{"id":6170,"date":"2023-07-05T05:17:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T17:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2023-07-05T05:17:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T17:17:34","slug":"green-mp-demands-answers-from-government-about-waiheke-island-ferry-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6170","title":{"rendered":"Green MP demands answers from government about Waiheke Island ferry fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-sub-nav c-sub-nav--inline \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content__primary u-divider-bottom@until-medium\">\n<div class=\"article article-news article-news-493175\">\n<div class=\"article__body\">\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/s--Z7OnGcrp--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1654119937\/4LQX415_220531_Bridge_2_jpg\" alt=\"Chloe Swarbrick\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Green Party MP for Auckland Central Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is time &#8220;to get on with it&#8221; and bring the Waiheke ferry service under the public transport model to make it more affordable for commuters, the Greens&#8217; Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick says.<\/p>\n<p>Swarbrick represents Auckland Central, which Waiheke Island falls under, and has written to the newly appointed Transport Minister David Parker for an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after a price hike came into effect at the weekend, meaning passengers are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/493117\/fullers-raises-peak-hour-return-ticket-prices-for-waiheke-island-amid-fury\">now paying $59 for a return ticket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other public transport is subsidised &#8211; but Fullers has a carve out to run on a purely commercial basis to Waiheke Island.<\/p>\n<p>Swarbrick said it had been &#8220;far too long&#8221; that the service had remained unregulated and unsubsidised as all other public transport across the country was.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-play-controller c-play-controller--full-width u-blocklink\" data-uuid=\"02e8040f-8e43-4b0a-a14e-43c283b62bdc\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Party MP for Auckland Central Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone It is time &#8220;to get on with it&#8221; and bring the Waiheke ferry service under the public transport model to make it more affordable for commuters, the Greens&#8217; Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick says. Swarbrick represents Auckland Central, which Waiheke Island falls under, and has written to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6170","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\/6170","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=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6172,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions\/6172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}