A couple of weeks ago on March 19, I had one of those interesting days where everything transport fit snugly together.
I didn’t think it would start out that way because I’d missed my initial bus (a 241 starting at Owairaka).
I got on the following 233 – a bus that dillies around the St Lukes mall. Not content with that, I jumped off at the point on Sandringham Rd where the two sets of routes join up and got on the next bus to turn up – a 246.
Not only did that bus pass the St Lukes one, it also passed the 241 I had missed to start with.
I got off this bus at Kingsland Station and ran onto the train that was there, which then proceeded to pass the bus I’d just got off.
If I hadn’t missed the initial bus, I’d not have made it on the train. That was the fastest PT trip I’d had in from our Mt Albert home, ever.
Coming home in the evening I figured it couldn’t get any better than that.
It did 
Non-stop to Kingsland with just me on board (single-occupant train?). Outside we're bypassing Newmarket.
Arriving at Britomart off my North Shore bus, I headed down the escalator at 4:48 to find a train on Platform 5 going straight to Kingsland at 4:50, non stop. And a whole carriage, just for me!
We passed a lot of confused people at Boston Rd and Mt Eden wondering why the train wasn’t stopping.
Once at Kingsland, the wait for my bus was a whole thirty seconds.
If only it could be like that every day…
Ok, so the train was for the rugby, but at 4:50, two and a half hours before kick-off, few others were there to use it. I think there were about five or six others in the carriage behind. Nobody in the two cars in front.
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