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Drivers telling passengers to use the emergency buttons...
"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message , at 13:59:40 on Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Portsmouth Rider remarked: In short: the rail replacement service is NOT a Local Bus Service and does not operate under the licences issued by the Traffic Commissioners as a Local Bus Service, and a driver who takes it upon himself to provide such a service without lawful excuse is breaking the law. That's a new excuse. Up to now I'd been trying to debunk the concept that their insurance would be invalid because they were dropping people off at highly dangerous bus stops that apparently only regular buses can safely drop people at. Or that stopping to do so will trash their schedule. As for running a faux-local-bus-service, I doubt if anyone on such buses wants to be there. They'd rather be on the train that was cancelled. It's ridiculous to expect someone might be hovering at the railway station on the off-chance of a bustitution that might go past their house. -- Roland Perry It seems to me that you have missed the point (as well as your stop). The passengers, as explained upthread, are on the bus by virtue of being rail passengers whose train is not running. The faux-bus-service, as you put it, is the bit where the driver is expected to make irregular stops to set down some of those passengers who are unable to plan their journey from their destination station, to their home, adequately. I don't think anyone has countenanced the possibility of someone hovering at the railway station on the off-chance of a bustitution that might go past their house. You have had the law stated to you; you have had other factors, as to why the bus should not drop people off as and when they wish, stated to you as well. These reasons are not mutually exclusive. If you buy a ticket to X railway station, you get conveyed to X railway station. What next..... a demand for a refund because your journey was actually shorter??? |
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