Paul Weaver wrote:
Buses must be very unreliable

Not quite.
It's the bureaucratic rules.

If the door alarm won#'t shut up, if the ramp won't work, if anything isn't
'perfect', then the bus has to go out of service.

And if it's a major problem, it's more visible, as it sits for hours waiting
for the company's contract tow truck - gone are the days when the nearest
garage could retrieve a broken bus.

Just one of the prices we have to pay for a privatised service.
--

Andrew

Interviewer: Tonight I'm interviewing that famous nurse, Florence
Nightingale
Tommy Cooper (dressed as a nurse): Sir Florence Nightingale
Interviewer: *Sir* Florence Nightingale?
Tommy Cooper: I'm a Night Nurse

Campaign For The Real Tommy Cooper

"Andrew Heenan" typed


Paul Weaver wrote:
Buses must be very unreliable

Not quite.
It's the bureaucratic rules.

If the door alarm won#'t shut up, if the ramp won't work, if anything isn't
'perfect', then the bus has to go out of service.

Don't kid yourself. The ramps don't work in almost half the buses I try
to use and they're never taken out of service for that reason IME.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.