More Affordable Bus Fares for Wellington City?

Fare Zone boundaries in Wellington City are quite small, so our bus users can easily pay two or three zones to travel a relatively short distance! As seen from this schematic, you would get a lot further for your one, two or three zones if you were in the Hutt Valley or Porirua.

I would like to see the three fare zones in Wellington reduced to just two, which would help with the affordability of our buses. What do you think?

Greater Wellington Regional Council recently stated their policy position that fares would be charged proportional to distance travelled, but the issue of Wellington City’s smaller fare zones has been formally raised more than once, without any change.

I’m hearing from lots of people that affordability is an issue, so I will certainly be raising this if elected.