"Gaz" wrote in message ...
When a full bus arrives at a busy stop (Brixton in the rush hour for
example) the driver opens the back doors to let people off. If you're not
right at the front of the queue is it better to stand square on to the front
doors two or three people deep or to sneak on from the sides from further
away?

The shape of the bus 'queue', a huge flattened semi-circle of people seems
to suggest that people board from the sides faster than from the front but
whatever position I take I'm always one of the last people on the bus unless
I'm right at the front to begin with.

Gaz.

I'm sure you must have better things to worry about, but haven't you
anwered your own question? The flattened semi-circle is a age-old
pattern adopted by Londoners to access narrow doors, and - as you say
- wherever you tack on its perimiter you will get to the door last.