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A new Wellsford-Warkworth bus service will begin operating on February 24 next year.
The 998 bus service is among the first services to be funded by the Rodney Local Board’s controversial transport targeted rate.
Buses will depart at 60 minute intervals.
During weekdays, the first bus will leave Wellsford at 6.10am and the last bus will be at 7.10pm. At weekends, the first bus will depart Wellsford at 7.20am and the last bus will be at 5.20pm.
Passengers travelling from Warkworth on weekdays can catch the first bus to Wellsford at 6.40am and the last bus is at 7.40pm. At weekends the first bus departs Warkworth at 7.50am and the last bus is at 5.50pm
The journey will take 25 minutes in either direction.
On the southbound route, buses will depart Wellsford on Station Road, just west of the southern vehicle access to Wellsford Railway Station and will arrive outside the library in Baxter Street.
On the northbound route, buses will leave Baxter Street and terminate on Station Road, just west of the intersection with Harrison Street.
The service will make use of bus stops adjacent to Memorial Park in Wellsford and Whittaker Road in Warkworth.
The service has been designed by Auckland Transport (AT) in consultation with the Local Board.
Board deputy chair Phelan Pirrie says the Board will review the service after six months to see if any adjustments are required to service times.
He says he was “pleasantly surprised” at how quickly AT was able to put the service together.
“They have done the modelling really quickly. It just goes to show that when you have some budget what can be done,” he says.
In addition to the Wellsford-Warkworth bus service, targeted rate money will also fund a Hellensville-Silverdale service and a Westgate-Albany service.
The targeted rate for transport improvements in Rodney came into effect on July 1. It is costing each household in Rodney area an extra $150 a year for the next 10 years.
