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.
Please note that all buses will be impacted by the road closure happening around the Frankton Bus Hub from Monday 28 April to Thursday 15 May between 9pm-6am (excluding Friday and Saturday nights).
This closure means that your bus trip may be a bit longer than usual after 9pm.
All buses will be able to access the Frankton Bus Hub via the BP roundabout, but delays are expected.
Routes 1, 3 and 4 will follow diversions around Queenstown Airport via Hawthorne Drive and the Lucas Place roundabout.
SH6 Kawarau Road will reopen again each morning after 6am. The BP roundabout will remain open throughout the closure.
Remember you can also track your bus using the free Transit app.
What’s happening at the Frankton Bus Hub after 9pm?
Six trenches, 1-2m wide and 2-3m deep, will be cut across the state highway using road saws, diggers, and rollers. These trenches will be filled in and the road repaired by 6am each morning, ready for traffic. Due to the size of the trenches, all bus and coach operators, and oversize loads, need to use the detour below. For more details about these works, go to: www.nzta.govt.nz/queenstown-package
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.
