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The Week in Detail: Wayne Brown, banks, and nuclear power
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Auckland Transport explains service cancellations
Auckland Transport is slashing its bus timetable to avoid the uncertainty of hundreds of daily trip cancellations due to driver shortages.
From Sunday November 6 bus trips that are regularly canned… Video, Audio
Auckland Transport cuts services to reduce cancellations
Auckland Transport has announced cancelled bus journeys will now not exist at all. It says from Sunday, services that are being regularly cancelled because of the bus driver shortage will be suspended… Video, Audio
Shot bro? Covid-19 vaccination buses jab 400 in first week
Nearly a week since their launch, Auckland's shiny new vaccination buses have given the shot to just over 400 people.
But several of the promised buses are yet to hit the road.
Checkpoint went in… Video, Audio
Live cross to the Auckland 'Liberate the Lane' rally
Bike Auckland's Liberate the Lane took place at Point Erin Park in Ponsonby this morning, before the cyclists made their way across the harbour bridge. The Chair and Spokesperson for Bike Auckland… Audio
Dawn chorus as Wellington bus drivers start 24-hour strike
It was a noisy wake-up call for some Wellington residents this morning, as bus drivers on strike started the picket line well before sunrise in one of the capital's suburbs.
Chants, car horns, and a… Video, Audio
Witnesses describe dramatic central Auckland bus crash
People who saw an out-of-control tour bus crashing into a mother and child in central Auckland expected to find them dead when they rushed to help. Incredibly, both the woman and the baby escaped with… Audio
NZ Bus told to ‘hand the buses back to the ratepayers’
NZ Bus has received more than 17,000 fines in five months for late buses, cancellations and using buses that were too small for the route. Now Wellington Regional Council will have to decide soon… Audio
Armed police search bus in central Wellington
Armed police hunting a robber have stopped and searched a bus in central Wellington this morning.
Bus hits pedestrians and crashes into store front
Two children and their dad were taken to hospital after a bus slammed into pedestrians before crashing into a shop in Birkenhead, on Auckland's North Shore. Video, Audio
Wellington councillors shouted down at bus meeting
Wellington councillors were shouted down by angry bus users at the first of a series of public meetings last night. The Wellington Regional Council is not making anything more than minor changes to… Audio
Tensions escalate between union and bus company
Police were called yesterday by both parties after two members of Tramways Union entered a Tranzit bus depot. Audio
Gallipoli bus fire: Passports, belongings lost
A New Zealand woman who escaped from a bus that went up in flames while travelling to Gallipoli says a lot of people lost all their belongings. The bus carrying Australians and a group of fifteen New… Audio
Fiery explosion in Afghanistan kills 73
More than 70 people have been killed in Afghanistan after two buses and a fuel tanker have collided in a fiery crash. Audio