buses, shopping, fish and chips
Being a short description of the day.
The real test of any Wellington bus driver is the concept of multiple people – our family – travelling on the one – my – Snapper card. This is quite possible, but something that many drivers have no clue how to do. Our first driver today admitted he didn’t know how to do it, and made us pay cash for the girls’ travel; the second knew exactly what to do, and it all worked well; and the third just waved the lot of us on after I used my Snapper card just for my fare.
I think I prefer the third driver’s approach.
Later, much later, we were in Newtown and figured the easiest dinner was fish and chips down by the sea. And with a Northerly on that means the South Coast, just as another day almost four years ago.
The South Island is that-a-way. I can see it.
Soon, soon.
Mary
29 December 2008, 20:01 #
OK, so how exactly do you do multiple travellers on one snapper card? Especially mixing and matching adult and children’s fares.
Alan
29 December 2008, 20:50 #
You need to ask the driver as you get on; explain that you all want to travel on the same card. The driver will tap away on their console thing, and then you wave your Snapper card over the terminal as usual. You’ll see a larger sum debited (for the four of us it was $3.76 I think) and the complementary sum debited as you hop off to make up the journey’s full fare.
All pretty straight-forward – the driver just needs to know how to program their console properly.
Mary
1 January 2009, 19:38 #
Aha! Yes, does sound dangerously straightforward.