{"id":289533,"date":"2025-09-23T07:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=88cccf9f9c0f708efeec498eb2da09d5"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:45:50","slug":"making-te-huia-train-service-a-permanent-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=289533","title":{"rendered":"Making Te Huia train service a permanent service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Te Huia&#8217;s five-year trial is fast coming towards its close on 30th June 2026. What needs to happen to make it a permanent part of Aotearoa&#8217;s\/New Zealand public transport system?<\/p>\n<p>Buckle up for a bumpy ride through all of the numerous steps needed between now and mid-2026 to secure Te Huia as a permanent service as this is a long post. And spare a thought for the Waikato Regional Council staff who need to do all this work. This post draws extensively from and synopsises a report to Waikato Regional Council\u2019s Future Proof Public Transport Committee at its meeting on 15 August 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Te Huia&#039;s five-year trial is fast coming towards its close on 30th June 2026. What needs to happen to make it a permanent part of Aotearoa&#039;s\/New Zealand<\/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-289533","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\/289533","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=289533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289534,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289533\/revisions\/289534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}