Hobsonville Point is the largest residential development in the country, nearing 2,600 completed homes on the road to 4,500 on a former air force base. Forty-three of the services on routes 112 and 114 travelled the 2.5kms through Hobsonville Point, empty. If you catered for school traffic with a single school service, Hobsonville Point’s 107 buses would probably average one passenger each within the community. Abigail Dougherty/Stuff Hobsonville Point models higher density living and enables a lower dependency on car travel. Declaration: Todd Niall has lived at Hobsonville Point for seven months, but written about it for nine years.

Source: Stuff April 19, 2021 16:52 UTC