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Finally from 2024, we will have a nationwide public transport card, replacing regional varieties. An agreement's been struck with Auckland Transport, Greater Wellington Regional Council, Environment Canterbury, and ten smaller councils. The card will be called NTS. Which is not the snappiest of names, but who cares? But here's the even bigger news. If you don't have a card you can just jump on a bus and swipe your credit or debit card. The big question is: why on earth has it taken so long for such a simple idea to happen?   It's because we're bloody-minded parochial people who sometimes would rather cut our own noses off than work together. HOP in Auckland was supposed to be a nationwide card but other regions were too attached to their own systems. So council after council wasted ratepayers’ dollars reinventing the same systems that other councils had either already built or investigated. But that's old news. Time for another Andrew Dickens I love public transport rave, because there aren't enough of these