London Banter - View Single Post - Aston-Martin Boris bus

Adrian · December 21st 08, 06:51 AM posted to uk.transport.london

gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

Does anybody here seriously think that a new bus will be allowed with
open rear deck.

I sincerely hope so.

An open platform may make sense in Oxford Street where the speeds of
traffic are pretty slow but really anywhere else it is simply dangerous
- the only justification of an open platform is so that people can get
on and off at places which aren't bus stops - is there any other?.

Does there need to be? Isn't that compelling enough already?

Mind you, Oxford Street is the only place I saw a potential boarder fall
backwards off a Routemaster into the gutter when they missed a bus
moving off.

****ed, was he?

On the Railways, people try to open doors on Mark III carriages when the
central locking has been applied even when they are told to stop by
platform staff. On the Tube, people try to get tube doors open with the
slightest opening jamming themselves in. You can't tell me that people
won't try to board moving buses that they have just missed and that is
dangerous.

Trains don't have platforms just outside them when they're stationary at
signals.

No amount of education will change public nature.

Nor should it attempt to.