{"id":223494,"date":"2025-05-22T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=9bcfd736bb65015464b6eeb02b2b086d"},"modified":"2025-05-22T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T20:00:41","slug":"public-transport-woes-for-canterburys-big-growth-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=223494","title":{"rendered":"Public transport woes for Canterbury&#8217;s big growth areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p>It is back to the drawing board on proposed bus services in the Selwyn district as Canterbury\u2019s regional council ECan struggles with growing demand and limited funds, chairperson Craig Pauling says.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have expressed the need for more public transport in housing growth areas, including Selwyn in Canterbury, but submissions to Environment Canterbury\u2019s 2025\/26 annual plan indicated Selwyn residents did not want to pay the proposed targeted rate for it.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, nearly $1 billion of Government transport funds has been allocated to a single project, the Woodend Bypass, while just $220m was allocated to public transport.<\/p>\n<p>The council has also been under pressure from NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi to increase bus fares amid\u00a0growing demand and a reduction in public transport funding\u00a0in the 2024\/27 National Land Transport Programme (NLTP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is back to the drawing board on proposed bus services in the Selwyn district as Canterbury\u2019s regional council ECan struggles with growing demand and limited<\/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-223494","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\/223494","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=223494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223495,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223494\/revisions\/223495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}