{"id":10884,"date":"2021-09-15T19:16:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=10884"},"modified":"2021-09-15T19:16:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:16:30","slug":"road-maintenance-funding-pledge-for-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/road-maintenance-funding-pledge-for-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Road maintenance funding pledge for New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AA in New Zealand has welcomed the Government\u2019s decision to provide additional funding to revitalise road maintenance across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The money has been pledged after the Minister of Transport acknowledged in a National Land Transport funding announcement that the Government was concerned about roads deteriorating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell maintained roads are safer roads \u2013 the extra investment will bring safety benefits now and in the future,\u201d said AA Motoring Affairs General Manager Mike Noon.<\/p>\n<p>For the last four years, AA members have ranked \u201croad surface quality (e.g. potholes)\u201d as their greatest transport concern in annual surveys. This issue ranked ahead of other transport concerns like congestion, speed, parking, and road policing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AA in New Zealand has welcomed the Government\u2019s decision to provide additional funding to revitalise road maintenance across the country. The money has been pledged after the Minister of Transport acknowledged in a National Land Transport funding announcement that the Government was concerned about roads deteriorating. \u201cWell maintained roads are safer roads \u2013 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":10885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}