Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
Mrs Redboots typed


Helen Deborah Vecht wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 15 May
2005:

"Chris!" typed


Some of the new deckers have a CCTV camera peering out the front
window
with a display on the inside. Also, on all deckers you can see
out the
front windows upstairs but of course some people are unable to
get
upstairs

Some people are unable to get up the stairs. Far more are
unwilling.
There'd be little downstairs crowding if those who could go
upstairs
did...

The trouble is that if you are only going a couple of stops (and
the use
of passes encourages this, I'm afraid), it's hardly worthwhile
going
upstairs, since by the time you have, it's time to turn round and
come
downstairs again, given that bus drivers don't believe you want to
get
off if you aren't standing by the doors when the bus pulls away
from the
stop before yours!

I think staying downstairs for a short hop is fine. Clogging the
lobby
or sitting on 'Priority Seats' when fit and spry, for miles and miles
is
not.

And if you have a lot of shopping, or luggage, then
you don't particularly want to go upstairs (although if I'm coming
back
from the West End I do, since I wouldn't enjoy such a long bus
journey
downstairs).

You aren't one of the yoofertoday, who seem to be the worst
offenders.

In my experience everyone is as bad as each other at clogging up the
downstairs bit. If you try and get a bus from outside a suburban train
station at about 6pm the whole downstairs section is clogged up with
suites whilst the upstairs is empty