In message
, at
07:50:53 on Sat, 21 Mar 2009, MIG
remarked:
Yes and I have seen the exact opposite happy - bell rung twice, in good
time for the stop, and the bus drives straight past and the driver
alleges not hearing the bell.

That's easily solved with a light next to the driver that comes on as
soon as someone rings a bell, saying "STOPPING". All my local buses have
one.

I've often wondered: does that light visible to passengers after you
ding already correspond to something the driver can't ignore (tangent
on safety comes to mind) or is is just to inform other passengers that
someone has already dung?

Mainly the latter, but it would also settle arguments with the driver as
to whether the ding had been dung.
--
Roland Perry