{"id":579,"date":"2024-01-01T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=5187d23b5a77e68d2adf21841cf8eb79"},"modified":"2024-01-01T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T20:00:11","slug":"huge-existential-threat-for-new-zealands-rail-network-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Huge Existential Threat For New Zealand\u2019s Rail Network \u2013 Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure the cancellation of the Interisland Project IREX has come as a big shock to many \u2013 but really is it such a shock? The writing was on the wall many weeks ago it seems.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear I think it is a major misstep to cancel it \u2013 wouldn\u2019t it have been better for a pause for at least a few weeks to see more of what could be salvaged. As it stands it is a major threat to the future of interisland rail freight on the Auckland to Christchurch corridor and as a result of that also to the very North Island Main Trunk itself and the Main North Line from Picton to Christchurch \u2013 can it survive without RoRo rail ferries?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure the cancellation of the Interisland Project IREX has come as a big shock to many \u2013 but really is it such a shock? The writing was on the wall many wee<\/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-579","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\/579","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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}