Alerts

This week we added a new service to help relieve loading and timing pressure on routes at Whakamarama, Plummers Point and Ōmokoroa.

The next stage of addressing the current traffic delays is a change in start times for all western routes. From Monday 29 May, all routes travelling from the area west of the Wairoa River will commence 15mins earlier. This change includes the following routes: R16, R17, R18, R20, R22, R23, R24 and R25.

 

Will be about 30 minutes late this morning

From Monday 22 May there will be a new bus route in place on the western side of Tauranga.

The R19 bus will service the lower part of Whakamarama Road, Youngson Road, Old Highway, Barrett Road and Plummers Point Road.

This service will collect students attending Otumoetai College and Intermediate, Tauranga Intermediate, Tauranga Girls’ College and Tauranga Boy’s College. This bus will transfer TIS, TBC and TGC students at Bethlehem.

From Tuesday 23 May, routes 22, 23 and 24 will no longer travel to Plummers Point Road. R16 will be modified to commence at the corner of Whakamarama Road and Youngson Road. Further changes to timetables will be made to improve arrival times at school.

Due to traffic from Omokoroa to Tauranga these buses will be running late by about 20 minutes

A teachers’ strike is planned for 11 May. If this goes ahead, the R24 bus will be cancelled. All other buses will operate, but will not pick up at the closed schools in the afternoon.