Education Minister Nikki Kaye said she was concerned to hear some pupils might be disadvantaged by changes to bus services in Dunedin. Otago Regional Council chief executive Peter Bodeker said the council had begun investigating solutions for the discontinued commercial school bus services. That meant Go Bus operated them independently for profit without subsidies from the council, the ministry or individual schools. Mr Piper said Go Bus no longer operated urban bus services because it lost the ORC's Unit 1 contract earlier this year. If families believed they were entitled to Ministry of Education funded school transport, they would need to discuss that with their school.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 19, 2017 17:03 UTC