On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:18:13 +0100, "spammy" wrote:

twice in recent times ive been on a bus thats waited at a particular stop
for up to 5 mins cos they were "ahead of schedule". the first time it was
before the terminating stop, so i dont think it was for the benefit of any
customers who may miss the bus.

is this normal, or is it a new policy? and should passengers accept the
wait? this morning i coulda walked faster to the the station, and would have
if i knew the driver would delay.


It's certainly not a new policy - from personal memory this was a
common occurence on route 14 around 1985-6 when I used if a lot in the
evenings. In practice it usually happened then if a crew was going
off duty as they didn't want to get to the garage too early.

Martin