On an average weekday last month in February, 1085 Auckland buses listed in timetables failed to show up.
In Wellington, an average of 448 daily cancellations left passengers stranded.
The data, revealed in an RNZ investigation launched today, is evidence of urban bus networks in crisis, according to critics.
“I’m sorry that the bus system is not delivering for everybody in the way we want it to,” said Wellington Regional Council’s transport chair Thomas Nash. \
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RNZ’s probe of bus services covered every service in Auckland and Wellington on every weekday in February. We removed the data for two days in Auckland where widespread flooding had a big impact on services, and for both centres on Waitangi Day.
