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.

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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 […]