https://wellington.gen.nz/buses+media Items tagged with Buses and Media. https://www.salient.org.nz/post/city-bus-service-blindspots-%C5%8Dwhiro-bay-residents-develop-killer-calves Ōwhiro Bay has been abandoned by the bus network, according to a new report. During off-peak times, it takes two buses and over 45 minutes to get from Ōwhiro Bay to the city centre. The suburb is disproportionately affected by bus cancellations. Its residents are fed up. Now, they’ve taken matters into their own hands, writing a twenty-thousand-word report to prove their own experience. Jack Graham and Arunan Noble are both Ōwhiro Bay residents and, in the spirit of full disclosure, friends of the author. They both live with their parents while studying at VUW. After many years of being disappointed by the bus system, hope was initially raised when Metlink announced incoming improvements at the start of 2024. buses owhiro-bay transport places media vuw education Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.salient.org.nz/post/city-bus-service-blindspots-%C5%8Dwhiro-bay-residents-develop-killer-calves Salient 2024-04-28T00:00:00Z -41.3407563 174.7591213 Owhiro Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=149034 The Regional Council has today given me the job of Transport Chair. My top priority is a reliable bus service and, to achieve that, I’ll have a laser-like focus on building up the driver workforce. I also want to make sure our transport network is accessible and affordable to everyone. At the same time as we fix these immediate problems, we also need to prepare Wellington for the future. I’ll be working to accelerate delivery of mass transit through the city so that as Wellington grows we can all get around smoothly, safely and in clean, low emission way buses transport media Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=149034 Wellington Scoop 2022-11-24T00:00:00Z https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=139484 buses transport media Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=139484 Wellington Scoop 2021-09-30T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=135715 Public transport is an essential public service. I am with the bus drivers. We, the public, are fed up with another bustastrophe. Bus drivers are essential workers who deserve to be treated well. They need priority recognition, fair and decent work conditions. Who of us can hang around waiting for a ‘job’ in a part time, split shift way, never quite knowing whether we will be home for tea, or working all weekend, or into the night, or whether our pay rate will be a decent one when we go the extra mile? That is not fair and will never make for a reliable service or sufficient numbers of drivers. What is more, we pay rates, taxes and fares so that we can have a reliable non polluting bus system. But we just do not have that. buses transport media Sat, 24 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=135715 Wellington Scoop 2021-04-24T00:00:00Z https://capitalmag.co.nz/2021/04/23/why-cant-wellington-have-fast-cheap-or-dependable-public-transport/ By Harriet PalmerFeatured in Capital #13Subscribe to get the real thing here. buses transport media Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://capitalmag.co.nz/2021/04/23/why-cant-wellington-have-fast-cheap-or-dependable-public-transport/ Capital Magazine 2021-04-23T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=135195 Passengers travelling on Metlink services operated by NZ Bus experienced almost 70 last-minute cancellations on Wednesday. Metlink General Manager Scott Gallacher said the recent service from NZ Bus simply wasn’t good enough. buses transport media Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=135195 Wellington Scoop 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=135095 buses transport media Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=135095 Wellington Scoop 2021-03-28T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=131895 Metlink describes several of its bus routes as “high frequency”, commonly defined as a bus every 15 minutes or better from first bus to last bus, every day of the week. With frequency like that, people don’t need a timetable: it’s turn up and go. buses transport media Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=131895 Wellington Scoop 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=129105 buses lgwm transport media Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=129105 Wellington Scoop 2020-06-25T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=127961 buses transport media Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=127961 Wellington Scoop 2020-05-12T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=80431 Will the latest developments in planning a new Wellington bus system provide the rapid transit that was originally promised? Our local bodies (the city council and the regional council, working with the Transport Agency) have chosen “two options” to be investigated for the development of “modern, faster public transport” for Wellington City. But the announcement reads as if they know nothing about the city’s layout. And as for cycleways, it’s obvious that till now these haven’t been given any consideration at all. buses bus-rapid-transit transport media Wed, 05 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=80431 Wellington Scoop 2015-08-05T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=73099 real-time-displays buses transport media Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=73099 Wellington Scoop 2014-11-21T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=60026 Bus Rapid Transit was to run between three interchanges, at the Railway Station, Wellington Regional Hospital and Kilbirnie. Now it looks too light for the job, which probably means light rail. light-rail buses trains transport media Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=60026 Wellington Scoop 2013-10-01T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=59015 It’s taken an audit and a court case to uncover flaws in the organisation of two big companies which provide important services to Wellingtonians. One of the companies has admitted it was at fault. The other one (“we’re not perfect”) is denying responsibility. buses transport media Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=59015 Wellington Scoop 2013-09-03T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=58964 “We’re not perfect,” says the CEO of NZ Bus, Zane Fulljames. This was after a second series of faults had been found in his Wellington buses. His words (for some reason they remind me of the last scene in Some Like It Hot) are being widely repeated. But it’s no joke. It’s the second time his company has been shown to be less than perfect. In May, there were four weeks of disruptions after his buses were pink-stickered because they were unsafe. Wasn’t everything supposed to have been fixed by now? buses transport media Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=58964 Wellington Scoop 2013-09-02T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=45459 The pedestrian crossings in Courtenay Place have always worked well without traffic lights, for cars as well as pedestrians. But not, according to bus drivers, for buses. buses transport media Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=45459 Wellington Scoop 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z -41.2940331293925 174.783834481334 Courtenay Place, Mt. Victoria, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=42436 Now that all the money has been spent to make the CBD friendlier and faster for buses (and less attractive for pedestrians) the Regional Council has discovered that the result is: congestion. “At least 140 buses per hour in the morning and evening peak,” Councillor Glensor told us on Monday. “Resulting in significant jams and delays,” said Councillor Ponter five days earlier. The council has also acknowledged, belatedly, that there are huge inefficiencies along the Golden Mile, caused by duplication of routes. And it has finally accepted what the rest of us have been seeing for months – what it delicately describes as the bunching effect of buses, particularly at Willis and Manners Streets. (Manners Street – where we were told that all problems would be fixed when buses were given priority.) transport regional-council buses consultation government media Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=42436 Wellington Scoop 2012-02-16T00:00:00Z