Monday, 13 January 2014, 3:23 pm Press Release: Big Day Out
Free Public Transport To Friday's Big Day Out
Get
yourself to the Big Day Out’s new home at Western Springs
this Friday using your BDO ticket as a free bus pass on BDO
Special Express buses around the city.
A continuous
Express bus service runs from Britomart out to the Big Day
Out from 9am. This is the reccomended public transport route
from the CBD to the Big Day Out.
Free Express buses
will return everyone to Britomart after the Big Day Out,
running until 1am.
Connections from Britomart after
the Big Day Out include a free special service to the North
Shore Busway Stations running until 2am.
Niterider
buses will run from 1am with regular fares.
Despite
reduced rail services and bus replacements running on the
Eastern and Southern Lines, there are additional train
services running post-event on the Western Line to Swanson
and Waitakere and the Eastern Line as far as Papakura. Train
services on the day are also free on presentation of your
Big Day Out
ticket.
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