{"id":22974,"date":"2024-03-27T05:47:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=d7297549f9aa17de30d397ce1120c25d"},"modified":"2024-03-27T05:47:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:47:43","slug":"advocate-makes-plea-for-vulnerable-palmerston-north-bus-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=22974","title":{"rendered":"Advocate makes plea for \u2018vulnerable\u2019 Palmerston North bus users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An advocate for older bus users has called for Horizons Regional Council to reconsider some changes to its new public transport network.<\/p>\n<p>Horizons launched the country\u2019s first all-electric bus service in Palmerston North at the start of the month,\u00a0coinciding with a major change to the city\u2019s bus network.<\/p>\n<p>There are more frequent and direct routes in some parts of town, but some areas no longer have a nearby service running through them.<\/p>\n<p>Robyn Douglas spoke to the council at its meeting on Tuesday where she told councillors the new service did not provide for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An advocate for older bus users has called for Horizons Regional Council to reconsider some changes to its new public transport network. Horizons launched the c<\/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-22974","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\/22974","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=22974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22975,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22974\/revisions\/22975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}