{"id":923,"date":"2023-02-28T12:33:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T02:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=db11e7025bf5ac830b518899da5f49a5"},"modified":"2023-02-28T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T02:33:25","slug":"make-buses-better-to-combat-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"Make buses better to combat March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is March and with it we well and after a couple of years off due to the pandemic, our bus,train and ferry transport systems is well and truly in the midst of March Madness again. March Madness is where our demand on our entire transport system is typically at it\u2019s highest. The summer holidays are over and most people are back at work before starting to think about their next trip. Back too are schools and universities, the latter filled with eager students before the some decide that it just isn\u2019t for them and stop turning up. There also aren\u2019t the typical \u2018winter bugs\u2019 floating around keeping some people home. <\/p>\n<p>Even before the pandemic, public transport struggled in March with buses, trains and ferries often full to capacity, and sometimes leaving people behind. This year the demand for travel is seemingly returning but with bus driver and ferry operator shortages already resulting in thousands of services being cancelled weekly, as well as ongoing rail network disruption, there just isn\u2019t the capacity this year to cope with that demand. As Todd Niall at Stuff\u00a0reported the other day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is March and with it we well and after a couple of years off due to the pandemic, our bus,train and ferry transport systems is well and truly in the mi<\/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-923","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\/923","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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}