As a result of community feedback, Commissioners decided to defer the introduction of the bus lanes until 2024. The implementation plan for the bus lanes will be considered by the new Council in August 2024. In the meantime, there are some vertical orange poles (hit sticks) in sections of Cameron Road in the bus lanes. These will remain in place until the part-time bus lanes are officially in use.
When operational, buses only will use these lanes from:
Monday to Friday, 7am-9am on the western side of Cameron Road, (heading north into the city centre).
Monday to Friday, 4pm-6pm on the eastern side of Cameron Road (heading south away from the city centre).
At all other times, the part-time bus lanes will continue to be used for parking, including weekends.
Council will proactively enforce illegal use of the bus lanes. Infringements will result in fines of up to $150.
Within the next 10 years (as bus usage and demand increases), these lanes will transition to become dedicated bus lanes.
The part-time bus lanes are one of the ways the Building our future - Cameron Road, Te Papa project will help address Tauranga’s growth, revitalise a key part of our city, and provide more transport options so people don’t have to be so car dependent, all things the community has said they would like.
New bus stops
New permanent bus stops are in place along Cameron Road. These include:
Eastern side
- There is a new permanent bus stop just before Third Avenue, outside 306 Cameron Road.
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue outside Tauranga Primary School.
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue outside 398 Cameron Road (Chadwick Healthcare South City).
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Ninth Avenue and Tenth Avenue (Pak'n'Save).
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Eleventh Avenue and Twelfth Avenue (Blooms on Cameron).
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Thirteenth Avenue and Fifteenth Avenue (Tauranga Boys' College).
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Fifteenth Avenue and Sixteenth Avenue (KM Law).
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Sixteenth Avenue and 17th Avenue, which is installed but will not be opened until the shelter is complete.
Western side
- There is a new permanent bus stop just past the SH2 intersection outside 727 Cameron Road.
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Fourteenth Avenue and Thirteenth Avenue (Harvey Norman).
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Twelfth Avenue and Eleventh Avenue outside 573 Cameron Road (Westpac).
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Tenth Avenue and Ninth Avenue (The Warehouse).
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Eighth Avenue and Seventh Avenue outside 399 Cameron Road (Warehouse Stationery).
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Fifth Avenue and Fourth Avenue outside 375 Cameron Road (Salvation Army).
- There is a new permanent bus stop between Third Avenue and Second Avenue at 301 Cameron Rd (Raine and Horne Real Estate).