{"id":947,"date":"2023-02-14T05:18:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=33455212b5d13a89afa8aa353517c7fb"},"modified":"2023-02-14T05:18:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:18:37","slug":"timaru-link-bus-service-replaced-by-myway-on-demand-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"Timaru Link bus service replaced by MyWay On Demand Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the end of an era as Timaru\u2019s Link bus service will run its last loop on Friday before being replaced by the regional council\u2019s on-demand service.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canterbury\u2019s community transport advisor Jess Pauling announced the Link service would be finishing on Friday and three new super low-floor MyWay vehicles will hit the roads on February 20.<\/p>\n<p>In November, ECan announced its decision to stop the link service,\u00a0Timaru\u2019s last remaining fixed-route bus service, finding it was no longer sustainable after the successful introduction of MyWay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Link represents the end of an era, as Timaru\u2019s last remaining fixed-route bus service. Our three other routes were replaced in June 2020 by the on-demand service,\u201d Ecan general manager public transport Stewart Gibbon had said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&amp;#39;s the end of an era as Timaru\u2019s Link bus service will run its last loop on Friday before being replaced by the regional council\u2019s on-demand service. Envi<\/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-947","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\/947","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=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}