17 Oct 2022

67 Wellington bus services cut with chronic driver shortage

From Checkpoint, 5:42 pm on 17 October 2022

Wellington commuters are in for more public transport woes after Metlink announced it's cancelling 67 bus services because of a driver shortage.

The changes kick in today and affect 14 bus routes during peak times. But some say it's better to wait longer for a bus than to not know whether it'll come at all.

Our reporter Soumya Bhamidipati and cameraman Samuel Rillstone have the story.