Auckland Transport and/or KiwiRail shutting down the entire rail network and then running buses through every station in the network, down every congested street and back road in the city. I'm used to European rail substitution where there's shuttle buses around the closed-down area that get you from one side to the other as quickly as possible with almost no waiting. I was expecting the same here but after a 25-minute wait for a bus to finally turn up (during peak traffic time in the afternoon, leaving people waiting because the sole bus they'd scheduled couldn't take them all) after it wound its way painfully out through every station I realised they were going to run it along the entire rail system from start to finish, via back streets.

 

 

This, alongside things like buses that feed into each other being de-synchronised (995 feeds the 997 but there's a fifty minute wait in each direction because the schedules don't line up) and buses that can't decide whether they're direct links or local buses (120, the sole bus that shuttles people from the North Shore to West Auckland which for half its run is a direct bus and for the other half goes down every back street in the area, the only people I ever seen on there are pensioners who have all day to get to their destination) further reinforces my belief that no-one at AT ever takes a train or bus, or possibly even knows what a train or bus is.