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Paratransit services

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Paratransit services

Paratransit services – transport services for disabled people – received government funding in the early 2000s. Here a disabled man boards a Wellington bus via a fold-out ramp.

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Ministry of Transport – Te Manatū Waka

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Adrian Humphris, Public transport – Public transport funding, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22532/paratransit-services (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Adrian Humphris, published 12 April 2010.