Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) are seeking interested parties to be involved in the tender of the new public transport contract that will begin 1st August 2025. The vision is to deliver a public transport system that is safe, increasingly used, integrated with other modes, and contributes to the economic, social, and environmental well-being of the people of Hawke’s Bay. As per Hawke’s Bay’s recent Regional Public Transport Plan (2022-32), the new network will enable a “step change” improvement in public transport services. The network will focus on:

• legible bi-directional routes, replacing the slow and indirect one-way loops of the existing network with two-way routes on more direct alignments.

• increased service frequency across all routes, with investment targeting connections to major employment, education, retail destinations and essential needs.

• increased span of service hours, with all urban services ultimately running from 6am to 8pm, seven days a week as the service scales up.