A brief history of integrated ticketing in major north island centres
- Wellington adopts Snapper de facto as NZ Bus rolls it out unilaterally across their fleet
- Snapper also goes into NZ Bus's Auckland buses
- An independent system for Auckland (to be called Hop) is chosen
- NZ Bus argues, lobbies, takes Auckland Transport to court, ultimately ends up replacing Snapper with Hop in Auckland
- After Hop has proved itself for a few years across a significantly larger number of passengers and transactions, NZTA recommends that Wellington switches to Hop as a step toward a nationwide system
- Crickets...
- And then today the news is Auckland Transport is going to join the Wellington-initiated GRETS nationwide integrated ticket plan
According to the article, GRETS has been plagued with delays and has already failed a number of regional partners. But it rolls on, because some person or group is absolutely determined that Wellington will either keep Snapper forever, or be in control of the new system the rest of the country is to use. "Fishy" would be an appropriate adjective to use
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