After an eight-year wait, a bus service is returning to serve a rural Kāpiti Coast village – but the stop will be almost four kilometres away.
A temporary bus stop for the 290 bus will be set up on old State Highway 1 near the old School Rd junction – 3.6km away from Te Horo Beach village residents – starting November 12.
Another temporary stop for nearby Peka Peka residents will be set up at Peka Peka Link Rd.
Until 2015, the old bus stop on Te Horo Beach Rd was Te Horo Beach’s only public transport option, but the Greater Wellington Regional Council axed it because the volume of traffic made it unsafe.
When the Peka Peka to Ōtaki Expressway opened last December, the bus took the new motorway, bypassing Te Horo and cutting off more than 1000 residents from Wellington’s public transport network.
