Stagecoach are talking about striking. If it goes ahead they will cancel all services over a 6 day period. The thing that really caught my eye was in the article, they quoted someone from Stagecoach as saying "This will mean the loss of almost 700,000 passenger trips over the six days". My initial reaction was "IS THAT ALL?". 700,000 trips, over 6 days - that's pretty low.
The more I think about it, the less sure I am of what they're trying to say (well, it is the Herald after all) - do you think they're defining a trip as a scheduled bus route, on which many people could travel, or are they effectively saying that only 700,000 bus tickets/fares/etc would have been used over the 6 day period?
The only comparison I have is that every day 12million people ride the tube on London - yes, the population of Auckland is much smaller, but still, if they're saying there would only have been 700,000 people on the bus over 6 days then that just sounds way too low.
Herald article