Buses

Aquinas College Bus Routes 2012

Details of bus routes are below.

The buses are only to be used to get from home to school and school to home.

There has been a change to Bus 5 - Matua. The bus will now continue down Manuwai Drive, Kings Avenue and the full length of Levers Road. This change is effective from Tuesday 7th February.
This bus is going to be at capacity, so remember no friends allowed on bus after school.

Please Note Times are approx. & may vary according to traffic etc.
Please be at the Bus stop at least 5 minutes earlier.

Bus 1 Mt Maunganui
(Route 2531)
  • 7:50am Grove Ave Oceanview Rd Valley Rd Golf Rd - Oceanbeach Rd - Girven Rd last stop corner of Grenada St

Bus 2 Papamoa
(Route 2532)
  • 7:30am Cnr Domain Rd & Tara Rd - Gravatt Rd last stop corner of Evans Rd & Papamoa Beach Road

Bus 3 Welcome Bay
(Route 2538)
  • 7:40am Cnr Ranginui Rd & Welcome Bay Rd - Corinna St Arawhata Ave - Welcome Bay Rd Waitaha Rd Osprey Dr Victory St - Welcome Bay Rd Up Kaitemako Rd turns Waitaha Rd South
Bus 4 Cameron Rd/Cambridge Rd
(Route 2533)
  • 7:40am Stirling Gate on Cambridge Rd - Tamatea Arikinui Drive
  • 8:00 Elizabeth St (1st stop St Johns Pharmacy) - Cameron Rd
Bus 5 Matua
(Route 2539)
  • 7:40am Waihi Rd to Bellvue Rd Otumoetai Rd
  • 7:43 Otumoetai Primary School Grange Rd- Milton Rd Goods Rd Pine Ave - Bureta Rd Ngatai Rd Levers Rd Woods Ave Waratah Street Manuwai Drive Kings Ave Levers Rd Otumoetai Rd Expressway
Bus 6 Omokoroa
(Route 2534)
  • 7:30am Omokoroa No 1 School (Whakamaramara) SH2
  • 7:45 Snodgrass Rd Wallace Rd Matahiwi Rd Cnr Snodgrass Rd & Borrell Rd Wallace - Te Puna Rd Maramatahiwi Park Tangitu Rd - SH2 (Te Puna Hall) - McGregors
  • 8:12 Carmichael Rd- Bethlehem Rd - Moffat Rd Outside Bethlehem College to link with BC buses - Top of Cambridge Rd Tauriko Turn off
Bus 7 Oropi
(Route 2535)		  
  • 7:30am Oropi Road (Johns Produce)- Oropi Gorge Rd up to Cnr Belk Rd South & Taumata Rd- Pyes Pa Rd
Bus 8 Ohauiti
(Route 2618)
  • 7:45am Poike Road, Hollister Lane, Rowesdale Rd
  • 8:00 Ohauiti Rd Welcome Bay Road SH29
Bus 9 St Marys/ City (Route 2624)
  • 7:45am 11th Ave Fraser St 13th Ave St Marys School
  • 8:10 Burrows St 14th Ave Fraser St 15th Ave Turret Rd - across to Maungatapu Rd Te hono - returning across Hairini Bridge 15th Ave Fraser St Oropi Rd
Bus 10 Te Puke
(Route 2623)
  • 7:20am Palmer Place Commerce Lane Jocelyn St SH2 Bell Rd Parton Rd Transfer to BC bus 2613 to go further east up Papamoa Simpson Rd Kilpatrick Papamoa Beach Rd McCullam - Dickson Rd Longview Blossom Twin Oak Grove Tara Rd - Welcomebay
Bus 11 Bayfair
(Route 2655)
  • 7:45am Evans & Gloucester Rd Tuihana Rd Papamoa Beach Rd Sunrise Ave- Grenada- Denny Hume Dr Gloucester Rd- St Thomas Moore last stop
Bus 12 Matapihi/Meets Seagull
(Route 2660)
  • 7:45am Matapihi Rd Bayfair Dr Matapihi Rd (to travel across Harbour Bridge onto expressway to meet students catching Seagull Bus 2615 across the Kaimais. ) am Seagull Students collected at Petes Produce pm dropped at Lakes

BETHLEHEM COLLEGE BUSES

Seagull
(Route 2615)
  • 7:40 Hohia St Anglican Church Tahoia Rd
  • 7:50 Te Poi (PuffnBilly) 8:05 Thorn Rd Pori Pori Rd
  • 8:12 Ruahihi Power Station
  • 8:15 Petes Produce Country Orchard meet Aquinas 12
Kiwi
(Route 2611)
  • 7:30am Katikati Town Centre
  • 7:50 Hamurana Rd Omokoroa Rd
  • 8:10 B.College meet bus 6
Daisy
(Route 2610)
  • Youngson Rd Munro Rd Bethlehem College meeting bus 6

The routes are set each year by the Ministry of Education and are based upon the home addresses of our students. Please note that buses are only available to take students from home to school and back home again.