Buses in Kāpiti reduced during all-day industrial action
Bus passengers in Kāpiti are advised that Metlink bus services on Wednesday 26 July will be running to a Sunday timetable, with the addition of school trips, during all-day industrial action.
Unionised employees of Uzabus, one of the operators contracted to run Metlink bus services, will be taking industrial action for 24 hours from 4:00am on Wednesday 26 July. Uzabus is contracted to provide bus services in Kāpiti.
Trains will be running a full weekday service; however Kāpiti passengers are encouraged to check their bus connections, which may be impacted by the reduced timetable.
Metlink bus routes in the rest of the region will be unaffected. There will be no impact on services to the FIFA Women’s World Cup, for which no matches are scheduled on Wednesday.
Metlink Group Manager Samantha Gain advised that bus passengers planning to travel in Kāpiti on 26 July should check their bus routes before they go.
“Metlink will keep in touch with Uzabus to ensure that disruption is minimised. The latest information will be provided to passengers via our app and website.”
Passengers should seek up-to-date travel information on the Metlink app or at metlink.org.nz.
Affected services
A full Sunday timetable will run on routes 250, 260, 261, 262, 280 and 281, with some exceptions.
- Route 280(external link) at 8:23 am from Waikanae Station
- Route 260(external link) at 8:34am from Raumati Beach Shops
- Route 261(external link) at 2:37pm from Paraparaumu Beach
No service on routes 251 and 264, which do not run on Sundays.
Route 290(external link) runs a reduced timetable.
- 7:08am from Otaki
- 8:00am from Otaki
- 9:27am from Waikanae
- 11:27am from Waikanae
- 1:27pm from Waikanae
- 3:27pm from Waikanae
- 5:19pm from Waikanae
All school trips will run as normal, with the following exception:
- Routes 501(external link) & 505(external link) will combine in the morning, and
- Routes 501(external link) & 500(external link) will combine in the afternoon.