Fares and Government
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Greater Wellington to consider extending half price fares
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington will consider extending half price fares while it works towards implementing age-based public transport discounts announced on 18 May in Budget 2023. The discounts, which let children under-13 ride for free, and under 25-year-olds at half price, can be introduced by Public Transport Authorities, when possible, from 1 July.
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First public transport fare rise in two years balances inflationary costs and affordability
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington will increase standard public transport fares across the region by 6% following a decision at Council today on its Annual Fares Review (AFR). Despite the patronage and farebox challenges of COVID-19, funding efforts to reduce the national driver shortages and high inflation impacting service costs, the regional council has not raised public transport fares during the last two years.
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Greater Wellington calls for community views on public transport fares
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Public consultation on the Future Fares Review is open and Greater Wellington wants the community’s views on changes to our region’s public transport fares. Greater Wellington’s Transport Committee Chair Roger Blakeley says, “one of our strategic priorities outlined in the Regional Public Transport Plan 2021 is to increase mode shift. The new fare types and potential zoning changes have real potential to encourage people out of their cars and onto public transport.”
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Metlink: Future Fares Review
- Greater Wellington Regional Council Have Your Say
- We're seeking your views on the future direction of Metlink fares. Please share your feedback by 5pm Friday 15 July 2022. This feedback will be used to improve, and enhance the way we structure and charge fares for the services we provide.
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Greater Wellington welcomes Auckland half price fare trial for community services card holders
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington has welcomed news of an Auckland trial which will see around 200,000 community services card holders receive half price fares on public transport.
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Council agrees a 1.5% fare increase to maintain Metlink services following one year funding freeze
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Fares on Metlink services across the region will be increasing in line with inflation from February 2021 following a decision at council today.
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Cheaper bus fares for off-peak travellers
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council today agreed to an earlybird off-peak bus fare trial, making travel cheaper for morning commuters.
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Public meetings on proposed transport fare changes begin next week
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council is about to hold eight public meetings throughout the region over the proposed changes to public transport fares.
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Greater Wellington proposes better Metlink fares
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council is seeking public feedback on a proposal for fare concessions and changes aimed at encouraging off-peak public transport use, helping disadvantaged groups and paving the way for improvements to the city’s bus network.
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Cheaper weekend bus fares for Christmas!
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- With fares starting as low as $1, Greater Wellington Regional Council and Wellington City Council are again teaming up and offering Wellington shoppers cheaper weekend bus fares in the lead-up to Christmas.
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No public transport fare increase proposed for next year
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council is proposing not to increase public transport fares next financial year.
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Cheaper weekend Wellington City bus fares for Christmas
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Wellingtonians can look forward to cheaper weekend bus fares for four weeks from 28 November.
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Draft 10 Year Plan includes fare freeze for 2015/16
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Draft 10 Year Plan includes fare freeze for 2015/16 Greater Wellington Regional Council today voted to continue its public transport fare freeze for another year, including it into its Draft 10 Year Plan.
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Public transport fare changes
- WCC Watch
- Greater Wellington Regional Council has ignored the campaign for fairer fares for tertiary students as it drafted a new fare structure for all bus, rail and ferry trips.
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Aitken Angst
- WCC Watch
- We got a rare insight into Greater Wellington Regional Council-Wellington City Council dynamics when regional councillor Judith Aitken posted this odd statement on Celia Wade-Brown’s Facebook about her (last time I checked, fellow Labour Party) colleague Daran Ponter: This prompted the following stinging rebuke from Daran Ponter and Wellington City councillor Paul Eagle: Good on Ponter for calling her out. Oh, Baby Boomer with a 100% subsided Gold Card, please tell me more about how we can’t increase public transport subsidies. This is staggering. If you’re a Regional Councillor, you would need to have been hiding under a rock for the past few years not to be aware of the issues around public transport. And you’d expect someone who has been on the GWRC since 2001 to already be discussing issues with their WCC colleagues and community stakeholders. Aitken doesn’t even live in the constituency area she is elected to represent (Wellington City), enjoys fully subsidised public transport with her tax-payer funded Gold Card, and is one of those local government shapeshifters, like Helene Ritchie, who get elected to both a council and a health board purely on name recognition, then aren’t in a hurry to leave anytime soon. She should retire and let a new, fresh, and forward thinking person take her seat and actually represent Wellington City. They deserve better.
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All aboard?
- WCC Watch
- It seems a student campaign pushing for tertiary student concession fares on public transport is hitting a nerve.
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Wellington PT Fare Structure Review
- Auckland Trains
- Greater Wellington Regional Council is about to begin a review of how bus, train and harbour ferry fares are calculated. Peter Glensor, Chair of Greater Wellington’s Economic Wellbeing Committee, says the review will look at how fares are calculated now and will explore changes and alternatives.
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Snapper for trains?
- WCC Watch
- Very interesting revelation in today’s Dom Post that the GWRC is missing out on about $9,000 in train fares every weekday because the trains are too crowded for ticket collectors to get to the patrons… It was revealed today that Greater Wellington regional council has lost about $260,000 as overcrowding on trains prevents staff from collecting fares.
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Rising Prices, Poverty and Peak Oil
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Come and hear about - bus fare increases - GST - child poverty - Peak Oil and say what you think we should do about these problems. Newtown Hall (Cnr Constable and Daniell Streets, Newtown) 10am Saturday 7 June There will be light refreshments afterwards. Issued by Campaign Against Rising Prices
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