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Visiting the Fieldays this week? It may pay to leave your car home.
With the help of Busit!, run by the Waikato Regional Council, National Fieldays is running free buses to and from Mystery Creek.
Between June 10 and 13, Fieldays ticket holders will also be allowed to travel free on all Hamilton buses when they present their Fieldays ticket, enabling free door-to-door travel between home and Mystery Creek.
Fieldays and Busit! aim to reduce traffic congestion in Hamilton and parking problems at the Fieldays site.
“More people using public transport will help to relieve congestion across the city and especially in the vicinity of Mystery Creek. It also encourages more people to use our buses,” says Andrew Wilson, Waikato Regional Council public transport operations manager.
Buses will depart the Hamilton Transport Centre between 8:30am and 10:30am on Wednesday and Thursday, 8am and 11am on Friday and 8am and 10:30am on Saturday.
They will travel via Knox Street car park, Anglesea Street, Palmerston Street, Pembroke Street, Ohaupo Road (State Highway 3), and Airport Road to Fieldays.
There will also be a service from Fieldays to the transport centre in the afternoons, starting at 2pm and running to 5pm daily, departing from the bus depot at Gate 1.
The Waikato River Explorer will again be operating this year, travelling along the Waikato River between the Hamilton Gardens jetty and the Mystery Creek jetty. For more information, visit www.waikatoexplorer.co.nz.
There is a designated helicopter landing zone located beside the Waikato River jetty, near gate seven.
Helicorp will be flying from different locations to Fieldays; visit www.helicorp.co.nz/fieldays for more information.
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