Buses in Crisis

Buses in Crisis headlines with summaries.

• How emissions targets are ignored in Auckland transport plans

  New Zealand In Depth

  12 Apr 2023

  

  One council plan says transport emissions must come down by 50 percent. Other council plans make those cuts impossible.

  Bus cancellations risk ‘driving people back' to cars, trashing emissions targets

• What makes our buses so bad

  New Zealand In Depth

  11 Apr 2023

  

  There's plenty of blame to share around - including for ourselves, the public.

  Why are Auckland’s buses so routed?

• Bus 'reliability' statistics that are anything but reliable

  In Depth

  8 Apr 2023

  

  My bus showed up 34 percent of the time when it was supposed to. Why do official statistics say it's 98 percent punctual?

  The big problem with Auckland Transport’s bus reliability measures

• Who owns our buses?

  New Zealand In Depth

  6 Apr 2023

  

  The worst bus routes for cancellations in Auckland are operated by a bus company that's owned by a US private equity firm.

  Should offshore private equity companies be running our public transport buses?

• Why bus drivers keep quitting

  In Depth

  5 Apr 2023

  

  It's not unusual for drivers to work 14 hour days at little better than the minimum wage.

  Bus drivers keep quitting even as conditions and pay slowly improve

• Auckland's least reliable bus routes revealed

  In Depth

  5 Apr 2023

  

  See how your bus route ranks for regular cancellations.

  Auckland’s most cancelled bus routes

• Wellington's least reliable bus routes revealed

  In Depth

  6 Apr 2023

  

  See how your bus route ranks for regular cancellations.

  Wellington’s most cancelled bus routes

• Cancelled: Hundreds of ghost buses every day

  In Depth transport

  6 Apr 2023

  

  An RNZ investigation reveals the extraordinary scale of disruption bus commuters encounter every day.

  The 'crisis' of our urban bus networks: Hundreds of services cancelled every day

• Metlink's new Wellington bus cancellation data

  Buses in Crisis

  6 Apr 2023

  

  See how your bus route ranks for regular cancellations.

  Metlink says it has overstated the number of cancelled bus services in Wellington