{"id":215293,"date":"2025-05-12T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=d3c3d252b940ff9211f51e0bad02a8f2"},"modified":"2025-05-12T06:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T20:00:52","slug":"why-a-rapidly-growing-auckland-suburb-has-no-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=215293","title":{"rendered":"Why a rapidly-growing Auckland suburb has no public transport?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of an up-and-coming Auckland suburb say they are being \u201cheld to ransom\u201d by a private developer, which is yet to build a piece of road needed for the suburb to get a bus service.<\/p>\n<p>Despite bus stops having already been installed, they have remained unused for over a year. Residents are upset they\u2019re paying rates with no public transport amenities.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Point, near Hobsonville in Auckland\u2019s north-west, was home to about 3156 people during the\u00a02023 Census. However, with large residential development underway, Auckland Council expected 20,000 new residents to move in over coming years.<\/p>\n<p>The suburb, however, is unlikely to get any public transport until at least June 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of an up-and-coming Auckland suburb say they are being \u201cheld to ransom\u201d by a private developer, which is yet to build a piece of road needed for the s<\/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-215293","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\/215293","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=215293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215294,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215293\/revisions\/215294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}