{"id":801,"date":"2023-06-05T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T23:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=e8bb9cbc811345a3989a843ba562fb9c"},"modified":"2023-06-05T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T23:11:20","slug":"more-people-catching-the-bus-in-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"More people catching the bus in Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More people are catching the bus than ever before in Nelson, with bus use soaring above pre-Covid levels.<\/p>\n<p>In March 49,211 people journeyed on a bus in Nelson, a 20% increase above March 2019 figures.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson City Council group manager infrastructure Alec Louverdis said numbers took a dip during the thick of the pandemic, dropping again when mask use was made compulsory on public transport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut coming out the other side of it, we\u2019ve seen consistent increases in people using public transport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rise was probably tied to the rising cost of living, and was timely given the changes coming to the bus service, Louverdis said.<\/p>\n<p>The new network launching on August 1 will have new routes and more regular journeys. Currently, 35,200 people live within a 10-minute walk of a bus stop. From August, with the service extending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people are catching the bus than ever before in Nelson, with bus use soaring above pre-Covid levels. In March 49,211 people journeyed on a bus in Nelson, 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-801","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\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}