The old saying about buses – you wait and wait and then three come along at once – is now sadly redundant.
Anyone seeing three in a day, let alone at once, is advised to get an urgent blood test for hallucinogens.
At a time when most councils are doing their utmost to get drivers out of cars and onto public transport, some councils are also making it harder to catch buses.
Just a day after the government agreed to heavily subsidise bus drivers’ wages to help ease the desperate labour shortage, Auckland’s transport wallahs announced a move that managed to be both brute-realist and contrary at