Thursday, 29 April 2021, 6:57 am
Last week’s illegal lockout of Wellington-based NZ Bus
drivers has yet again shown us that private businesses
simply aren’t fit to run New Zealand’s bus systems, with
this lockout becoming the latest in a long line of failures
and breakdowns under the ‘PTOM’ privatisation experiment
that must end now, FIRST Union said today.
The Public
Transport Operating Model (PTOM) is a framework developed in
2009 between Government, councils and private operators like
NZ Bus that underpins the delivery of bus services around
the country, and represents the most recent iteration in a
series of moves to privatise public transport over several