Dear Fellow Bus Passenger,

for god's sake, move down the back!…if you find your­self halfway down the bus, dur­ing rush-hour, with the entire rear of the bus’s aisle not only empty, but with half a dozen seats still there for tak­ing, please don’t just stand there, act­ing as a dam against the ever-increas­ing human stream for­cing its way up against your incon­sid­er­ate arse.

Mov­ing back, and up that one small step is all that divides you from a pos­sible seat, and from allow­ing anoth­er ten or so people onto this bus, instead of caus­ing them to wait 10 minutes until the next (prob­ably also over­crowded) bus arrives. Arse­hole.

In which we bring you breaking news

Something’s going on in Wel­ling­ton. Bus drivers in Hataitai were only tak­ing money for one sec­tion from pas­sen­gers, warn­ing them they’d have to walk the oth­er sec­tion any way. Four trol­ley buses are parked along Cam­bridge Ter­race with their haz­zard lights on. At least four more buses are parked along Cour­tenay Place. There were mut­ter­ings […]

Bus(t) a move

So, as part of the big shiny Met­link rebrand­ing, they’re going to change zones and prices, and they’d like you to have a say. Won­der­ing what this means and how it might affect you? Well, if you’re under 18 or over 65, you might get 50% off your fares, provided you show a photo ID. […]

Dear Stagecoach

Today (20th April), at about 5:50pm, I wanted to catch my usu­al bus, the #4 Happy Val­ley, from Wil­lis St, oppos­ite the Metro New World. I spot­ted it pulling away just as I arrived at the stop, so, think­ing to myself that I would prob­ably be able to catch up with it at one of […]