Warren’s Bus Shelter Mission

A six-year campaign to get a bus shelter installed on a busy Auckland road has finally come to fruition - and it’s all thanks to the one-man mission of Edmund Hillary Retirement Village resident Warren Barrett.

It was no mean feat, with the 88-year-old retired engineer collecting hundreds of petition signatures from fellow village residents and writing dozens of emails to 80 different people at Auckland Transport over that time.

“I just wouldn’t let it go,” he grins.

“Most people would have given up I suppose. I had nothing else better to do!” he laughs.

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