for god's sake, move down the back!Two words: bloody buses.

Actu­ally, here’s a few more. This par­tic­u­lar Wel­ling­tonista had to wait forty minutes last even­ing for even one bus to turn up on his route. Of course, when one did, it was packed to the gun­nels, so it sailed by the stop, as did the next, and the next. Finally, one only mod­er­ately packed bus did find space to fit me on board, so I did even­tu­ally get home, but what irks me is that in the forty minutes spent wait­ing at the bus-stop, I saw three Kil­birnie buses go by (the second two wer­en’t even that full), and two Houghton Bay buses. I mean, if they’re going to can­cel buses, could­n’t they be a little more even-handed about it all?

Bus routes affected by the can­cel­la­tions are lis­ted here. I find it hard to believe that there are no #1, #4 and #32 can­cel­la­tions after 4:30 today. As a pre­cau­tion, I plan to back-walk a few stops to the Bee­hive end of Lamb­ton Quay, to ensure, at least, that I can get onto a bus that will take me home, should one deem to actu­ally turn up.