{"id":268238,"date":"2025-08-11T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=3761f94eeed36c3d7d4f4fd6aa2a540a"},"modified":"2025-08-11T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:00:15","slug":"wellington-train-satisfaction-falls-high-bus-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=268238","title":{"rendered":"Wellington train satisfaction falls, high bus passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passenger satisfaction for Wellington&#8217;s rail services has slumped for the third year in a row, while bus patronage is increasing.<\/p>\n<p>Metlink&#8217;s annual passenger satisfaction survey shows 89 percent of all rail passengers surveyed were happy, down from 92 percent last year and 94 percent the year before.<\/p>\n<p>Just 58 percent of rail passengers on the Wairarapa line &#8211; which runs between Masterton and Wellington &#8211; reported being satisfied with services.<\/p>\n<p>Greater Wellington Regional Council&#8217;s Thomas Nash said trains were not as reliable or punctual as they should be, due to significant maintenance and upgrades on the network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passenger satisfaction for Wellington&#039;s rail services has slumped for the third year in a row, while bus patronage is increasing. Metlink&#039;s annual passe<\/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-268238","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\/268238","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=268238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268239,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268238\/revisions\/268239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}