Bright blue went to North Shore, bright green went to Waitakere, myriad colours in a Pacific motif went to Manukau. Auckland bus routes are served by private companies contracted to AT. Too little credit was given to the Infratil-owned company, NZ Bus, when it gave different parts of Auckland a distinctive colour scheme. If AT was a commercial operation like NZ Bus it would not have needed public acclaim at this late stage to tell it the existing bus colours are popular and working well. As the bus companies' contracts come up for renewal, they will all have to paint their buses blue and grey and bear the AT logo.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 23, 2016 17:01 UTC