Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Bus driver Ray

Well normally the bus isnt a very pleasant experience, but it turns out that Infratil have at least one decent driver - Ray!

After witnessing a cyclist getting knocked off last week and the road rage debacle earlier in the year, I had a fairly dim view of the customer experience on our public transport. But that all changed tonight when Ray (he had a name tag!) pulled up to the stop tonight. Ray took kind old man to a new level - greeting all passengers with a "Good evening, welcome aboard" and crouching the bus for the ladies. The best bit had to be his public information announcement halfway through the journey - "Hello passengers, I just want to make sure you're all aware that there is a slight delay between the fore-door and rear door opening, but don't be concerned, I will open it at every stop. Thank you."

Clearly he was a tad crazy - but I much prefer pleasant/friendly crazy to insane threats of gun violence. Go Ray!

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