Why don't city buses form loops at the end of their outward run from central transport hubs? That way, with almost the same resource use, people could bus between the neighbourhoods at the end of the lines. Without coming all the way in to central interchanges, or the orbiter services, which usually connect the suburbs halfway between the centre and the end of each line.
I find it very frustrating that information about public transport routes and stops in Aotearoa aren't easily available in apps that use OSM and other open geographical data (eg OSMAnd+), or the transport apps I can find in F-Droid (eg Transportr).
Also that public transport planners in Aotearoa aren't collaborating on a single app and website, as well as (or instead of) their region-specific ones.
@strypey yeah, that's sad. I wonder if there's a belief that because it's all run by volunteers, non-volunteers should ignore it. Whereas almost the opposite is true, especially with regard to contributions from official sources. At least the public toilets in New Zealand are pretty reliable - it's weirdly become one of my core uses of OpenStreetMap as I get older :-)
@karora
AFAICT the only thing missing is regional councils publishing up-to-date public transport information using open data standards. The NZ map data in OSM is very accurate because LINZ releases the official data is under CC licenses, and there are folks in the kiwi OpenGeo community who make sure updates to the LINZ data get uploaded to OSM.
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