n its new Long-Term Plan, New Plymouth District Council (NPDC) committed $200,000 a year for a three-year high-frequency bus trial.
District councils didn’t always help fund public transport, but it’s becoming common New Zealand-wide.
You might wonder why a city with modest public transport use like New Plymouth should have a high-frequency bus.
In fact, frequency is how you get more people on board, as New Zealand urban areas of all sizes can attest, from Queenstown to Waiheke Island to Hamilton.
High-frequency means a bus ideally every 15 minutes or more often (at a stretch, every 20 minutes), consistently, all day.
