Letters to the editor: Lime scooters and buses should collaborate

A reader suggests that the bus service and Lime scooters should collaborate on better routes. Photo / NZME

Your recent article on Lime scooters and the distance they travelled gave me pause for thought that Lime must have a way of tracking not only where they are located, but also the route over which they have travelled.

This then made me consider the complaints and criticisms by our public, of our public transport system.

Maybe those who plan our bus system should liaise with Lime to find out the most favoured routes that their patrons are taking.

This then should indicate in turn which routes our buses should be directed.

It is a bit like running a pathway.

A pathway should be run over an established route, rather than trying to force people to follow a path that dictated to them, and which may be inconvenient.

Chris Pattison
Pāpāmoa

Smoke and mirrors

Finance Minister Grant Robertson's Budget has been compared to Ruth Richardson's Mother of all Budgets.

I would tend to call it the Smoke Budget, for a number of reasons.

The Government is using "smoke and mirrors" on how it portrays its hundred billion dollars or so of debt as being below forecast budget, to make it seem not too bad.

But there's no smoke without fire.

Taxpayer money is again going up in smoke as it is being siphoned off to those who don't work.

Tracey McLeod
Rotorua

Trace the hackers

It concerns me that with all the publicity over the Waikato District Health Board where lives have been put at risk, nowhere do I see anger or any news of efforts being done to trace the hackers and to bring them to account.

Alf Hoyle
Rotorua

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