Aucklanders may get unlimited bus and train travel for $29 a week in a trial proposed by the city’s transport agency.
The trial is a sweetener in a bundle of fare rises that has been postponed until later in the year, and includes increases of 7-8% for most passengers.
Auckland Transport (AT) announced on February 4 it would delay the increases due to the weather emergency, and this also followed the government’s February 1 decision to extend half-price fares to the end of June.
The $29 a week deal was pitched as a four-month trial, with a forecast that it could generate nearly 4 million additional public transport trips in that time, including bus, train and inner-harbour ferry trips.
