Public transport delivery dashboard
Every month, Metro’s route performance, patronage and financial data are collated into a delivery dashboard, which is presented to the Council.
This gives Council and the public a wider view of how our Greater Christchurch and Timaru services are tracking across different measurements. Included in the dashboard each month are reliability measurements, the number of safety incidents, patronage figures, as well as the top and bottom five Greater Christchurch routes.
To help improve the accessibility of this information, we are now publishing these, along with a small summary, on this webpage each month. You can find all dashboards since June 2025 below.
April 2026 dashboard
Key points:
- Patronage for the year was down 0.4% against the previous year for Greater Christchurch and down 6.5% against last year for Timaru.
- In Greater Christchurch patronage has seen an increase of 10.2% compared to April 2025, primarily driven by the current fuel situation influencing travel behaviour. Opening events at One New Zealand Stadium at Te Kaha at the end of April will have had a small contribution to this. Fuel costs do not seem to be influencing travel behaviour shifts in Timaru as yet.
- Total Mobility consumption continues to trend up compared to the same period last year. Government have announced changes to the subsidy rate and maximum fare cap, to be implemented from 1 July.
- We are currently tracking well above our Private Revenue target of 13%, sitting at 17.4% at this stage of the year.
