{"id":927,"date":"2023-02-25T07:18:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=23ab2904bf1c8f9ca3c5a693101b04d4"},"modified":"2023-02-25T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:18:09","slug":"bus-cupboard-is-bare-as-march-madness-looms-for-aucklands-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Bus cupboard is bare as &#8216;March Madness&#8217; looms for Auckland&#8217;s public transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public transport users face perhaps their toughest-yet\u00a0\u201cMarch Madness\u201d peak\u00a0with Auckland Transport conceding it has no reserves available to deal with the traditional surge in patronage.<\/p>\n<p>The return of tertiary students and other factors has typically driven a spike of 1.5 million trips in March,\u00a0requiring AT to pull-in extra buses\u00a0to help cope with the surge which has left people at waiting at stops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are struggling, there is no (bus) surplus right now,\u201d said Richard Harrison, AT\u2019s metro optimisation manager, of the plight it faces.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0first March Madness peak since years of Covid-19 disruption\u00a0has collided with a shortage of around 380 bus drivers, and\u00a0two sections of the rail network being closed or constrained\u00a0by track work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public transport users face perhaps their toughest-yet\u00a0\u201cMarch Madness\u201d peak\u00a0with Auckland Transport conceding it has no reserves available to deal with the trad<\/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-927","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\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}