On 23/11/2012 16:24, Mike Bristow wrote:
In article ,
Roland Perry wrote:
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here. I'm not asking
the bus driver to vary his route to drop me off, merely to let me off
the bus at a point closer to my actual destination than the station.

This will cost all the other passengers on the bus about a minute,
for the bus to slow down, stop, and for you to gather your bits and
depart, and for the driver to set off again and get back to linespeed.

But what is the overall effect if it means large numbers of passengers
can get off where they want to be, without needing a slow crawl to a
station and then a walk back to the spot the bus just passed?

If 10 people for the centre save a few minutes each, is that always
worse than the people staying on the bus losing the minute?

I realise a replacement bus company isn't paid to think about
passengers, but the railway companies might consider what passengers are
trying to achieve with their travel.
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK