The party said the policy would cost about $65 million per year and it would be funded from the National Land Transport Fund.<\/p>\n
Labour\u2019s policy document stated the cost was \u201cless than 1% of the National Land Transport Fund\u201d. It did not expand on where that funding would be redirected from.<\/p>\n
The weekly price cap didn\u2019t apply to some inter-regional travel, such as the Te Huia train between Hamilton and Auckland, the Capital Connection train between Palmerston North and Wellington, the Mainlander train in Christchurch and InterCity buses.<\/p>\n
Not all ferries were included. The policy document identified Wellington\u2019s East-By-West, Lyttelton\u2019s Diamond Harbour ferry and Auckland\u2019s inner-harbour ferries as included.<\/p>\n
It also noted \u201ccash-only\u201d bus services like those in Marlborough wouldn\u2019t be included as they didn\u2019t have the capacity to implement card-based fare caps.<\/p>\n
The document said most existing payment systems supported a weekly fixed fare but the card or app used would differ based on what part of the country people lived in.<\/p>\n
It argued public transport networks could cope with increased demand, claiming networks across main centres had \u201cadditional capacity, particularly offpeak and on routes\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur fare cap is a major cost-of-living commitment designed to put money back into the pockets of commuters, students and families,\u201d Hipkins said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Labour transport spokesman Tangi Utikere was concerned people were getting \u201cpriced out\u201d of using public transport.<\/p>\n
\u201cFamilies deserve certainty. Under Labour\u2019s weekly fare cap, people will know exactly what the maximum cost of getting around will be each week.\u201d<\/p>\n
National leader Christopher Luxon will likely react to the policy when he speaks to media from Fieldays in Mystery Creek, Waikato.<\/p>\n
Adam Pearse is the Deputy Political Editor and part of the NZ Herald\u2019s Press Gallery team based at Parliament in Wellington. He has worked for NZME since 2018, reporting for the Northern Advocate in Whang\u0101rei and the Herald in Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The party said the policy would cost about $65 million per year and it would be funded from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2327,2840,95,22509,1975,51,5195,50372,4487,802,2841,2082,266,6721,111,43,139,69,193,148267,3109,112,8238,6041,52,6730],"class_list":["post-469294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2327","tag-across","tag-and","tag-areas","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-be","tag-capped","tag-christchurch","tag-costs","tag-country","tag-for","tag-government","tag-labour","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-other","tag-pledging","tag-public","tag-transport","tag-under","tag-weekly","tag-wellington","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}