Wellington Commuter and Hutt Valley
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Wellington City and Lower Hutt Cheated by Public Transport Rates
- Wellington Commuter
- * Understanding the funding of bus and rail services is an essential part of understanding the value of spending $301M on bus and rail services to different parts of the Wellington Region * Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) collects about $70M in Transport Rates to help make up the difference between fares and bus/rail costs – but not all ratepayers are being charged equally.
- Accepted from Wellington Commuter feed by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- lower-hutt
- fares
Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, 5010, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Winners and losers from the Change in the GWRC Transport Rate
- Wellington Commuter
- The GWRC is changing how the Transport Rates that fund the regions PT service is allocated to ratepayers. They claim that this change means “Hutt Valley, South Wairarapa and Porirua pay a bit less toward public transport than they do now, while residents in Wellington city, Kāpiti and Masterton pay a bit more”.… Read more ...
- Accepted from Wellington Commuter feed by tonytw1
- Tagged as:
- hutt-valley
- porirua
- wairarapa
Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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