The Tranz Alpine service will not be resuming today after all.

The continuing aftershocks mean all train services have been stopped in central Canterbury.

Some Christchurch bus services are operating again this morning.Aftershocks overnight have prompted re-inspection of the rail which will affect services this morning until the all-clear is given.
Here are the latest transport and post-quake developments:

Free train travel over the weekend saw the usual Sunday patronage jump six-fold.
Aucklanders readily took up the free train offer with approximately 30,000 trips made on the Sunday as against the usual 5,000 trips.

Infrastructure took a battering in the weekend Canterbury quake. The Midland railway line that connects Christchurch and the Port of Lyttelton to the West Coast reopened to rail freight traffic this afternoon.
Take a look at these lines.

It’s not just Auckland seeing a massive rise in public transport use. Bus patronage had grown by 68 per cent in Hamilton over the last 3 years.

Passenger trips leaping from just under 2.9 million annually to more than 4.8 million last year as new services progressively came on stream.