Fare capping is coming for Wellington as new data shows that the capital, by one measure, is second only to Beijing in China for public transport affordability.
But that same data also shows, using another measure, that Wellington is only the 24th cheapest, putting the city’s public transport costs between Sydney in Australia and Taipei, Taiwan.
The difference, in the NineSquared Fares Benchmarking report, is comparing public transport costs for the lowest priced single ticket and how long people have to work on minimum and average wages to pay for it, then the same for a 15km journey – roughly the equivalent of driving from the Wellington railway station to Woburn in Lower Hutt.
