London Banter - View Single Post - Drivers telling passengers to use the emergency buttons...

Portsmouth Rider · November 23rd 12, 12:44 PM posted to uk.transport.buses,uk.transport.london

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 12:45:19 on Fri, 23 Nov
2012, d remarked:
And those passengers who don't want to get off in the high street are
delayed because of you. How is that fair?

Everyone's already been delayed by the bustitution. Another fifteen
seconds isn't going to make any difference.

Sure, if its just you. But then Mable wants to get off at Bingo. Tracy
wants
to get off at Mothercare down the road and Kev wants to get off at the
Dole
office. Eventually half the passengers have got off before the next
station
and the bus is 10 minutes late.

The trip I had in mind was between a few small villages and their
stations. No Bingo, Mothercare or dole office in any of them.

One stop per village was all I was asking for (in the High Street, not at
the station which was on the outskirts).

I will admit that some bus drivers are jobsworths and will absolutely
refuse
to
open the doors even if stuck in traffic 10 metres from a stop which is
just
being bloody minded for the sake of it, but if you're going to use a bus
you have to accept its not your personal transport.

I was attempting to use a train!

Yeah well, you were on a bus. You must have known there was a bus
replacement
service so you could always have taken the car instead.

When I went to work in the morning everything was fine. By the evening,
trains were cancelled and buses put in place.

These things happen.

Sometimes it's because of a car driver trying - and failing - to beat the
level crossing gates, he gets to Heaven a few years early, hundreds of other
people get home several hours late, and a dozen or so bus drivers get their
day off buggered up because they get called in for a rail replacement.

Mind you - there are NEVER any delays on motorways, are there? And our
ferries ALWAYS run exactly to schedule. And I can't remember the last time
an airliner crashed......

I can, however, think of one case of a train service running to replace a
failed bus service

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