When is an eBus not an eBus, and what exactly is an eBus in the first place?
These were questions that were pondered by Tasman district councillors during a recent meeting – who sought to clarify if the ‘e’ in the recently launched eBus service was for everybody, or if it in fact meant electric.
During Thursday’s operations committee meeting, councillor Mike Kininmonth said he and another councillor had been to the Māpua and Districts Community Association that week, where had been some discussion about eBus and what ‘e’ stood for.
“A number of people present, grey haired like myself, said it was electric, and it was confirmed in the meeting that it is not ‘e’ for electric, but ‘e ‘for everybody. Is that true?
“And have you been having any sort of complaints because one of the buses that goes through Māpua is not electric, it’s diesel. Is that the reason why it’s ‘e’, because it’s everybody’s bus, not just electric?”
Transportation manager Jamie McPherson said the decision around the naming of the bus was made by the Joint Nelson Tasman regional transport committee.
