Christchurch provides a range of bus and ferry services for those living in or visiting the city.
From Thursday 26 March all bus services will run to the Sunday timetable, and will be for essential travel only.
Metro is running additional services on a limited number of routes early in the morning and later in the evening, outside of the usual Sunday timetable operating hours.
Additional changes include Route 135, which travels from The Palms to New Brighton, will operate Monday to Saturday, using its Saturday timetable, and the Diamond Harbour Ferry timetable.
The Bus Interchange will be closed from Thursday 26 March and all central city services will use the Manchester St super stops instead.
For more information about how COVID-19 is affecting bus and ferry services please visit MetroInfo.
Christchurch bus and ferry services and routes are managed and provided by Environment Canterbury (ECan)(external link), operating under the branding Metro(external link).
Having a Metrocard is the faster, cheaper, smarter way to go:
The Metro network provides transport from most suburbs to the city, all shopping centres and a range of attractions around Christchurch.
Council owns and maintains most bus shelters in Christchurch.
To report or request the following, please call 03 941 8999, or email info@ccc.govt.nz:
The glass panel and advertising bus shelters are owned by Adshel, who maintain their own shelters, please phone them on 0800 237 435.
Adshel also removes graffiti from their shelters.
For graffiti removal from all council-owned bus shelters, seats and pillars outside of normal cleaning, report it online(external link), call 03 941 8999 and ask for the Graffiti Office.
You can also use Snap Send Solve(external link) to report graffiti and breakages at Council shelters.
