London Banter - View Single Post - Optimum Position When Waiting To Board A Bus

Robin May · October 10th 04, 11:33 AM posted to uk.transport.london

(Nick Cooper) wrote the
following in:

On 10 Oct 2004 10:57:27 GMT, (Mait001) wrote:

London Transport used to have a by-l;aw requirement that an
orderly queue was required for boarding a bus.

I know it might be irrelevant for all intents and purposes, but I
can't help feeling that abolishing the by-law was a retrograde
step and sent out all the wrong messages about what is, and what
is not, civilised behaviour, at a time when many people haven't
the foggiest idea of how to behave.

It seems that the vast majority of people in London are simply
incapable of queuing for buses. The moment one turns up, everyone
who was standing scattered around within ten metres of the stop
rushes for it, blatently bypassing any poor innocents who had the
temerity to form anything like an orderly line next to the
stop/under the shelter.

I'd like it if there were still bus queues. The problem is that there
aren't, and you can't form a queue on your own. It's hard to see how to
solve this problem. I wonder why it is that bus queues used to form and
now don't?

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