"MIG" wrote in message
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On Mar 21, 2:36 pm, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:34:01 on
Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Paul Corfield 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?

There is still often a chorus of dings, particularly on bendys,
because of a five-second gap between pressing and the ding. That
could eat up quite a lot of the stopping distance too.

The delay between pressing the button and the bell on the bendis is more
like 3 seconds, actually.

That delay has only been around a year or so, and I don't know why. Earlier,
the bell would ring as soon as you hit the button on all bendis. But now,
some bendis have the delay while others do not.

Anybody know why? Is this connected with iBus?

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:36:28 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

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.

There is a particular stop by me where even this doesn't always work -
the driver is distracted coming off the roundabout and forgets. I'm
not quite sure of the solution to this, other than ringing the bell
twice, once after the previous stop and once as a reminder just before
the stop, which so far seems to work.

Neil

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Neil Williams
Put my first name before the at to reply.

In message , at 15:19:37 on
Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Paul Corfield 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.

Yes Roland - and guess what? All London buses have warning lights on
their dashboards. The point I was making, clearly very badly, was that
sometimes drivers and passengers make mistakes or act like fools in
amongst all the times that the system works correctly.

Oh well, I was suggesting something to help the allegedly deaf driver,
but if he's allegedly daft instead there's a limit to what lights can
do...
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Roland Perry