{"id":12025,"date":"2024-12-04T06:04:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12025"},"modified":"2024-12-04T06:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T17:04:18","slug":"auckland-transport-shake-up-theres-not-much-room-to-get-worse-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12025","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Transport shake-up: &#8216;There&#8217;s not much room to get worse&#8217; &#8211; mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland&#8217;s mayor is promising the shake-up of the city&#8217;s transport is great news for residents &#8211; but some are worried it is risky.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland Transport will be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/535549\/watch-regional-transport-policy-and-planning-returning-to-auckland-council\">stripped of its decision-making powers to focus on running public transport<\/a>, while a new Regional Transport Committee will tackle policy and planning.<\/p>\n<p>Just hours after the announcement, Aucklanders told RNZ the transport issues they wanted to see fixed as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The roads,&#8221; said one man. &#8220;They&#8217;re terrible, potholes, the surfacing is horrendous.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the speed needs to go back up to pre-Labour speed-limits,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cycle lanes, completely,&#8221; one woman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to cycle to work quite a lot, nowadays I just don&#8217;t risk it, because I used to be able to go early, got children now, have to go later, don&#8217;t want to face the traffic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The transition meant Auckland Transport would focus on delivering bus, train and ferry services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland&#8217;s mayor is promising the shake-up of the city&#8217;s transport is great news for residents &#8211; but some are worried it is risky. Auckland Transport will be\u00a0stripped of its decision-making powers to focus on running public transport, while a new Regional Transport Committee will tackle policy and planning. Just hours after the announcement, Aucklanders told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12027,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12025\/revisions\/12027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}