“Please don’t forget to tag off” finally tags off

You know when you tag on with a Snap­per and the voice goes “PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO TAG OFF”? Well, duh.

Or when you tag on with less than $12 on your card — gasp! — and the voice goes “CARD VALUE LOW” in a tone that sounds real­ly con­cerned for your finan­cial well­be­ing, like it wants to add “This has been hap­pen­ing for a while now. Ought­n’t you get some bud­get­ing advice?”

Well, Snap­per have realised that these voice alerts are kind of annoy­ing and/or unnec­es­sary; and that we as pub­lic trans­port users have learned how the mag­i­cal fish box works, so they’re updat­ing the Snap­per sounds.

Here’s a handy table of the changes:

That’s right — the Snap­per box­es will now go bee­doo bee­doo bee­doo­bie did­dly doo.

And not only that, it’s also going to be a lot quick­er to tag on. No wait­ing for the pre­vi­ous pas­sen­ger’s tag-on mes­sage to play before you can tag on.

Go Welling­ton bus­es will be updat­ed with the new beeps and sounds from this Fri­day evening, 9 April.

And there’s a compre­hen­sive post about the changes over at the Snap­per blog.