Free bus service makes a splash

Cambridge residents will be offered a free bus service to Te Awamutu’s Livingstone Aquatic Centre this summer due to the major redevelopment at the Cambridge pools.

Waipa District Council service delivery committee confirmed today Council would offer the service to residents from December through to late January to ensure they would have access to a pool facility during the hottest months of the year.

From Monday 9 December, a bus will run twice a day from Cambridge i-SITE to the Te Awamutu i-SITE and back every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The service will depart from Cambridge at 8.30am and 1pm and will return from Te Awamutu at 11.30am and 4pm.

Mayor Jim Mylchreest said this was the second time Council was offering the service.

“Last year the free bus from Cambridge to Te Awamutu was very popular and lots of people made the most of it. We actually ended up extending so it ran for a longer period of time because it was so well used.”

Mylchreest said there had been great progress on the Cambridge pool throughout the year and work was on track for completion in mid-2020.

“We are now working above ground and things are really coming together now which is great. The outer building is starting to take shape and we can now get a better picture of what it will look like once it’s complete.”

Around $7,400 has been set aside from the Cambridge pool operational budget to run the bus service. It will not run over the Christmas and New Year period from 21 December to 6 January 2020. Further details are available at waipadc.govt.nz/cambridgepool.