With light rail off the table, bus lanes will be Wellington’s new best friend in terms of public transport improvements.
On Sunday a joint statement from ministers Simeon Brown and Chris Bishop, Wellington mayor Tory Whanau and Greater Wellington chairperson Daran Ponter closed out seven years of Let’s Get Wellington Moving and signalled the demise of the mass rapid transit corridor to Island Bay.
Ponter said the “marriage disolution” would need to be formalised, likely sometime in February.
Regional councillor Thomas Nash said the new bus priority corridors would allow Greater Wellington to “go big on buses”. While he still believed light rail was the right solution, the regional council would work with the cards it had been dealt.
