For a few months buried in the Auckland Transport Monthly Board Reports (basically the monthly meeting where the business controlled by Auckland Council report to the publicly appointed people accountable for it’s actions), was the following statement in reference to replacing the now hard to purchase, but formerly very useful Discovery Day Pass (which allowed unlimited travel on most of Auckland’s Public Transport services) – personally, I used the D/P as a very cheap method of travel between Waimauku and Newmarket over multiple carriers.

Auckland Transport’s original statement to the AT Board, unedited, and in full was:

Testing of a new AT HOP Day Pass is underway for targeted
introduction by May 2014 across bus, rail and ferry. The pass will
offer greater flexibility through three separate geographic zones
compared with the existing and to be withdrawn paper Discovery Day
Pass. Existing Discovery Day Pass will remain in market until…