Public transport in the Otago Region

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Orbus

Parent	Otago Regional Council
Founded	1986
Locale	New Zealand
Service area	Dunedin, Queenstown
Service type	Bus
Routes	20 in Dunedin, 6 in Queenstown
Hubs	Dunedin Bus Hub, Great King St; Frankton bus hub, Queenstown
Daily ridership	10,919 (Dunedin, July-December 2023) 6,067 (Queenstown, July-December 2023) [1]
Fuel type	Diesel, battery electricity
Operator	Go Bus Transport, Ritchies Transport
Website	Dunedin Buses

The public transport system of Otago centres around the cities of Dunedin and Queenstown, under the brand name Orbus. Public transport in the region is provided using buses and ferries. Despite sharing a name, the systems in Dunedin and Queenstown are isolated from one another.

The Otago Regional Council designs routes and schedules, and contracts operation of bus services to two bus companies, Go Bus Transport and Ritchies Transport. The majority of bus routes in Dunedin normally operate at 30 minute headways, with 8 and 63 operating at 15 minute frequencies. All buses in Queenstown run at 60 minute headways, except for route 1, which operates every 15 minutes. In Dunedin, Services on evenings, weekends and holidays operate at about half the normal weekday frequency and there are no services on late Sunday or holiday evenings, nor on Christmas Day, Good Friday or Easter Sunday.^{[2][3][note 1]}

Bus fares in both cities are paid for by cash or by the electronic ticketing system Bee Card. The Bee Card replaced GoCards on 1 September 2020.^[4] Prior to GoCards, multi-trip paper tickets were used until November 2007.^{[citation needed]}

Buses in Otago carried 4,050,282 passengers per year from 2022 to 2023.^[5]

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