Major disruptions to Metro routes on Friday 7 November

We're advising customers of upcoming bus service disruptions on Friday 7 November 2025, due to a driver union meeting. 

Metro Routes:

• 1 Rangiora-Cashmere
•  5 Rolleston-New Brighton
• 7 Halswell-Queenspark
• 27 Northwood-Huntsbury
• 44 Shirley-Westmortland
• 60 Hillmorton-Southshore
• 80 Lincoln-Parklands
• 95 Waikuku and Pegasus-City
• 97 Rangiora-Pegasus
• 100 Wigram-The Palms via Riccarton
• 107 Styx Mill-Northlands Mall
• 120 Burnside-Spreydon
• 125 Redwood-Westlake
• 130 Hei Hei-Avonhead
• 135 New Brighton-The Palms
• 820 Burnham/Lincoln via Rolleston 
• and the Orbiter will all be affected, from 9.10am-2.30pm. 

School services will not be affected. 

Customers should be aware some trips may end at the city bus interchange from around 9.10am as drivers prepare to attend the meeting.

Kinetic, the operator whose drivers are involved in this meeting, has worked to ensure the remaining routes they service will be unaffected. We expect affected routes to be operating as usual by 2.30pm. 

Each operator’s bus drivers can attend up to two annual union meetings a year, as per their collective agreement, and this is one of them.  

We apologise for the inconvenience and recommend customers plan ahead if they are travelling on public transport on this day.  

Thank you for your patience, any further updates will be posted to Metro's Facebook page or metro.co.nz. Affected trips will be removed from our live information on go.metro.co.nz and at bus stops.