60% drop in eBus use by children since subsidy scrapped

Nelson-Tasman’s “wildly successful” eBus service is now a year old and has seen a doubling of patronage.

However, government subsidies allowing free travel for children under 13 and half-price fares for teenagers ended on May 1, leading to an almost 60% drop in the number of young passengers in the following month.

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