{"id":224873,"date":"2025-05-24T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T04:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=c0a5085603fbacd32222c33a28cb1e2e"},"modified":"2025-05-24T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T04:53:11","slug":"reintroduction-of-free-shuttle-buses-proposed-for-central-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=224873","title":{"rendered":"Reintroduction of free shuttle buses proposed for central Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plan to resurrect a free inner city shuttle in Christchurch could be stopped by the Canterbuty regional council (ECan) , which is questioning how 1800 bus movements in the central city every weekday is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>A law change in 2023 meant Environment Canterbury &#8211; which operated the region\u2019s public transport &#8211; got the final say, city council staff told councillors at\u00a0council budget workshop\u00a0on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>If ECan decided the shuttle competed too much\u00a0with existing bus routes, it was possible $200,000 earmarked for background work would lead nowhere. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nThe shuttle study was one of several special items the council recently got public feedback on\u00a0as part of its annual plan process, and 58% of submitters were in favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plan to resurrect a free inner city shuttle in Christchurch could be stopped by the Canterbuty regional council (ECan) , which is questioning how 1800 bus mov<\/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-224873","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\/224873","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=224873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224874,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224873\/revisions\/224874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}