All across Aotearoa New Zealand, the problem is the same: public transport services don\u2019t run often enough. Despite much improvement even\u00a0Auckland\u2019s bus frequency isn\u2019t there yet, with nearly half the population without services that run every 20 minutes or less. Meanwhile, a recent\u00a0examination of public transport in our small-to-medium cities\u00a0found most didn\u2019t meet minimum frequencies recommended for network-oriented planning. (The few that did, like Queenstown, had seen significant passenger growth.)<\/p>\n
If bus frequency is a cause for concern, our inter-regional train timetables are frankly embarrassing. One weekday return service on the Capital Connection (Palmerston North-Wellington) and two on Te Huia (Hamilton-Auckland) \u2013 seriously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All across Aotearoa New Zealand, the problem is the same: public transport services don\u2019t run often enough. Despite much improvement even\u00a0Auckland\u2019s bus frequen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t