Penlink bus station disappears down budget hole

The ‘kiss and ride’ bus station, long planned for the Whangaparāoa Road end of the O Mahurangi Penlink route, has been parked due to new budget priorities. 

Hibiscus & Bays Local Board members were shocked to receive this news from Auckland Transport in a confidential session at a recent workshop. Although it was expected that the station would not be ready when Penlink opened, it had remained on the books as part of AT’s public transport focus until now.

An AT spokesperson tells the paper that the project was on hold as AT focused funding on recovering from weather events, as ...

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