Are you honestly saying you'd foresake an improvement in journey times
(a significant one, based on my European and London bendybus
experience) for a bus queue?

I for one wouldn't.

Neil


To me, a journey is more than a mere utilitarian journey from A to B.

The manner of getting there matters to me. For example, I would favour a
journey in a breezy Routemaster than a stuffy unopening-window heatbox of a bus
any day, and if I saw a Routemaster coming in the distance, I would wait for it
rather than get the first bus, for example, in Oxford Street.

Also, if a very full bus comes, where a seat is unlikely, I invariably wait for
the next one.

And, yes, I do want a seat, preferably near a window, and preferably upstairs,
and preferably not on the sunny side of the bus. None of these factors are
likely to be enhanced by someone pushing past me as I patiently buy my ticket,
in the same way that I NEVER push past someone else queuing for theirs, push
past someone in a shop queue, barge past someone waiting at a pelican crossing
or, come to that, if driving, push my car into a small space that might exist
between the car in front of me and the car beyond it.

These things can be summed up in one word: manners.

Marc.