Wellington has traditionally had the best developed and most used public transport network in Aotearoa. As at the 2018 Census, 18% of workers and 21.7% of students used public transport to get to travel to work or study compared to the national average of 6.4% of workers and 19% of students
Wellington has also traditonally been the only city in Aotearoa to have sustained investment in urban rail in the 20th Century. 1937 saw the Tawa Deviation opened as a much faster route north from the capital as well as the opening of the new Wellington Railway Station. In 1938, the Johnsonville Line was electrified and new rolling stock introduced, while two years later in 1940, the Kāpiti line was electrified as far as Paekākāriki.
