On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:27 +0000, MissRiaElaine
wrote:

On 28/11/2019 19:57, Basil Jet wrote:
On 28/11/2019 19:16, Bevan Price wrote:

As a bus passenger, I notice numerous occasions when people at bus
stops (serving multiple routes) stick their arms out - after the front
of the bus has passed the stop -- and then look puzzled / annoyed when
the bus fails to stop. They must think that bus drivers are
mindreaders...

These passengers were probably queueing behind someone else and didn't
realise that the other person didn't want this bus until it was too
late. The requirement that bus passengers should queue and the
requirement that they should hail the buses conflict, unless every bus
calling at the stop is going to the same places.

Nobody queues around here. They just stand around all over the place,
blocking the pavement, smoking or fiddling with their phones, then when
a bus arrives they all try and get on at the same time with no regard to
who was there first and never mind people getting off (we don't have
separate exit doors here, unlike London. Very few places do, never
understood why).


I now never queue. I stand before the bus stop and as the bus
approaches I'll put my hand out if no-one else has. Often those that
don't are just too busy with their heads in their smartphones.
Recently one girl had looked up, seen the display for the bus change
from 1min to Due, and continued with her smartphone oblivious to the
fact the bus was now approaching.

However I do tend to get on last and I don't travel at rush hout.

On double-deckers I still like to sit at the front and observer the
"driver's" view. It is amazing how many folk assume the bus will
stop:

a) at bus stops without putting a hand out (maybe they don't know)

b) at pedestrian crossings even though they've not given any
indication that they are about to cross - not even a glance to see if
there might be a few tons of metal heading their direction. And then
they amble across without consideration that they are holding a whole
load of passengers up.


--
AnthonyL

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