AT Local electric rideshare review

The AT Local electric rideshare service providing people with access to Auckland’s North Shore ferries could be dropped or revised.

Auckland Transport (AT) is seeking feedback on two options for the future of the 806 bus service (Stanley Bay-Devonport Ferry Terminal), 807 bus service (Cheltenham-Devonport Ferry Service) and the AT Local service on the Devonport Peninsula.

The first option sees improvements to the current 806 and 807 bus services and the end of the AT Local service.

Option two keeps the two bus services at peak commuting times and a revised AT Local service off-peak, on the weekend and public holidays.

AT Local is a trial on-demand rideshare service using a mix of electric vans and cars operating from the Devonport, Bayswater and Stanley Bay ferry terminals.

“If we went with the first option we could bring an additional bus onto the Stanley Bay and Cheltenham routes,” AT Integrated Network Enablement group manager Colin Homan says.

“This would allow us meet more of the ferries and we could run buses earlier in the morning and later in the evening.

“The second option would mean some pretty significant changes to AT Local. We’d bring fares into line with buses, customers would pay using their AT HOP card and all our usual HOP concessions would apply.”

Homan says fares would be part of the integrated fare structure which means the AT Local journey and the ferry trip would be treated as the same journey.

“With the local bus services and AT Local as they currently are, there’s a lot of duplication. Both options would eliminate that.”

Public feedback on the two options is open until October 18 at www.AT.govt.nz/HaveYourSay, and four public drop-in sessions are planned at the Devonport Library on October 7, 10, 13 and 15 if Auckland is at COVID-19 alert level 1.