Metlink’s on-demand bus that runs through Tawa, Kenepuru and Porirua city centre is set to be scrapped when its trial finishes at the end of this year..
A local resident was “devastated” at the potential closure while the local community board had begun petitioning Greater Wellington Regional Council to continue the service, but the council’s chairperson Daran Ponter said the bus was expensive and inefficient to run.
Introduced to Tawa in May 2022 and further extended to cenral Porirua in June 2023, the bus does not run on fixed timetables or routes. Passengers instead book rides between flexible pick-up and drop-off “virtual stops” to places such as Redwood and Linden train stations or Tawa’s main street through an app.
