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Almost all intercity bus services are operated for-profit by a single private company, InterCity. InterCity operates only major national routes, and few connecting and regional routes. Intercity rail in New Zealand is entirely composed of lines dedicated to tourists, and a single commuter only line between Auckland and Hamilton. [1] [2]
Skip Bus is a low cost, express bus company launched by InterCity in November 2018. It offers bus travel between many North Island destinations, including Whangārei, Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Taupō, Tauranga and Wellington. [17] Skip buses have been suspended since 25 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and has not been reinstated ...
A Coromandel – Paeroa – Rotorua service started on 8 May 2017, [135] but was suspended when Naked Buses were sold to Ritchies on 15 July 2018. [136] InterCity provides a Thames-Coromandel-Whitianga link. [137] Thames 2017 The tramway to Tararu closed in 1874. [138] The bus service to Tararu and other parts of the coast closed in June 1972 ...
Ritchies is a significant shareholder in InterCity. Ritchies Transport is a New Zealand private bus operator, owned by KKR. [1] It was established in 1972 and describes itself as "the largest privately owned bus and coach transport operator in New Zealand" with a fleet of over 1500 vehicles spread across depots nationwide. [2]
In 1991 a consortium of private bus and coach operators acquired the InterCity business from the New Zealand Railways Corporation. [1] [2] Ritchies Transport and Tranzit Group bought the other operators out in 1995. [3] [4] [5]
The intercity bus operator companies in Indonesian with several major companies operating mainly in Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Sumatra. The longest intercity bus service in Indonesia is a route operated by Antar Lintas Sumatera (ALS) connecting Medan in North Sumatra and Jember in East Java. It is a week long bus travel covering a distance ...
The first bus operation by NZR began on 1 October 1907, between Culverden on the Waiau Branch and Waiau Ferry in Canterbury. By the 1920s NZR was noticing a considerable downturn in rail passenger traffic on many lines due to increasing ownership of private cars, and from 1923 it began to coordinate rail passenger services with private bus ...
Rotorua has a local bus service, [57] with 11 routes under the Baybus brand, serving the urban area, mostly at half-hourly intervals, [58] operated by Reesby Buses. [59] Bike racks were introduced in 2017 [60] and Bee Cards for fares on 27 July 2020. [61] Trial commuter services between Rotorua and Tauranga are running in each direction until ...