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.

Back on track: why submit?

Drawing of an LRT stopSub­mis­sions on the North Welling­ton Pub­lic Trans­port Study close on Wednes­day, and while this is obvi­ous­ly of major inter­est to those who live in that area, every­one else could be for­giv­en for think­ing it irrel­e­vant. How­ev­er, there are many rea­sons why oth­er Welling­to­ni­ans should care.

read on…

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. […]