{"id":23343,"date":"2024-03-29T14:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T04:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=28ee724d8683b579bc386257217556f6"},"modified":"2024-03-29T14:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T04:36:32","slug":"auckland-council-stuck-on-how-to-keep-buses-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=23343","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Council stuck on how to keep buses running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland Council\u00a0is rushing through decisions that align with revised policy statements from central government, leaving councillors and committee members concerned and frustrated with the \u201ctruncated\u201d process.<\/p>\n<p>The council\u2019s transport and infrastructure committee met to review the Government\u2019s new draft policy\u00a0statement on land transport, which first went out for review last August.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Wayne Walker\u00a0commented that Auckland faces significant rises in rail network costs, but there was a \u201cmassive lack of funding\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t think there\u2019s enough \\[government] money to match what council has set aside,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland Transport\u00a0(AT) chief financial officer Mark Laing said that if government funding did not support AT projects, the city could see both significant fare increases and services being cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland Council\u00a0is rushing through decisions that align with revised policy statements from central government, leaving councillors and committee members conce<\/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-23343","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\/23343","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=23343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23344,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23343\/revisions\/23344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}