The big yellow 'lemons” are set to cost you and I another $6 million this year! I refer to the huge loss making Hopper bus service.
I raise this subject again in response to the media article by Councillor Paula Thompson. She admits the losses but states that the Regional Council is aiming for bus users to pay 35% to 40% of the cost to run the buses by 2018 ! Currently users pay only 23% of the costs.
We all see the empty buses, day after day and wonder if there is any intelligence in our regional councillors. They have been operating this Empty Bus Service for eleven years now at a combined loss of over $36 million. In 2011 alone it was a $6 million loss.
Regional Councillors, John Cronin, Philip Sherry, Douglas Owens, Paula Thompson and Jane Nees you are responsible for this huge waste of our money. You obviously run a Brainless Bureaucracy at Regional Council.
Let us get rid of these useless councillors at the coming council elections.
Ken Evans, Tauranga.
3 comments
Smokey mirrors
Posted on 05-04-2013 14:54 | By YOGI
The answer from Regional about the empty buses is that they needed to add more tint to the windows so that no one outside the bus could see that no one was on board at all. Now that is a classic way to fix that now isnt it.
Big yellow lemons' costing $6m a year
Posted on 05-04-2013 17:55 | By algail
Oh how wonderful the TCC council think tanks are. I wish I was as smart as them. Fancy putting up a fee for the busses that hardly anyone uses, non users can't pay increased fees. If there was a brain cell involved in running the busses then rather than having a huge empty bus patrolling the streets of Tauranga during the day after dark and empty that brain cell would see that a 12 seater empty bus was far more economical to run than a huge empty behemoth damaging our road surfaces as it bounces along empty.. Running at a loss is the tenant of the TCC council and ken you are on the ball in encouraging people to toss em out at the next election. Tauranga cannot survive unless this current mob are kicked out and it has to be the next election any alter and it will be too late Tauranga will go into receivership Alastair Bethlehem
Non users are paying
Posted on 06-04-2013 15:48 | By PLONKER
Cos they add it all to everyones rates, then congrats on how wonderful it is and that it makes a "surplus" because ratepayers pay all teh bills and the ticket take is a "surplus" hmmm I am sure I have seen that pattern somewhere else before?
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