Keeping you up to date with detours and changes happening as a major Queenstown roading project is underway. Otago Regional Council is working with the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi to keep Queenstown bus passengers moving while this infrastructure work happens. Please check back to keep up with changes to bus routes.
Key points
- Queenstown buses may be following detours
- For information on detour routes and temporary bus stops stay up to date with our bus alerts here.
- Changing buses at the Frankton Bus Hub? Let your driver know so they can tell the other drivers if buses are delayed.
Buses stopping at the Frankton Bus Hub may be following detours due to road closures. Detours will depend on where the road works are happening. Find out which routes are affected on which dates below.
For information on detour routes and temporary bus stops stay up to date with our bus alerts here.
Please let your bus driver know if you are transferring to another bus at the Frankton Bus Hub so they can communicate with the other driver if buses are running behind schedule.
While most of this work will be done at night, travel times may also be affected during the day so please plan ahead. If you have to be somewhere at a specific time you may want to consider catching an earlier bus.
Buses will follow detours and service temporary bus stops due to road closures around the Stanley and Ballarat Street intersection.
- ALL routes: Buses will use the Queenstown Arterial Road in both directions. Temporary bus stops will be in service along this road to temporarily replace the usual bus stops by the Holiday Inn and the Queenstown Courthouse on Stanley St.
- Routes 2 and 5 only: buses in both directions will use the Stanley St carpark as a temporary bus hub, replacing the usual stops at the Stanley St Bus Hub on a short-term basis.
- Route 1 only: temporary bus stops will be located in Shotover St only. Buses in both directions will NOT enter the temporary bus hub at the Stanley St carpark.
- The bus stops at Upper Stanley St, Blue Peaks and Stanley Street Bus Hub B will be closed.
From Sunday, 9 February 2025, until further notice, Humphrey St will be closed between 7pm to 6am on Sunday to Thursday nights.
• Route 3 passengers — during construction hours only: Buses will divert to Lucas Place roundabout. Bus stops on Douglas St and Robertson St will be closed, and temporary stops will be in place on Lucas Drive.
Please note that usual stops and routes will be followed outside of construction hours.
• Route 3 & 4 Passengers: There will be traffic lights in place between the Kawarau Falls Bridge and Humphrey St intersection. Delays are possible in both directions.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause our passengers. This work is part of NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA)’s State Highway 6 and 6A Frankton Intersection and Bus Hub Improvements Project, managed by Kā Huanui a Tāhuna. Contractors will be working to minimise disruption as much as possible.
Roadworks in this area will be ongoing for four years. Stay up to date via NZTA’s website or sign up for Kā Huanui a Tāhuna’s monthly newsletter Huanui pānui.
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The New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi is delivering improvements to SH6 and SH6A as a Road of Regional Significance project via the *Kā Huanui a Tāhuna Alliance. Find out more on the NZTA website.
*Kā Huanui a Tāhuna is an alliance partnership between NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) and Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) along with four design and construction companies, Beca, WSP, Downer and Fulton Hogan.
