{"id":46311,"date":"2024-05-17T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=d01d8dd8aac4a656acefc8fce8335f41"},"modified":"2024-05-17T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T01:30:31","slug":"te-huia-train-funding-will-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=46311","title":{"rendered":"Te Huia train funding will continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Te Huia train service between Hamiton and Auckland will continue to receive funding from the New Zealand Transport Agency &#8211; albeit at a reduced level &#8211; enabling it to carry on with its five year trial.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a decision that will gladden the hearts of Te Huia supporters.<\/p>\n<p>A reduction in the percentage of NZTA\u2019s share of net costs may also appease service critics somewhat.<\/p>\n<p>But it will mean higher costs for local councils during tight financial times meaning service cuts can\u2019t be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>NZTA\u2019s board met on Thursday to consider the fate of its Te Huia funding beyond June this year after a review of two years service, and the decision was announced Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Te Huia train service between Hamiton and Auckland will continue to receive funding from the New Zealand Transport Agency &#8211; albeit at a reduced level &#8211; enab<\/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-46311","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\/46311","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=46311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46312,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46311\/revisions\/46312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}