{"id":80888,"date":"2024-07-04T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=c9be22bcf7a62676d957831b35ea4cfc"},"modified":"2024-07-04T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T20:00:05","slug":"why-nz-needs-to-invest-properly-in-rail-and-ferry-infrastructure-for-the-public-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=80888","title":{"rendered":"Why NZ needs to invest properly in rail and ferry infrastructure, for the public good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fixing New Zealand\u2019s rail and ferry infrastructure is becoming the most significant political issue of this year. Having cancelled KiwiRail\u2019s Cook Strait ferry and portside upgrade programme in December without first establishing a Plan B, Finance Minister Nicola Willis has since been grappling, alongside her colleagues and officials, to find a cheaper way forward.<\/p>\n<p>The signs are now that the cost savings might prove elusive, resulting in much inferior ferry and rail infrastructure. If so, Willis\u2019 ferry cancelling call might have been a monumental mistake, leaving New Zealand again tinkering and underinvesting in critical infrastructure. This could be an outcome that satisfies KiwiRail\u2019s rival trucking industry but is terrible for almost everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fixing New Zealand\u2019s rail and ferry infrastructure is becoming the most significant political issue of this year. Having cancelled KiwiRail\u2019s Cook Strait ferry<\/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-80888","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\/80888","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=80888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81049,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80888\/revisions\/81049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}