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Transport / June 2009

July 2009 | May 2009
    • The Wellingtonista visits Snapper
      • Some of us at the Wellingtonista are rather fond of the old Snapper card. We worked through its teething troubles and are now happily tagging on and off as we bus about the city. So when Miki Szikszai, CEO of Snapper, asked us if we'd like to visit Snapper HQ and learn a bit about what's new in the world of the magical talking fish box, we (well, Alan and I) jumped at the chance.
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      • snapper-card

    • Terrible design
      • I’d heard about these things being installed at Auckland Airport, and I just thought that was typical Jafa bad design in that godawful domestic airport of theirs, but knock me down with a wet kipper: we’ve now got them here in Wellington as well.
      • Tagged as:
      • airport
      • architecture

        • Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Travelling In Style
      • Wellington’s Airport Flyer service has been given a $4 million facelift, and we think it’s money well spent. The Airport Flyer fleet now has nine new NZ-built buses, featuring leather coach-style seats, extra leg-room and air-conditioning. Of course, the new [...]
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      • airport

        • Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Now We’re Flying!
      • We’ve had a busy week here at Snapper, rolling out the ability to pay for your bus fare by Snapper on Valley Flyer and Airport Flyer buses. The first Snapper-enabled bus left the Waterloo depot in the early hours of last Sunday morning and by lunchtime every Valley Flyer bus had been fitted out with Snapper equipment.
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      • snapper-card
      • hutt-valley

        • Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Snapper, re-visited
      • It's been a long time since we've mentioned Snapper in these pages. In the meantime it's become so much of an everyday part of life in Wellington now that it hardly seems worth mentioning anymore. Or is it? Recently we got an email from Snapper asking us if we'd like to come and see what they're up to. It seems they've had a few other things on the go as well as the recent Valley Flyer conversion
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      • snapper-card
      • fares

    • Flying In The Valley
      • There’s been a sea of red down at the Westfield Queensgate Mall in Lower Hutt this week as a team of Snapper Hosts have been working non-stop on the Valley Flyer swap-out programme. Valley Flyer’s “Go Rider” card is being replaced with Snapper and will go live on Sunday 14 June on all Valley Flyer and [...]
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      • fares
      • snapper-card

    • Cold Train
      • Wellington's Tranz Metro trains have lately been known for certain carriages with broken heating. It's horrible enough being (relatively) young and only faced with a 30-minute chilly commute. I wouldn't want to be a Paraparam gran making the hour-long trip to Wellington in an unheated carriage. But it seems that while the carriages are slowly being fixed, Trans Metro are also paying attention to,
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      • trains

    • Manners closes, but what will open?
      • If you have read the Dominion Post article on Manners, you will know that the plans to un-mall Manners Mall have just been passed. If you have read the Dominion Post article, you will also not know the full story. Whether due to the breaking nature of the announcement, or somewhat slanted journalistic intent, the dom doesn’t make mention of the news that the lower end of Cuba St down to Wakefield will be redeveloped as a pedestrian-oriented public space.
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      • manners-mall-bus-lane
      • cuba-street

        • Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Snapper welcomes 8 new Merchants.
      • We are happy to announce 8 new Reload and Acceptor Merchants that have come on-board in the past week strengthening our network in the suburbs: Bay Foodkmarket, Island bay; Bay Discount Tobacconist, Kilbirnie; Molesworth Goods, Thorndon; Anitas Bookshop, Featherston St   Adding to the Subway Launch the following sites will be using Snapper for its queue busting abilities: Subway Featherston St,
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      • kilbirnie
      • island-bay
      • thorndon

        • Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


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