Metro meets demand with extended route
< Metro meets
demand with extended route north of city People living
near Willowbank Wildlife Reserve and Styx Mill Country Club
will soon be able to swap their cars for the popular Metro
bus service. Environment Canterbury says that the Number
11 Styx Mill / Westmoreland route will begin its new
extended route on Monday, March 31. The service has been the
subject of extensive consultation with residents in the
area, many of whom petitioned ECan for the change, over the
last year. The new extended service will be renamed as the
Supa Centa via Styx Mill / Westmorland. It will extend its
route on the northern section to go past Willowbank Wildlife
Reserve, Styx Mill Country Club, Northwood and terminate at
the Supa Centa on Radcliffe Rd. The frequency of the
extended service will be every 30 minutes weekdays and
hourly on weekends. ECan public passenger services
committee chairwoman Cr Carole Evans said it was good to see
the Styx Mill extended service beginning after much
productive discussion with residents over the past year.
“Metro has to meet demand in a time of rising petrol costs
which impact upon many families, young people and retired
people. We had a ten per cent rise in Metro usage in January
2008 over January 2007 which represents literally thousands
of private motor cars off the roads as more people make use
of the buses.” Separate to this change, the Number 12
Northwood continues the same service and the same frequency,
but there have been slight adjustments made to the departure
and arrival times at the Northwood
terminus.
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