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18:10:13 on Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Portsmouth Rider
remarked:
It seems to me that you have missed the point (as well as your stop).

The passengers, as explained upthread, are on the bus by virtue of being
rail passengers whose train is not running. The faux-bus-service, as you put
it, is the bit where the driver is expected to make irregular stops to set
down some of those passengers who are unable to plan their journey from
their destination station, to their home, adequately.

The reason they couldn't plan their journey is because the rail service
has unexpectedly collapsed and needs to replaced by a bus.

Therefore their arrival at the destination station has been much
delayed.

Or perhaps everyone should plan for their 'train/bus' to be routinely an
hour late getting them home. It certainly fits the operational criteria
being trotted out in this thread a great deal better.

And what if their planned trip from the destination station to home was
by a scheduled bus, and because they've been delayed they've missed the
last bus? Doesn't that shift the responsibility a bit back to the
bustituion service to drop them off closer to home, if they happen to be
passing?

[True story: Late one evening trains from St Pancras to Nottingham were
being terminated at East Midlands Parkway, with a bus to Nottingham.

A direct bus would have passed the end of my road (on the outskirts of
Nottingham) avoiding a futile trip ten minutes further to the railway
station plus a taxi back.

But they were sending all the buses via Beeston, which because of the
lack of river crossings adds considerably to both the time and distance,
however the route they would have taken was still within half a mile of
the end of my road, and I'd have gladly walked - to avoid the scenic
tour of Beeston and that taxi again.

In fact, I cut my evening in London short and caught the last through
train, because the bustitution was planned; but it could just as easily
have been a surprise bustitution resulting from some sort of incident.]
--
Roland Perry