It’s tight times for public transport around the country. The government says Taranaki will get $22 million in public transport funding over the next 3 years– similar to current funding, if you take rising costs into account.
This shouldn’t mean all is lost for those who want more bus services: Taranaki’s thousand-something daily bus users and the many thousands more who’d use the buses if they were more frequent and direct.
Luckily, there’s a cool trick with public transport that can deliver radically better value for money.
Take a kooky, convoluted network like New Plymouth’s, and make bus routes more direct, out-and-back along the same roads and stick to main roads, unless other roads give more passenger access.
