Bus patronage in Canterbury continues to outstrip pre-Covid levels, surpassing more than 1 million trips in a month.
However, passengers complain buses are notoriously unreliable – and Christchurch’s public transport usage remains relatively low, with Wellingtonians taking nearly three times more public transport trips.
From July 2023 to March this year, bus patronage was up 7% on pre-Covid numbers, while March patronage was 10.5% up on March 2019, Gibbon said.
Environment Canterbury (ECan) says 96% of bus trips from last July to March were on time, defined as starting between one minute before and five minutes after the scheduled departure.
