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Old People & Front Doors on Buses
Offramp wrote:
Why do old people only want to use the front doors for both? What is your evidence for that statement? I've not kept score but my perception is that the behaviour is shown most often by people with one or both of 2 characteristics: (a) people new to London* and (b) selfish gits; and they seem to me to have a lower age than the general bus population. There are of course some old people who do exit at the front but that is not surprising to me as (a) they may have spent very many years on buses where that was the only option and (b) if seated at the front they find that by far the easier and quicker route when using the middle doors so often means negotiating buggies, shopping trollies and standing passengers whose attention is 100% on their phones. -- Robin reply to address is (meant to be) valid |
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Old People & Front Doors on Buses
On Thursday, 5 November 2015 10:38:21 UTC, Robin wrote:
Offramp wrote: Why do old people only want to use the front doors for both? What is your evidence for that statement? http://documents.worldbank.org/curat...republic-congo Page 42. There are of course some old people who do exit at the front but that is not surprising to me as (a) they may have spent very many years on buses where that was the only option and (b) if seated at the front they find that by far the easier and quicker route when using the middle doors so often means negotiating buggies, shopping trollies and standing passengers whose attention is 100% on their phones. My experience is that no matter where in the front section of the bus the oldie is seated, and no matter what the congestion is like in the centre of the bus, the miscreant will always use the front door, creating the possibility of a Heysel-stadium-like disaster. |
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