On 22 Feb, 18:37, Offramp wrote:
On 22 Feb, 17:44, Mizter T wrote:





On Feb 22, 4:45*pm, Offramp wrote:

On 22 Feb, 10:09, " wrote:

On Feb 22, 9:34 am, "Ian F." wrote:

"Offramp" wrote:

LOROL! The yokels at The Sunday Times don't know that the 25 is a
bendibus.

What is there in that story to say that they don't know it's a bendy bus?

Presumably the fact that the reporter was naive enough to think that
they (or anyone else) actually paid 2 for the journey!

Yes... That was it. The reporter thought that the customers paid £2
for each journey. No one paid anything, ever. I like the buses but the
agglomeration of heroin addicts on some routes was too much.

Which routes?

I did once hound off a couple of high-as-kites scaggies from a Red
Arrow bendy. Quite enjoyable - they were so paranoid and yet so
utterly desperate to argue that they were level-headed, sane
individuals. But that's no different from many proper addicts.

Oh, and if you're trying to say that no bendy bus passengers ever pay
for their journey, that's quite wrong. Fare evasion is certainly
higher than other buses, no doubt (I'd say that's almost an
inevitability), but it's ******** to say most people don't pay when
they do.

FWIW, I really do think there's an argument in saying that the layout
of bendy buses works to provide a safe environment in the sense that
all passengers are easily visible to each other - for example compare
it with the back of a top-deck, which is the classic haunt of ne'er-do-
wells. (Though it's often just folk trying to perpetrate a shifty
image rather than actually doing anything.)

My experience is almost entirely on the 436. It is hard to say how
many people have valid tickets. People with paper tickets need do
nothing, and people with any non-PAYG Oyster should touch in but will
probably get away with not doing so if checked.

No, it's not hard to know how many people have valid tickets. You
already know that no one paid anything, ever, or you wouldn't have
said so.

And "get away with" what exactly?


I will really miss the bendies, both as a father of two who found them
so easy to use and as a commuter who found them easy and fast to get
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