{"id":699,"date":"2023-09-11T06:32:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T20:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=4a713a6b475d9ce677e0a9d6b73f4457"},"modified":"2023-09-11T06:32:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T20:32:45","slug":"how-whanganui-could-be-linked-to-passenger-rail-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"How Whanganui could be linked to passenger rail services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public transport advocate Anthonie Tonnon wants to see more buses linking Whanganui passengers to stops on the Capital Connection rail service, which currently runs between Palmerston North and Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be fastest and most affordable if buses were used in the first instance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLonger bus routes able to offer services across the Horizons region could be inclusive of the smaller towns that don\u2019t have the populations to warrant a separate service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tonnon, who is the Whanganui representative on Horizons Regional Council\u2019s passenger transport committee, presented his proposal to members last week, and was urging people who want to have a say to complete the Connect the Dots survey which opened on August 1 and closes on Monday, September 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public transport advocate Anthonie Tonnon wants to see more buses linking Whanganui passengers to stops on the Capital Connection rail service, which currently<\/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-699","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\/699","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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}