An armed attack in daylight on a Wellington taxi driver has renewed calls for cameras in cabs, despite industry claims that the Government is reluctant to support the move.
The latest call comes after two women held a gun to a Wellington taxi driver’s head and demanded his earnings, before stealing the taxi from Te Aro [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 29, 2009
Attack spurs new call for cab cameras.
July 27, 2009
Two women arrested after Wellington taxi robbery.
Two women have been arrested after a taxi driver was robbed and his cab stolen, in a broad daylight attack in central Wellington.
They have been charged with aggravated robbery, police said.
An imitation pistol, believed to have been used in the weekend incident had also been found.
Detective Paul Baskett of Wellington police said the women were [...]
July 27, 2009
Armed women rob taxi driver.
A taxi driver has had a pistol held to his head by two women in an attack in central Wellington.
The pair robbed him of his earnings before they stole his cab.
Detective Paul Baskett said the women were picked up by the Wellington Combined Taxis driver in Kilbirnie and taken to Arlington Apartments in Te Aro [...]
July 27, 2009
Snapper to bite back?
Snapper will not rule out installing its smartcard system on parent Infratil’s 705 Auckland buses, despite probably missing out on a deal to provide an integrated ticketing system to the Auckland Regional Transport Authority.
The authority announced last week that it had selected a consortium led by French technology firm Thales as its preferred supplier of [...]
July 23, 2009
French firm snaps contract.
Wellington’s Snapper card could be swallowed by a bigger fish after owner Infratil failed to hook a key contract in Auckland.
The Transport Agency plans to provide tens of millions of dollars for an integrated ticketing system in Auckland that will let passengers pay for bus, train and ferry travel using a different smartcard.
Transport Agency chief [...]
July 23, 2009
Snapper preferred tenderer for Total Mobility.
Snapper, the company that runs the smart card system on Wellington and Hutt Valley buses, has been chosen as the preferred tenderer for the provision of an electronic card service for Greater Wellington’s Total Mobility scheme.
Total Mobility is a subsidised taxi service for about 7,500 people in the Wellington region who, because of a disability, [...]
