{"id":33146,"date":"2021-06-16T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T01:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/16\/auckland-transport-roads-cars-cycling-congestion-new-zealand"},"modified":"2021-06-16T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T01:10:35","slug":"people-have-an-over-attachment-to-their-cars-where-is-auckland-transport-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33146","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People have an over-attachment to their cars\u2019: where is Auckland transport going?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aucklanders are driving more than ever and it\u2019s bad for their health \u2013 but efforts to get them out of their cars are failing<\/p>\n<p>Auckland may have just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/09\/worlds-most-liveable-city-auckland-wins-as-covid-shakes-up-rankings\">won the title of world\u2019s most liveable city<\/a> thanks largely to New Zealand\u2019s Covid-free status, but it\u2019s not about to receive any traffic awards.<\/p>\n<p>Aucklanders drove an average of 1.6bn kilometres a year more in 2017 than they did in 2013. Half of peak-time trips are under six kilometres. New Zealand has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auckland.ac.nz\/en\/news\/2021\/02\/18\/nz-car-ownership-culture-cant-be-future.html\">fourth-highest per-capita car ownership<\/a> in the world and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transport.govt.nz\/\/assets\/Uploads\/Report\/The-Congestion-Question-Report.pdf\">Aucklanders own more cars per capita<\/a> than ever before.The most recent New Zealand Health Survey reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzta.govt.nz\/assets\/resources\/research\/reports\/675\/675-the-relationship-between-transport-and-mental-health-in-aotearoa.pdf\">83% of journeys to work were by car<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/16\/auckland-transport-roads-cars-cycling-congestion-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aucklanders are driving more than ever and it\u2019s bad for their health \u2013 but efforts to get them out of their cars are failingAuckland may have just won the title of world\u2019s most liveable city thanks largely to New Zealand\u2019s Covid-free status, but it\u2019s n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,858,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-auckland","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33147,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33146\/revisions\/33147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}