Free transport options for Dunedin ABs test

PHOTO: ODT FILES
PHOTO: ODT FILES
Getting to the All Blacks v England game on Saturday has just become a little bit easier.

The Otago Regional Council and Dunedin City Council are providing a variety of free buses and parking facilities for fans.

ORC transport manager Lorraine Cheyne said some roads would be closed around the stadium, so fans were being urged to use the Orbus services, or park-and-ride option.

"We’re recommending fans allow at least an hour to get to the venue on the bus."

Fans travelling to the game on any Orbus services can show their match tickets to the driver, and get free travel two hours before the match and for about one hour after.

Routes to the stadium begin from Port Chalmers, South Dunedin (the Ridgerunner – via Roslyn, Māori Hill and North Dunedin), Concord (via Kaikorai Valley and the CBD) and Balaclava (via Mornington and CBD).

For other routes, change at the central Bus Hub.

The bus route numbers are 14, 15, 37, 38 and 63 and will run from 5pm-7pm before the game, and from 9pm-9.45pm after the game.

Routes 14, 15, 37, 38 and 63 will deliver fans to the new premium bus stop at Union St East, near the stadium.

Routes 14, 15, 37 and 38 will have 30-minute frequency, while Route 63 will run every 15 minutes.

While the buses were free for rugby ticket holders, they could still be used by the fare-paying public, Ms Cheyne said.

The city council is also running park-n-ride buses from the Victoria Rd carpark to the stadium, and buses will run in a loop from Moana Rua Rd to a bus hub which will be established in Forth St, from 4.30pm until kick-off.

Return trips to the Victoria Rd carpark will begin at 9.30pm from the Forth St bus hub.

Free buses will also run in a loop from outside the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, in the Octagon, to the Forth St bus hub from 4.30pm until kick-off, and return trips to the Octagon will begin at 9.30pm.

Fans can even take a 20-minute train trip from Mosgiel to Dunedin, departing Mosgiel at 3pm and 4.40pm, and returning at 9.50pm, 11.10pm and 12.40am.

Train tickets need to be booked online, even if a person decides to board the train just before its departure.

Customers will need to purchase Dunedin to Mosgiel and Mosgiel to Dunedin tickets in two separate transactions as per Dunedin Railways ticketing system.

 

 

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