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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 ...
Rotorua has a network of ten bus routes, serving all parts of the urban area. [45] The buses are administered by the Bay of Plenty's regional council. There are links to other towns in the area. [46] [47] Taupō has three routes under the BUSIT service covering the Taupō urban area and to other towns in the Waikato. [48]
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. [139] A trial service of 5 buses a day on a local service began in 2017. [140] It carried 852 passengers in its first month. [26] Auckland-Paeroa-Waihi ...
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]
An intercity bus service (North American English) or intercity coach service (British English and Commonwealth English), also called a long-distance, express, over-the-road, commercial, long-haul, or highway bus or coach service, is a public transport service using coaches to carry passengers significant distances between different cities ...
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.
This further increased acquisitions by NZR of small bus companies. [2] By 1954 the bus routes covered 6,000 miles (9,700 km), but generally at higher fares than the railways. For example, the 230 miles (370 km) Christchurch-Dunedin return journey cost £2 13s 6d by rail, but £3 10s by bus and took 7hr 10min on the fastest train, but 9hr by bus ...
By 1924 AARD was running a regular bus between Hamilton and Rotorua, via Tīrau. [51] In 2018 47% of those in the Tīrau statistical area said they drove to work, 30% worked from home, 4% walked and 0.5% cycled. [52] An Urban Connector bus runs twice a day between Tokoroa and Tīrau, via Putāruru and Lichfield. [53]