Waimea Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
Wednesday 29 May 2024
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Increasing bus fares ‘worry’ parents MAX FRETHEY
Local Democracy Reporter
Parents who are already living week-to-week are coming under additional financial pressure after the removal of a Government subsidy for children on public
transport and the upcoming increase for the eBus service. Half-price fares for under-25s and free fares for under-13s ended on 1 May. Children aged 5-12 now pay halfprice, and people aged 18-24 now pay full price on Nelson Tasman’s
eBus service. Children aged 1318 saw no change and continue to pay half-price. However, the Nelson and Tasman councils agreed last week to increase the cost of bus fares paid by Bee Card by 5 per cent from 1 July.
Kaz Bradley has three children who catch the bus from their home in Stoke to school in Richmond. She was “gutted” to hear about the extra 5 per cent Bee Card fare increase. “Normally changes
like that don’t really bother me, but at a time where everything like inflation has just been out the gate… your mortgage rates are going up and everything, people are really struggling,” she says.
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Pleasure and pain GORDON PREECE More than 300 people unleashed their inner warrior at Nelson Obstacle Park over the weekend. The Wairua Warrior is Aotearoa’s largest obstacle course race, and it was the second time the annual event was hosted at the Moutere Highway venue. Organiser Julia Kelly says the event was “fantastic” with around 200 spectators, and Nelson Tasman making up half of the competitors. “It’s a lot of work and yes, I haven’t slept for quite a while, but it was worth all the work, all the effort, and all the cost… this is a labour of love,” she says.
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ASSISTING YOU WITH YOUR REAL ESTATE JOURNEY SINCE 2007 Please call to find out more Cody Scott claimed first in the 3km and 5km
and third in the 10km Elite Women categories. Photo: Evan Barnes/Shuttersport.
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