Wellsford bus funded

Auckland Transport (AT) will fund the Wellsford to Warkworth bus service from May next year.

The service was launched in February 2019 using the Rodney Local Board’s controversial transport targeted rate. At that time, AT said it would take over funding Route 998 if it met patronage targets over the three-year trial.

AT’s service network development manager Pete Moth says the service has seen steady growth and he acknowledged the Local Board for trialling the service, which he says would otherwise not exist.