Important Notice for Bus Passengers
To make travelling by bus even more attractive and convenient, improvements are being made to the following services:
Changes from Saturday 14th November
- Route 12 – Napier to Hastings/Hastings to Napier – Saturday Service Only
Services between Napier and Hastings will increase to hourly. Buses will now leave Dalton Street, Napier and Eastbourne Street, Hastings at 8am, 9am, 10am, 11am, midday, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm.
Changes from Monday 16th November
- Route 10 – Commuter Express
The 5.20pm from Dalton Street Napier will now depart at 5.10pm
- Route 11 – Commuter Express
Dalton Street, Napier Departures - The 7.05am will now depart at 7.10am. The 4.45pm will now depart at 4.40pm.
Clock Tower, Havelock North Departures – The 7.05am will now depart at 7.15am. The 5.20pm will now depart at 5.10pm.
- Route 12 – Napier to Hastings/Hastings to Napier – Monday to Friday
There will be an extra service daily, leaving Dalton Street, Napier and Eastbourne Street, Hastings at 2.30pm.
- Route 13 – Napier-Tamatea-Taradale-Tamatea-Napier – Monday to Friday
This route is being extended into the centre of Taradale.
The bus will now travel from the Clock Tower, Avondale Road, along Lee Road and into Puketapu Road before turning into Church Road.
The bus stop on Neeve Road will no longer be used. However the bus will continue to stop at the Clock Tower and will also pick up outside Taradale Primary School.
- Route 16A – Hastings-Camberley-Raureka-Hastings – Monday to Friday and
- Route 16B – Hastings Mahora-Hastings – Monday to Friday
These routes will be combined at the end of the day to provide a new, later service enabling people who work in Hastings to travel home by bus at the end of the day. The bus will leave Eastbourne Street, Hastings at 5.10pm.
- Route 20 – Hastings-Flaxmere-Hastings – Monday to Friday
Times of the first three morning services from Eastbourne Street, Hastings, are changing to enable people to get to work on time and students to get to EIT on time.
The 7am will now depart at 6.45am. The 7.25am will now depart at 7.15am. The 7.40 will now depart at 7.25am.
(EIT students travelling from Flaxmere should transfer to Route 12 at Hawke’s Bay Hospital).
- Route 20 – Havelock North-Hastings-Flaxmere-Havelock North – Saturday Service Only
Times of the afternoon services from Havelock North Clock Tower are being changed.
The 12.20pm will now depart at 12.30pm. The 1.20pm will now depart at 1.30pm. The 2.20pm will now depart at 2.30pm.
- Route 21 – Hastings-Havelock North-Hastings – Monday to Friday
The 7.35am from Sefton Street will now depart at 7.30am. The 5.15pm from Eastbourne Street, Hastings will now depart at 5.20pm.
Work is currently underway to update timetable booklets and timetable posters. In the meantime drivers will be distributing information to passengers and posters will be displayed on the buses.
For more information call Go Bus on (06) 878 9250.