{"id":867,"date":"2023-04-14T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=f9875058c41cba00bf856433e041921b"},"modified":"2023-04-14T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T03:00:50","slug":"council-buys-new-buses-and-ticket-machines-but-lack-of-drivers-foils-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Council buys new buses and ticket machines but lack of drivers foils plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plan to expand bus services in Whangarei has been thwarted by a nationwide driver shortage.A plan to expand bus services in Whang\u0101rei has been thwarted by a nationwide driver shortage. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nJust 0.7% of  Whangarei residents use a public bus to get to work, compared with 4.2% across New Zealand, according to the 2018 Census.<\/p>\n<p>Buses on key  Whangarei CityLink routes run every 30 to 60 minutes during the week, while no services in Northland run on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>But a plan to expand the bus services, particularly to cater for more school children, has been delayed for more than a year due to the driver shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plan to expand bus services in Whangarei has been thwarted by a nationwide driver shortage.A plan to expand bus services in Whang\u0101rei has been thwarted by a n<\/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-867","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\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}