Public transport is provided by No 60 and No 60e Metlink buses from Wellington via Johnsonville which run down Middleton Road to Tawa and Porirua.

A 2017 report said that a proposed commuter railway station near Churton Park on the Kapiti Line (and actually in Glenside) was too expensive.

The issues for Ngāti Toa involved questionable land purchases by Colonel Wakefield of the New Zealand Company before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.

This resulted in the Wairau Affray (1843), the Boulcott Farm hostilities in the Hutt Valley (1846) and the skirmish at Battle Hill (1846).

[4] A public works camp was built at Glenside to house workers building the Tawa Flat deviation of the North Island Main Trunk railway, constructed from 1924 to 1937.