{"id":603,"date":"2023-12-13T04:17:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T18:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=fce653b54d05f58d76708bd544932eba"},"modified":"2023-12-13T04:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T18:17:58","slug":"big-response-to-better-travel-choices-for-taranaki-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Big response to better travel choices for Taranaki strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public transport has been topical in Taranaki recently, with many in our community calling for a different and better way of doing things.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a long-overdue and important k\u014drero that frankly, we\u2019re delighted to see happening.<\/p>\n<p>We all agree change is needed, the question is what that change looks like and how it\u2019s funded.<\/p>\n<p>Taranaki Regional Council is responsible for public transport in our region, operating the Citylink, Connector, Southlink and most school bus services.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a busy year for staff working in public transport, launching the real-time bus tracker Transit app, introducing new services, implementing changing Government directives on free and half-price fares and improving timetables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public transport has been topical in Taranaki recently, with many in our community calling for a different and better way of doing things. It\u2019s a long-overdue a<\/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-603","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\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}