The Wellington region’s practice of replacing trains with buses on maintenance days is expected to be the norm for at least a decade, as the region works through a renewals backlog.
Buses replace trains during maintenance and renewal work, often on weekends and holiday periods and in evenings.
Metlink’s Fiona Abbott told a Greater Wellington Regional Council Transport Committee meeting Metlink is going to require bus replacements for trains “as part of our service offering for the foreseeable future.
“That timeframe that we’re talking about to rectify all the issues is 10 to 15 years,” Abbott told the committee.
Greater Wellington Regional Council chair Thomas Nash confirmed the timeframe of 10 to 15 years, “while all the work gets done on the tracks.”
