Glitch with electric bus

One of Wellington’s new electric doubledecker buses had to abandon its trip after briefly breaking down in central Wellington. The bus, operated by Tranzit, broke down on Lambton Quay yesterday morning, with passengers forced to get off the bus and wait for another one. A Tranzit spokeswoman said the driver was able to ‘‘reboot’’ the bus within about five minutes, before it was driven back to the company’s Rongotai depot. A group of pedestrians decided to try to push start the bus but were not able to do so, the spokeswoman said.