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Mana Coach Services Nos. 204 & 202 at Paraparaumu 30/4/2019
Two of three Howick & Eastern liveried buses from Auckland captured still stored in the yard on the western side of the Paraparaumu Railway Station which used to be a hub for bus services operating between Paraparaumu and Waikanae up until units started operating on the line between Paraparaumu and Waikanae in February 2011.
The electrification of the line from Paraparaumu to Waikanae was the Wellington system's first major extension since the Paekakariki to Paraparaumu extension in 1983 which saw the Ganz Mavag EMU's entering service. The Waikanae extension saw the introduction of the Matangi units to the system.
Mana Coach Services buses have been stored in this yard since Uzabus took over the Paraparaumu and Waikanae bus routes on 15 July 2018.
Operator - Mana Coach Services - Wellington - InMotion Group
Depot - Kapiti
Fleet Number - 204
Registration - XE7290
Chassis Type - MAN 11.190
Chassis No. - 7AB7520554AX00419
Body Manufacturer - Fairfax
Body Date - 1998
Status - Withdrawn
Seating Codes - B43DW
Notes - STORED; by 08/2018. Ex (103) XE7290, Howick & Eastern Buses, East Tamaki - InMotion Group.
Livery – H&E
www.businfo.nz/index.php?R=4939
Operator - Mana Coach Services - Wellington - InMotion Group
Depot - Kapiti
Fleet Number - 202
Registration - WY7811
Chassis Type - MAN 11.190
Chassis No. - 7AB7520618AS00414
Body Manufacturer - Coachwork Auckland
Body Date - 1998
Status - Withdrawn
Seating Codes - B43DW
Notes - STORED; by 08/2018. Ex (102) WY7811, Howick & Eastern Buses, East Tamaki - InMotion Group.
Livery - H&E
www.businfo.nz/index.php?R=4938
BUS CRISIS SPARKS WAR OF WORDS BETWEEN WELLINGTON'S CITY AND REGIONAL COUNCILLORS
By Dileepa Fonseka, 2 May 2019
City and regional councillors took to their keyboards in a war of words as voters fired off emails to city councillors blaming them for the capital's bus crisis.
Emails between Wellington City councillors and Greater Wellington Regional councillors released under the Official Information Act reveal heated exchanges between councillors in both organisations before and after changes to the city's bus network were made on July 15, 2018.
They also show confusion among the general public over the roles of the two councils with many members of the public blaming city councillors for the bus network changes when the regional council actually operates and runs the bus network.
Regional councillors fired back at their WCC counterparts with one accusing a councillor of being "sanctimonious", asking another to stop sending group emails with complaints, and levelling insults over the city's handling of the Island Bay cycleway.
Rongotai MP and former Deputy Mayor Paul Eagle said he would be happy to act as a mediator between the two organisations after being blind carbon copied into some of the emails.
"The frustrations have boiled over so badly now people won't talk to each other."
Many of the emails were prompted by complaints to city councillors from members of the public about the buses.
City councillors Chris Calvi-Freeman, Diane Calvert, Simon Woolf, and Sarah Free appear to have been the most prolific at forwarding those complaints on.
A month after the bus changes came through Woolf told regional council chairman Chris Laidlaw: "You need to be upfront, and discontinue the comms spin."
Laidlaw replied: "There have been numerous times in the last couple of years when we regional councillors could have openly called on WCC to get its act together over issues like botched cycleways and on-street parking but we have chosen not to in deference to the other council."
Months before the network was due to change over, WCC councillors discussed more direct action too: postponing a vote on a bus stop in Broadmeadows to force a change in one part of the bus network.
Calvi-Freeman wrote that the delay would encourage GWRC to "kindly reconsider" a decision to run a two-way bus route through Broadmeadows as part of their network changes.
The most colourful responses to city council complaints came from regional councillor Daran Ponter.
On Thursday Ponter said he stood by those comments which included calling Woolf "condescending and sanctimonious" and throwing a sarcastic barb at Free: "Sarah, do you want to put your megaphone away?"
Mayor Justin Lester said his role was to make sure the two organisations could work together while also defending his own councillors' views.
"It would be politically easy for me to blame the regional council and throw them under the proverbial bus, I choose not to do that."
Eagle said the city council had now gone direct to GWRC's bus provider, NZ Bus, for briefings on the bus situation.
Wellington Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive John Milford said both councils were interdependent when it came to buses and he would expect "robust discussion" had taken place over the bus network changes.
"You would hope turf protection doesn't come into it and that they're both working for the good of the ratepayers and the public."
BUS BREAKDOWN - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WCC & GWRC
- Greater Wellington Regional Council runs the buses and operates the bus network for Wellington city and the greater Wellington region.
- Wellington City Council is responsible for bus stops, bus lanes and bus priority signals at traffic lights for buses within the city area. - Stuff
Mana Coach Services Nos. 204 & 202 at Paraparaumu 30/4/2019
Two of three Howick & Eastern liveried buses from Auckland captured still stored in the yard on the western side of the Paraparaumu Railway Station which used to be a hub for bus services operating between Paraparaumu and Waikanae up until units started operating on the line between Paraparaumu and Waikanae in February 2011.
The electrification of the line from Paraparaumu to Waikanae was the Wellington system's first major extension since the Paekakariki to Paraparaumu extension in 1983 which saw the Ganz Mavag EMU's entering service. The Waikanae extension saw the introduction of the Matangi units to the system.
Mana Coach Services buses have been stored in this yard since Uzabus took over the Paraparaumu and Waikanae bus routes on 15 July 2018.
Operator - Mana Coach Services - Wellington - InMotion Group
Depot - Kapiti
Fleet Number - 204
Registration - XE7290
Chassis Type - MAN 11.190
Chassis No. - 7AB7520554AX00419
Body Manufacturer - Fairfax
Body Date - 1998
Status - Withdrawn
Seating Codes - B43DW
Notes - STORED; by 08/2018. Ex (103) XE7290, Howick & Eastern Buses, East Tamaki - InMotion Group.
Livery – H&E
www.businfo.nz/index.php?R=4939
Operator - Mana Coach Services - Wellington - InMotion Group
Depot - Kapiti
Fleet Number - 202
Registration - WY7811
Chassis Type - MAN 11.190
Chassis No. - 7AB7520618AS00414
Body Manufacturer - Coachwork Auckland
Body Date - 1998
Status - Withdrawn
Seating Codes - B43DW
Notes - STORED; by 08/2018. Ex (102) WY7811, Howick & Eastern Buses, East Tamaki - InMotion Group.
Livery - H&E
www.businfo.nz/index.php?R=4938
BUS CRISIS SPARKS WAR OF WORDS BETWEEN WELLINGTON'S CITY AND REGIONAL COUNCILLORS
By Dileepa Fonseka, 2 May 2019
City and regional councillors took to their keyboards in a war of words as voters fired off emails to city councillors blaming them for the capital's bus crisis.
Emails between Wellington City councillors and Greater Wellington Regional councillors released under the Official Information Act reveal heated exchanges between councillors in both organisations before and after changes to the city's bus network were made on July 15, 2018.
They also show confusion among the general public over the roles of the two councils with many members of the public blaming city councillors for the bus network changes when the regional council actually operates and runs the bus network.
Regional councillors fired back at their WCC counterparts with one accusing a councillor of being "sanctimonious", asking another to stop sending group emails with complaints, and levelling insults over the city's handling of the Island Bay cycleway.
Rongotai MP and former Deputy Mayor Paul Eagle said he would be happy to act as a mediator between the two organisations after being blind carbon copied into some of the emails.
"The frustrations have boiled over so badly now people won't talk to each other."
Many of the emails were prompted by complaints to city councillors from members of the public about the buses.
City councillors Chris Calvi-Freeman, Diane Calvert, Simon Woolf, and Sarah Free appear to have been the most prolific at forwarding those complaints on.
A month after the bus changes came through Woolf told regional council chairman Chris Laidlaw: "You need to be upfront, and discontinue the comms spin."
Laidlaw replied: "There have been numerous times in the last couple of years when we regional councillors could have openly called on WCC to get its act together over issues like botched cycleways and on-street parking but we have chosen not to in deference to the other council."
Months before the network was due to change over, WCC councillors discussed more direct action too: postponing a vote on a bus stop in Broadmeadows to force a change in one part of the bus network.
Calvi-Freeman wrote that the delay would encourage GWRC to "kindly reconsider" a decision to run a two-way bus route through Broadmeadows as part of their network changes.
The most colourful responses to city council complaints came from regional councillor Daran Ponter.
On Thursday Ponter said he stood by those comments which included calling Woolf "condescending and sanctimonious" and throwing a sarcastic barb at Free: "Sarah, do you want to put your megaphone away?"
Mayor Justin Lester said his role was to make sure the two organisations could work together while also defending his own councillors' views.
"It would be politically easy for me to blame the regional council and throw them under the proverbial bus, I choose not to do that."
Eagle said the city council had now gone direct to GWRC's bus provider, NZ Bus, for briefings on the bus situation.
Wellington Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive John Milford said both councils were interdependent when it came to buses and he would expect "robust discussion" had taken place over the bus network changes.
"You would hope turf protection doesn't come into it and that they're both working for the good of the ratepayers and the public."
BUS BREAKDOWN - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WCC & GWRC
- Greater Wellington Regional Council runs the buses and operates the bus network for Wellington city and the greater Wellington region.
- Wellington City Council is responsible for bus stops, bus lanes and bus priority signals at traffic lights for buses within the city area. - Stuff