Useless buses
I don’t complain too much about my regular bus service – because, generally, it is pretty good. In the year and a half or so that I’ve been catching Herne Bay buses I could probably count the number of seriously late morning buses on one hand – mightily impressive for Auckland.…
11 Comments Customer feedback: an interesting comparison
A few weeks ago I had a rather annoying bus experience, with at least a couple of buses not turning up or being exceedingly late. Usually that would be just somewhat annoying, but on this particular occasion my daughter’s parent-teacher interviews were set down for 6.10pm and because of the exceedingly late bus I was only able to make it there for the last couple of minutes of our alloted time.…
What is the point of the 004 bus?
Living in Herne Bay, I catch either the 004 or 005 bus into town each morning, and again either the 004 of 005 bus home again in the evening. There’s not much difference between the two routes, except that the 005 extends all the way to Westmere, whereas the 004 route terminates at Herne Bay.…
Early Link Buses
A rather odd bus experience going on at the moment.
Usually I catch the 004/005 bus to work, but today I was already in Ponsonby for breakfast so the Link Bus was the next one into town. While I waited forever at traffic lights to cross College Hill I noticed a Link Bus sitting at its stop for a good 3-4 minutes with the driver outside having a smoke.…
Dominion Road – yay, a world-class bus route
As I have mentioned previously, Dominion Road probably already has one of the better bus routes throughout all of Auckland. But it’s about to get even better! From February, there will be inter-peak buses going along this route every 5 minutes between Mt Roskill shops and the CBD.…
Idiotic buses
This will be just a short post from my phone.
Just turned up at my bus stop to catch the 5.15 bus home. At about 5.14 two buses turn up, a 005 in front of a 004. Everyone gets on the 005, as do I.…
The Public Transport Management Act
When I look back at this year, from a transport perspective, I guess overall the feeling is that “things were turning into a mess, but largely they’ve been sorted out”. Electrification’s still happening, integrated ticketing’s still happening, there’s an investigation into the CBD Rail Tunnel underway, funding for Project DART is continuing, and so forth.…
Rudman on Infratil
An interesting article by Brian Rudman on the Snapper/Thales integrated ticketing fiasco in today’s Herald:
After the big spin, Infratil’s a loser
I hadn’t thought of veteran Auckland public relations man Cedric Allan as the Grand Old Duke of York. Not until he took on his latest campaign to try to persuade Aucklanders that Infratil’s Snapper smartcard had won the battle to bring integrated public transport ticketing to the region.…
Sunday PT – very unimpressive
I suppose I was asking for it, hoping to take public transport from Herne Bay to Sylvia Park on a Sunday and expecting it to not be complete and utter rubbish. Although, on the other hand past experiences haven’t been too bad.…
Snapper Shocker
A couple of days ago Josh did a post about the announcement from Snapper that their “integrated ticketing” system would be installed on all the buses in Auckland belonging to NZ Bus, I have a different take.
It is obvious from the actions of Infratil and its subsidiaries, Snapper and NZ Bus this year that this group of companies has absolutely no interest in improving Auckland’s transport or even being a good a “corporate citizen”, no interest even in growing their long term receipts from increased public transport ridership, rather they are consumed with increasing their short term profits and getting a “larger piece of the existing pie” rather than “making a bigger pie”.…
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