When the wheels actually fell off the bus (driver shortages)
OPINION: Previously a director of NZ Bus, Tim Brown rebuts the history in Dita de Boni’s column.
Driver shortages have caused many service cancellations.
Tim BrownMon, 05 Dec 2022
Understanding history helps avoid repeating mistakes. Dita De Boni’s article about the background to the current bus driver shortfall misses several key details and is mistaken about the role played by past National governments.
In the 1990s, the respective councils sold the Auckland and
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