No, Nick, how have I shifted the goalposts?

I "kicked off" when buses failed to stop - when I had suspected they
are supposed to, since that is what has happened in other diversions of
which I have known, but did not know at that stage that a public
announcement had been made confirming what I had suspected.

So, having had my suspicions confirmed, I am even more justified in
criticising drivers for not stopping. By doing so they are not only
acting without any human feeling whatsoever, they are actually in
breach of their employment contracts.

Let me make it clear however, that I would have been justified in my
criticism even if drivers had not been instructed to stop on diversion
stops. In the general betterment of humanity, i.e. moving as many
passengers as efficiently as possible, I have yet to read a single
cogent argument against buses stopping on diversion. They are meant to
be providing a SERVICE to US: our fares and taxes are not merely being
paid so as to provide comfortable seats for drivers to occupy whilst
their virtually empty buses move at crawling pace on a diversion.

Let me also make it clear that, in all things, as a human being I would
act as my CONSCIENCE dictated in any event and, if my bus was held up
in a traffic jam opposite a long queue of people, I personally could
not have failed to open the door to see if I could offer assistance. In
the unlikely event that this led to disciplinary action against me, I'd
be more than happy to fight my case and no Industrial Tribunal in the
country would (if it went that far) uphold a dismissal for such an act
of human decency.

Marc.