Buses / September 2013
October 2013 | August 2013-
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Earlier bus now possible for Strathmore service
- Sarah Free
- After contacting Mathew Lear of Greater Wellington with my concerns about the need for an earlier Strathmore service, I received the following email: “Just a heads up, after your feedback we’ve amended the draft timetables and the 6:20am trip from Strathmore now added to the latest draft timetable which provides a connection to Wellington Hospital […]
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Strathmore Park, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What the owners didnt know: unsafe care, unsafe driving, unsafe buses
- Wellington Scoop
- It’s taken an audit and a court case to uncover flaws in the organisation of two big companies which provide important services to Wellingtonians. One of the companies has admitted it was at fault. The other one (“we’re not perfect”) is denying responsibility.
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“We’re not perfect”
- Wellington Scoop
- “We’re not perfect,” says the CEO of NZ Bus, Zane Fulljames. This was after a second series of faults had been found in his Wellington buses. His words (for some reason they remind me of the last scene in Some Like It Hot) are being widely repeated. But it’s no joke. It’s the second time his company has been shown to be less than perfect. In May, there were four weeks of disruptions after his buses were pink-stickered because they were unsafe. Wasn’t everything supposed to have been fixed by now?
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