{"id":881,"date":"2023-04-03T06:38:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T20:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=62ac41cf6fd5593427efd883d4b7d473"},"modified":"2023-04-03T06:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T20:38:52","slug":"ghost-buses-in-auckland-and-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Ghost buses in Auckland and Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an average weekday last month in February, 1085 Auckland buses listed in timetables failed to show up.<\/p>\n<p>In Wellington, an average of 448 daily cancellations left passengers stranded.<\/p>\n<p>The data, revealed in an RNZ investigation launched today, is evidence of urban bus networks in crisis, according to critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry that the bus system is not delivering for everybody in the way we want it to,\u201d said Wellington Regional Council\u2019s transport chair Thomas Nash. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nRNZ\u2019s probe of bus services covered every service in Auckland and Wellington on every weekday in February. We removed the data for two days in Auckland where widespread flooding had a big impact on services, and for both centres on Waitangi Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an average weekday last month in February, 1085 Auckland buses listed in timetables failed to show up. In Wellington, an average of 448 daily cancellations l<\/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-881","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\/881","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=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}