The number of people taking the bus in Nelson Tasman jumped by nearly 70% in the first month of the new service.
On August 1 the region’s new eBus service officially started, with more routes and buses every half hour between Richmond and Nelson between 7am and 7pm, seven days a week. New destinations include Wakefield, Motueka and the airport.
Now, Nelson City Council reported 68,000 trips in the service’s first month – an increase of 68% compared to the monthly average over the previous seven months on the old NBus service.
Use had continued to grow through the month, with a 16% increase from week one to week four – an increase of 675 journeys a day.
The new Motueka and Wakefield routes were also popular, with about 3000 journeys on the Motueka route in August.
