Users of Timaru’s Link bus service will soon have to move to the regional council’s on-demand service after a decision to scrap the former service from February.
Environment Canterbury general manager public transport, Stewart Gibbon, said the council has found the Link service to no longer be sustainable following the “successful introduction of on-demand public transport” service MyWay.
“The Link represents the end of an era, as Timaru’s last remaining fixed-route bus service. Our three other routes were replaced in June 2020 by the on-demand service.
“Now, with our community accustomed to using on-demand public transport, so few people are using the Link that it is clearly no longer sustainable as a service,” Gibbon said.
