As a bus driver doing a lot of the metro routes, including via St Lukes to New Lynn, Wynyard Quarter, City, I can tell you that Hop Cards are OK, but not everyone uses them. We get too many freeloaders on our buses and have done for months; people holding out $20, knowing full well we take no cash; people whose Hop Cards have no credit so don't register; people who walk on without a qualm because they know that we drivers have been told not to question them or argue; people who know Auckland Transport has no intention of policing buses for non-paying passengers, so don't hold your breath that we'll get a trace on that infected person.
Maybe time to not let them on the bus. I was refused entry on the bus a few years ago because I only had a $20 note. I had no money as I normally walked to work. my boss lent me money, but only had a $20 note, to get home from the hospital after I had broken a bone in my foot. I was on crutches and had to walk home On crutches. I survived.
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As a bus driver doing a lot of the metro routes, including via St Lukes to New Lynn, Wynyard Quarter, City, I can tell you that Hop Cards are OK, but not everyone uses them. We get too many freeloaders on our buses and have done for months; people holding out $20, knowing full well we take no cash; people whose Hop Cards have no credit so don't register; people who walk on without a qualm because they know that we drivers have been told not to question them or argue; people who know Auckland Transport has no intention of policing buses for non-paying passengers, so don't hold your breath that we'll get a trace on that infected person.
Maybe time to not let them on the bus. I was refused entry on the bus a few years ago because I only had a $20 note. I had no money as I normally walked to work. my boss lent me money, but only had a $20 note, to get home from the hospital after I had broken a bone in my foot. I was on crutches and had to walk home On crutches. I survived.
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