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New bus shelters are being added to approximately 140 bus stops across Tauranga city over the next 18 months to provide seating, weather protection, and increased safety and security for bus passengers.
Tauranga City Council is upgrading the stops to make it easier and more pleasant for people to use city bus services.
Director of Transport Brendan Bisley says public transport is essential to cater for Tauranga's growth by providing people with more convenient commuting options.
He says it also helps people who can't drive, such as the elderly, young people and people with disabilities, to get involved in social and economic activities around Tauranga.
'A local rest home manager told us recently that residents had been asking for a bench at the bus stop on their stretch of road, so they were very pleased to see Council adding a new bus shelter.”
Some of the areas to benefit from these new shelters include Pāpāmoa, Mount Maunganui, Pyes Pā, Welcome Bay, the Avenues, Gate Pā, city centre, Ōtūmoetai and Bethlehem.
16 comments
Bus shelters for the Homeless
Posted on 07-01-2023 10:07 | By Bill S
140 new shelterswow. I don,t think the Director of Transport Brendan Bisley has not a clue what he is doing. There are a small number of people that do rely on the buses , the proof is the pathetic patronage . There must be better way to sort out this problem. In the mean time TCC and it,s ratepayers are wasting millions of dollars supporting a bus service that,s never going to work in Tauranga.
140 magnets
Posted on 07-01-2023 10:42 | By Slim Shady
They will attract a whole host of criminality.
Ok
Posted on 07-01-2023 11:52 | By Kancho
Well being not very mobile seats and shelter are good but really less important than time it takes to go places. None of the bus routes work very well for me unless I have lots of time and patience. Two buses an hour is ok if they are on time I can deal with. The problem is transfering buses don't seem to co ordinate . A typical trip to the hospital used to be direct in less than fifteen minutes , so wait five to catch ergo twenty minutes quite acceptable. Now the same trip can take forty five minutes or more . So reluctantly still the car is the best option even with parking problems at the hospital. One trip the bus didn't show up so well over an hour and a quarter to get home again . Useless for shopping
Excellent!
Posted on 07-01-2023 12:53 | By Bruja
The more we can attract people to public transport the better. The fact is that if we don't 'address' the automobile problem we are all going to hell in a handcart. If they attract criminals, then we sort the criminals. If they attract the homeless, then we sort the homelessness.
here we
Posted on 07-01-2023 13:01 | By old trucker
go again, BRAND NEW bus stops, there are a section full of old ones on Newton street That could have been used, but NO brand new ones in flat pack being put up,what a waste of money,a stop right near 15th and cameron rd ,what a silly place to put one and then nearly every block,it would not hurt people to walk a while,and having stops outside of a Business is stupid,anyway Bisley does not care about us,my pennies worth,Sunlive THANK YOU,10-4 OUT.PHEW.
@Bill s
Posted on 07-01-2023 13:18 | By Kancho
I want it to work but clearly it doesn't and the way they are going probably never will. The previous contractor and previous bus route Number 1 suited everything I wanted so the current situation is worse to not useable for me. I would love me to leave the car at home when possible but not the way the system (doesn't) works
more waste
Posted on 07-01-2023 14:10 | By terry hall
the bus stop on castlewold drive has been vandalized a long time ago about a year ago the windows smashed and the rest graffite still the same today, also the buses go past all day empty round and round not a passenger in site its a total mickey mouse.
Information
Posted on 07-01-2023 14:27 | By Johnney
I use buses all the time when travelling overseas. All bus stops have important information like timetables and route information. I note our bus stop have nothing. Not a lot to ask for or expect if run professionally.
Long overdue
Posted on 07-01-2023 17:14 | By Informed
Given all the people I see standing in the rain waiting for buses when I bike past (and my poor kids). This is long overdue. Great work. Of course it wouldn’t be Sunlive without the angry few having a moan about it.
No rights!
Posted on 07-01-2023 19:32 | By Nanas blog
Try being told one of them is going outside your property and even though we opposed it, we have no rights! No choice... it's happening. Some Act from 1974 rules their decision. Bet they wouldn't want one outside their property. We the home owners and rate payers have no say.. it's absolutely bulls###
Back At Yer
Posted on 07-01-2023 21:43 | By Mommatum
Bill S, because while a bus service is never going to work for you I am one of those people who can’t drive (and trust me you would not want me on the road) and rely on buses to get around. I cannot understand why ratepayers resent paying for public transport? Rates and taxes pay for a variety of things that some people never use, but that’s no reason to begrudge those who do. After all if there was no bus service tomorrow I couldn’t imagine you volunteering to give lifts to the likes of Me.
For What?
Posted on 08-01-2023 07:12 | By Thats Nice
You can push as hard as you want Council. We simply don't have the population and infrastructure to have a successful public transport system. Pushbikes aren't for everyone regardless of how many bus shelters you build with our money. They're going to get vandalized anyway.
Ratepayers
Posted on 08-01-2023 10:12 | By Kancho
I have no objections to pay for buses as it is necessary for many who have no option. Like all taxes much is spent on services that many would never use. However buses would need to be a much more connected system and reliability to be an attractive option and not just a last resort.
Kancho nailed it.
Posted on 08-01-2023 13:30 | By morepork
It isn't about being "anti-bus"; common sense tells us we need public transport as well as private. The problem is that they bought the "wrong" buses (far too big for our roads) and they are still stuck in the idea of fixed routes with fixed stops and fixed schedules. There are MUCH better solutions available but they prefer to do the same old, same old, and spend far more than we would like on it.
@informed
Posted on 08-01-2023 19:03 | By Slim Shady
I think you’ve got confused. The “few” is the number of people who use buses, let alone need a vandalised bus stop. The many are the complainers, mostly to themselves. People on here are representing yo.
@Mommatum
Posted on 09-01-2023 11:24 | By morepork
You make a fair point and it is a recurring theme here. If you want to live in a Community, then you must expect that SOME of your contribution (Rates?) will go to things in which you have no personal interest (Buses?). Most reasonable people understand and accept this, but there are some who expect their contribution to only be used for them. Like others here, I am not "anti-bus" ; I am anti-waste-and-shortsighted-planning-stupidity. Time and again we see our money being used for grandiose projects we were never asked about, have no say in, and watch costs escalate on. There is a Victorian mindset and it is as if the 21st century has bypassed TCC. A modern bus transport system would cost far less and deliver far more than the buffalo buses that thunder around our streets, blocking traffic flow and getting few people anywhere.
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