A plan to expand bus services in Whangarei has been thwarted by a nationwide driver shortage.A plan to expand bus services in Whangārei has been thwarted by a nationwide driver shortage. \
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Just 0.7% of Whangarei residents use a public bus to get to work, compared with 4.2% across New Zealand, according to the 2018 Census.
Buses on key Whangarei CityLink routes run every 30 to 60 minutes during the week, while no services in Northland run on Sundays.
But a plan to expand the bus services, particularly to cater for more school children, has been delayed for more than a year due to the driver shortage.
