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.