In New Zealand, Intercity Coaches is complaining that council subsidies are competing with its own services - which receive no subsidy from councils. The complaint states that councils are increasingly putting city to city services up to tender - having ignored city to city travel for years. Maybe the fact that InterCity charges up to $26 for the trip between Tauranga and Rotorua (an 80 minute journey), has something to do with Environment Bay of Plenty subsidising another service. Aucklanders might pay $7 for that kind of trip, and less if they bought a monthly ticket!

No wonder so many Kiwis travel by car!