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.
June 2026 dashboard
Key points:
- Patronage for the year finished up on last year by 0.7% for Greater Christchurch with strong growth in the fourth quarter of the year, and down 5.9% against last year for Timaru. In Greater Christchurch patronage has seen an increase of 10.1% in June compared to June 2025, primarily driven by the current fuel situation influencing travel behaviour. Fuel costs do seem to have influenced Timaru travel behaviour in June with growth of 5.7%.
- Total Mobility consumption finished the year 11.5% up on last year. Government changes to the subsidy rate and maximum fare cap, will commence from 1 July and this is expected to have a negative impact on consumption rates.
- Our Private Revenue result for the year finished at 17.9% well up on our target of 13%. This is a very positive result, reflecting growth in revenue and lower than budgeted expenditure.
- Safety incidents rose sharply in the later months of the year, directly relating to an increase in the “Vehicle accident – No injuries” category. Work is underway to better understand this shift.
