On the odd day that Jo Clendon works from home, she misses her commute.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gets my brain up and running by having some movement and some blood flow,\u201d she says of the 35-minute trip by e-bike from her home in Lower Hutt to the Wellington CBD office where she works in IT four days a week.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in greater Wellington, 53% of workers commuted by car, truck or van in 2023 \u2013 significantly down on the 2018 figure of 58% and the lowest proportion of any region.<\/p>\n
In Auckland and Canterbury, 69% and 72% of commuters travelled to work by car, the statistics showed.<\/p>\n
Some of the shift away from cars could be attributed to an increase in the proportion of people working from home (it doubled in Wellington from 9% to 19% and rose from 12% to 18% across Aotearoa).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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