The merchant bankers at First Capital, owner of NZ Bus, will be hoping their PR gurus will have a bit more fizz and bite than their carbonated namesakes. Given how last week’s NZBustastrophe ended, NZ Bus either received very bad PR advice from Thompson Lewis or else ignored very good PR advice from Thompson Lewis and locked out its drivers. It is quite difficult to unite GWRC (Greater Wellington Regional Council), the mayor, his councillors, the Tramways Union, the Combined Trade Unions, the minister of transport and the vast majority of the city’s highly annoyed bus commuters – but NZ Bus has done it.