Missing the bus
In an extraordinary act of passive aggression, the city contractor responded to overcrowding by reducing bus seating. The adage that if you don’t know where you’re going, any route will get you there seems to have been the blueprint for the Greater Wellington Regional Council’s catastrophic new bus “service”. A cynic might suspect a secret agenda to slash the use of buses. Less patronage certainly appears to have been the outcome after just nine weeks of the new timetable. Districts had their bus frequency cut by as much as 40% and now, unsurprisingly, Wellingtonians report greater traffic congestion from a return to cars. This week, dealers reported a spike in local sales of motorised scooters. Near-daily headlines about the chaos have made Wellington buses a national laughing stock, yet it…
