamechanger\u201d Sunday service for Te Huia passenger train services would be part-funded by Auckland if Waikato Regional Council had its way.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a little over a year left in the trial of the inter-regional rail service, meaning start-up funding from NZ Transport Agency is due to dry up mid-2026.<\/p>\n<p>Waikato Regional Council has plans \u201cto ensure Te Huia\u2019s continued success and growth\u201d, chairperson Pamela Storey says, hence asking Auckland Council to stump up with $223,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed \u201cgamechanger\u201d Sunday service for Te Huia passenger train services would be part-funded by Auckland if Waikato Regional Council had its way. There\u2019s a<\/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-211619","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\/211619","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=211619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211620,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211619\/revisions\/211620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}