The Greater Wellington Regional Council fronted a select committee in September at Parliament over the bus debacle. A dozen contractors walked away with more than $1.6 million in the first eight months of Wellington's bus fiasco. Greater Wellington Regional Council has released its spend on external contractors brought in over the problem-plagued reinvention of the capital's bus operations since July, 2018. CAMERON BURNELL/STUFF Greater Wellington has spent $1.6 million on external contractors over the region's bus problems. KEVIN STENT/STUFF Greater Wellington chairman Chris Laidlaw and councillor Barbara Donaldson at a select committee briefing on Wellington's bus problems in 2018.

Source: Stuff April 14, 2019 04:25 UTC