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Welcome to On Board with Orbus, your source of news and information about Dunedin and Queenstown's bus networks and the Bee Card 🐝🚍
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In this month's issue of On Board with Orbus - do you know your bus etiquette? We've got three simple rules to follow when catching the bus, that will make life easier for you, your driver, and your fellow passengers.
We're also sharing a new campaign from the Otago Uni Students Association, designed to get students on the bus and exploring Dunedin, and we've got an update on the future of public transport in Queenstown.
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Bus Etiquette 101
Are you getting to your bus on time? Remember these three simple 'Bus Etiquette' rules for catching the bus:
1. Make sure you get to the bus stop on time. As a rule, it helps if you aim to be there five minutes before the bus is scheduled to arrive. The free Transit app makes it easy!
2. Signal your driver. Let you bus driver know you're wanting to hop on so they don't drive past you.
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3. Last, but not least, scan on to your bus using the NZ COVID Tracer App. There are QR codes to scan on every bus, and it's important that you use them in the event of a COVID-19 case in Dunedin or Queenstown.
If you don't have the app, you can keep a record of when and where you travelled.
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Breather - Get some fresh air around DunedinThe Otago University Students Association, together with Orbus, the University Sustainability Office and Student Support, have put together a video series highlighting a few beautiful spots around Dunedin to have a breather - all accessible easily and affordably on our public transport network with a Bee Card.
Click on the image below to see the video about Macandrew Bay, or click through to their webpage here for the full series.
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Meet our new Go Bus Depot Manager
Go Bus has welcomed Narindervir Singh as their new depot manager in Dunedin. Narindervir, or NV to his friends and colleagues, will manage the urban, school and charter services for the company.
He started in early October, driving himself down the length of the country to relocate 1,425km from Auckland to Dunedin. Hear from the man himself in this profile on the Go Bus website.
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Where Queenstown public transport is heading over the next thirty years
Our councillors recently approved the scope of a Public Transport Business Case for Queenstown, part of a wider Queenstown Transport Business Case made up of integrated and
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complementary projects for the next 30 years.
This recognises that significant further development of public transport is needed over the next ten years, which also needs to be supported by infrastructure and behaviour change aspects for it to be successful. |
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The scope of the public transport investigations
includes meeting demand, quality of service, infrastructure, ownership, management & labour and funding. Some of the more specific parts of that puzzle include fleet decarbonisation, public transport hubs, and park-and-ride facilities, among others.
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The Public Transport Business Case will cover detailed analysis of how bus routes and fleet will evolve over the next 15-years, with a high-level view of public transport requirements over the following 15-years’. The public transport business case scoping paper can be viewed in the Council agenda, starting on page 201.
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Work the network (baby!)
Did you hear about the 7 people who didn't use a car for 7 days in Queenstown? They have inspired others to give it a go. |
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Along with our partners Queenstown Lakes District Council and Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency - South Island and other local sponsors, we're proud to support the Work The Network giveaway from The Lightfoot Initiative to support more people in Queenstown to take the bus, walk or cycle more often.
Click here to see the prizes, including a bike from Vertigo, e-bike hire from Better By Bikes, vouchers from The Front Runner, Bee Credit and the new venue Coco Cabana. |
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