Bus fare increases: short trips up most

Auckland Transport fares will rise by varying amounts next month, and the increase in short bus trips between Warkworth and Wellsford, and Warkworth and Silverdale are at the higher end of the scale. Longer trips carry smaller percentage increases.

From February 4, an adult bus trip from Warkworth to Hibiscus Coast station will rise from $4.20 to $4.45, an increase of 5.9 per cent. Adult fares from Warkworth to Wellsford will be up from $2.37 to $2.60 (up 9.7 per cent). From Warkworth to Albany station, the adult fare rises from $5.80 to $6 (up 3.4 per cent) and from Warkworth to Britomart from $8.25 to $8.50 (up 3 per cent).

AT says the increase, its second since 2021, will help meet significant and sustained operating cost increases.

“We have been mindful of the impacts Covid 19 and extreme weather has had on our customers. We deferred last year’s fare increase until April and, in 2022, there was no increase at all,” AT’s director of public transport and active modes Stacey van der Putten says.