Skidding, speeding bus driver dobbed in

A bus driver is being investigated for driving dangerously on a late night Auckland City route.

Passenger Stella Johnson told Auckland Transport she feared for her safety during a bus ride home on Tuesday at 10.40pm.

Johnson claimed the driver of bus 258 was going so fast he was forced to slam on the brakes to pick up a passenger waiting on Mt Eden Rd.

"He didn't see someone standing at the stop and had to jam on the brakes and literally skidded the entire bus about five metres, and stopped in the middle of the intersection," Johnson said.

He then whizzed through a set of traffic lights on Dominion Rd at 60km/h to 70km/h.

"I wanted to get off and switch buses because if something happened there is no way he would have been able to control the bus.

"I didn't feel that he would have had enough control of the speed of the bus or handling to have safely avoided a collision."

Auckland Transport spokesman Wally Thomas said complaints about dangerous driving were taken seriously and the contracted company, NZ Bus, had been asked to investigate.

NZ Bus chief operating officer Shane McMahon said dedicated bus trainers would observe the driver on the road as part of the investigation.

He denied Johnson's claims that bus drivers were pressured to meet tight schedules. "We say obey the rules of the road, come to work safe and go home safe," McMahon said. Timetables reflected running times on the road.