Subjection!
Poor, unloved, disparaged, AT. What a thing to happen.
In the Game of Thrones version, smirking Little Lord Simeon orders them to disrobe and commands them to parade along K Road, across the rainbow crossings, down Queen Street to Britomart while being pelted with trash, rotten produce and Big Mac boxes.
Here in drab dismal reality, all that happened was Minister Brown and Mayor Brown stood up, in front of every New-Zealand-You-Little-Beauty flag they could find, and announced that Auckland Transport was being stripped of all its strategy and planning functions and told to get on with running the buses.