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The Christchurch turntable is said to be one of only five trolleybus turntables ever to have been constructed worldwide. Three other such turntables are the similarly abandoned Longwood trolleybus turntable, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England (in operation 1939–1940; demolished late 1980s), one at the former Isleworth London Transport Trolleybus depot, also demolished but can be seen ...
Christchurch City Council provides roading infrastructure and street furniture such as signs and seats and regulates parking at bus stops, and is also owner of Red Bus Ltd through its holding company Christchurch City Holdings. The city council previously funded the zero-fare The Shuttle service which ended after the 2011 earthquake. The ...
Yellow Buses [1] was a bus operator based in Bournemouth, on the south coast of England. Yellow Buses was the trading name for Bournemouth Transport Ltd. The company fell into administration in July 2022 and ceased operations on 4 August 2022. [2] [3]
It was then owned by Christchurch City Holdings, a holding company of the Christchurch City Council. [2] [3] Red Bus operated the free central city bus, The Shuttle, on behalf of Christchurch City Council from 1998 to 2011. [4] In November 2016 the business of Aaron Travel was purchased. [5] The company lost routes in the 2019 tender for Public ...
Following the decision by the administrators of Yellow Buses to cease all bus operations in August 2022, Morebus took over several routes and offered a £2000 welcome bonus to recruit existing drivers who had a PCV licence. As a result, Morebus obtained a monopoly in the bus services across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP). [2]
The central city cordons were removed in June 2013 but The Shuttle was not reinstated. [5] Since 2015, the Greater Christchurch Public Transport Committee coordinates public transport planning in the greater Christchurch area between the regional council, Christchurch City Council, adjacent district councils and the NZ Transport Agency.
In Wellington City, 16.8% of workers travelled by bus, more than twice as many as the next highest, Auckland City (6.5%). [9] In 2001, controversial analyst Wendell Cox described the Auckland Regional Council's (ARC) plan to increase public transport to the downtown area to 20% of total share as "a simply unachievable goal". He also described ...
Construction of the Bus Interchange started in July 2014, after the projected completion date for the building. [6] The recovery plan identified ECan (Environment Canterbury, the regional council), CCC (Christchurch City Council), CERA (Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority), NZTA (NZ Transport Agency), and the private sector as project partners, [7] but the project was carried out by CERA. [8]