“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.