Is that comment connected to this article? You only had to see the bus driver’s faces and put yourself in their shoes in an emergency dash to the burbs to know it would help ease what they have to go through.On June 23, hundreds of NZ Bus drivers in Wellington voted to reject a sellout deal hatched between the company and the Tramways Union. Rail can get people out of the cbd faster than other modes.
To repeat an earlier comment, after being stuck in the great traffic jam out of the city during the recent storm, it made me realise that rail should be the last service to go down, not the first. Unfortunately, we tend to have very ‘hands-off’ leadership and I think if it was made part of a role to catch PT maybe once a week as a peak-time commuter, it would help get the right services established and delivered.ģ. Ditto, those at AT who manage the managers. In an average world (not even perfect) senior management of any kind of PT company should experience the mode they manage.
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The article is all about pay, but I saw on tv last night that the trialled safety screens for drivers is also close to being rolled-out and that’s great news, too.Ģ. Now if we could just get AT rolling out more bus lanes and other improvements, we might just get back to 100% sooner than we thought.ġ. This year average weekday bus ridership has largely been at or over 80% of the same time pre-COVID, which is somewhat impressive given how appalling the service has been. Though there are probably still some shortages with other operatorsĪnd we’re going to need it too. This is fantastic news and combined with the government’s budget announcement of $140 million to restore public transport services that had been cut in the wake of the pandemic, it could mean we see bus services largely back to normal soon. “Fortunately, all the authorities we work with, such as Waka Kotahi and VTNZ, are mindful of the need to get bus drivers on the road and have been very helpful.” “Training, of course, is super important, and getting all the licences and permits sorted can take some time. The company will ensure all drivers coming from overseas have their accommodation, banking, tax and transport needs met until they have a chance to make their own arrangements, he said. Haslop said that since November, Kinetic had recruited 327 drivers for Auckland, 82 for Wellington, 57 for Tauranga, 31 for Hamilton, 50 for Christchurch and 12 for Dunedin. “In order to achieve this we need to reinstate suspended services as well as significantly reducing the volume of unplanned cancellations,” Harrison said.
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He isn’t expecting to be back at full capacity until September. “We’ve made a large investment to bring in drivers quickly from the Philippines, India and Fiji to supplement our local recruitment endeavours,” Haslop said.Īuckland Transport’s Richard Harrison said the deficit of drivers had halved from its peak of 570 drivers to 295 today.
“Through the enormous efforts of our Auckland recruitment teams, we have recruited enough drivers to enable a return to full services over the coming weeks.
Haslop said the two companies had spent the last six months conducting a campaign that’s targeted at both overseas and local drivers. “We are now in discussions with all the regional councils we serve on dates for the return of full timetables,” said Head of Kinetic in New Zealand Calum Haslop. Kinetic Group, owner of NZ Bus and Go Bus Transport, said the mass recruitment will “solve the nationwide post-Covid driver shortage”. There is now some home that there may be a little bit of light at the tunnel, it won’t be a train as there’s still a heap of work to do on rebuilding the rail network, but it may well be a bus.Īfter endless cancellations every day, bus bosses say an end to public transport woes may be in sight.Īn “intense recruitment campaign” will deliver 559 new bus drivers across Aotearoa in the coming weeks – with more than 300 to be stationed in Auckland. It’s been a tough year for public transport users who have had to suffer through thousands of service cancellations, delays and rail network closures.
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