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Tim Roll-Pickering · January 20th 12, 12:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london

d wrote:

For the final time - no one bloody cares! Do you honestly think people
look
around at fellow passengers wondering if they've paid the fare?

It was quite a common comment by many that they assumed that, albeit
usually
only stated once they were off the buses.

Hmm , I wonder. And did it stop them using the bus? It seems not.

In most cases they had no choice.

And are you
seriously suggesting that in each bus there were dozens of fare dodgers
who
would otherwise have walked?? Get real.

Well how do you explain the preference of many very short hoppers around
Stratford and the Romford Road for the bendy 25 over the doubl decker 86?
Or

Probably because people prefered getting on a bendy bus instead of
struggling
onto a double decker especially if they had shopping or kids or had
trouble
walking. If you're not that mobile then getting up the stairs on a moving
bus isn't much fun.

They did not have shopping or kids (not that you'd want to take significant
amounts of shopping on a ram packed bendy like the 25 was). They were just
taking advantage of the free bus for a few stops.

the more bearable loadings on the 25 now it's a double decker?

How many more double deckers compared to bendies are they running on that
route?

I don't have the statistic to hand, but it's a not a 1:1 conversion ratio.

And here's one for you - if the bendies were so fantastic and the double
deckers clearly so outdated why weren't there bendies on more routes?