Well, it was chaos last night on the Kingston bus leaving the railway station at around 6.50. This bus is almost always late anyway and didn't make it to the Old Public Trust building on Lambton Quay until some time after 7. The Snapper machine was up and running (and making its infuriating bleeping sounds), but of course no one had a Snapper card. Most of us paid by ten-trip ticket. I'm fairly certain that the bus drivers used to only have to push one button to register that a ten trip had been used to pay a fare. With Snapper they seem to have to push several buttons. This slowed things down enormously and the driver was (understandably) in a very foul mood. The next bus (they run every 20 minutes at that time of night) passed us on Victoria Street and when I got off in Mornington the bus AFTER that bus was right behind us. It took nearly an hour to get home.
Well, it was chaos last night on the Kingston bus leaving the railway station at around 6.50. This bus is almost always late anyway and didn't make it to the Old Public Trust building on Lambton Quay until some time after 7. The Snapper machine was up and running (and making its infuriating bleeping sounds), but of course no one had a Snapper card. Most of us paid by ten-trip ticket. I'm fairly certain that the bus drivers used to only have to push one button to register that a ten trip had been used to pay a fare. With Snapper they seem to have to push several buttons. This slowed things down enormously and the driver was (understandably) in a very foul mood. The next bus (they run every 20 minutes at that time of night) passed us on Victoria Street and when I got off in Mornington the bus AFTER that bus was right behind us. It took nearly an hour to get home.