{"id":217451,"date":"2025-05-15T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=85ad31e9c2be9dd06c7a89764da304b6"},"modified":"2025-05-15T07:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:00:39","slug":"commuters-want-tauranga-to-auckland-train-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=217451","title":{"rendered":"Commuters want Tauranga to Auckland train services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Green Party policy for a passenger train between Auckland and Tauranga is a \u201cno-brainer\u201d commuters say, as a \u201ccheaper, safer and faster\u201d alternative to the\u00a0worst traffic in the country\u00a0and soaring airfares.<\/p>\n<p>Policy announced on Wednesday proposes extending the existing\u00a0Te Huia train service, between Hamilton and Auckland, building additional stations in Tauranga, Morrinsville and Waharoa.<\/p>\n<p>The trip between Tauranga and Auckland would take two-and-a-half hours, and could be established in two years, according to the proposal. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\n\u201c New Zealand Aotearoa was once a country with frequent, affordable train services joined up right across the country. We&#8217;ve done it before, and we can do it again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rising cost of living that New Zealanders are struggling with today is partially driven by increasing transport costs,\u201d says Swarbrick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Green Party policy for a passenger train between Auckland and Tauranga is a \u201cno-brainer\u201d commuters say, as a \u201ccheaper, safer and faster\u201d alternative to the\u00a0wo<\/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-217451","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\/217451","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=217451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217452,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217451\/revisions\/217452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}