The shortage of bus drivers is the “weakest link” in Government plans to reduce vehicle emissions by boosting public transport use. That’s according to Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency public transport manager Delany Myers.
Myers addressed the audience at the Bus and Coach Association Conference at Rotorua’s Energy Events Centre on Monday, telling them “the expectations for public transport have never been higher”.
She said Government wanted to see vehicle emissions reduced by 41 per cent by 2035, and that a shortage of drivers was “one of the biggest challenges we’ve got at the moment to achieving that target under the emissions plan”.
