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Welcome to On Board with Orbus,
your source of news and information about Dunedin and
Queenstown's bus network and the Bee Card 🐝🚍
 
Route 3
Thanks to everyone who recently gave their input on the proposed changes to the Tainui/St Kilda end of route 3 Ocean Grove/Ross Creek service in Dunedin.
We had a good number of responses and are now working through the feedback. Don’t worry – no changes will be made until we have worked through this feedback and updated bus users.

O-Week
We recently attended Otago University’s Orientation Week Tent City with our colleagues at Dunedin City Council as partners in Connecting Dunedin.

Over three days, we asked first year students how they intended to travel around Dunedin. More than 230 students completed a survey, with the majority telling us that they planned to walk and take the bus. Some, like two students in the frame, also posed for a photo.

South D Street Festival
Are you going? We are 😊. An Orbus bus will be parked up during the event on Saturday 27 March from 10am to 4pm. Come on down, say hi and hop aboard the bus to enter to win a Bee Card preloaded with $20 credit. 

Photo credit
The main photo above is featured on the YourSay consultation page of the Regional Land Transport Plan. You can read more about this below.
The photo was taken by Paul McGinley in Queenstown at Remarkables Park. 
 

Easter schedules

Orbus in Dunedin does NOT operate on Good Friday or Easter Sunday. However, the volunteers at the Otago Heritage Bus Society (OHBS) will be providing their Rumbler service. Here is the schedule. 

The OHBS has been running the Rumbler for 10 years!  We'd like to congratulate them on reaching this milestone and thank them for giving many folks in South and North Dunedin an option to get around by bus on Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Christmas Day.  

Don't forget, if you're travelling that you can use your Bee Card in Dunedin, Queenstown, plus eight other regions in New Zealand! 
 
Regional Land Transport Plan

The Otago and Southland Regional Transport Committees have prepared and released a draft Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP) 2021/31 for consultation. The plan outlines proposed transport network improvements for the next six years and forms the application for funding from the National Land Transport Fund for the next three years. It is different from the public transport plan which is due to be released for consultation in May. 
Click here to have your say. Submissions must be received by 12pm, Monday 29th March 2021.
 
Don't forget to tag on too!!
We've been telling folks to please not forget to tag off, but we also want to remind you to TAG ON as well!
If someone tags on before you it may take a second or two before you can tag on. Make sure the ticketing machine beeps and says tag on successful.  
If you don't tag on but then tag off, the system will think you're tagging on. Then, because you won't tag off (as you've already finished the journey), you'll be charged a default fare of $3. 
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