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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2019 9:35:21 GMT
Very off topic I know but a major bug bear of mine is when people can't even be bothered to hold a door open as you going towards them and it just gets let go in your face. Oddly enough I never seem to encounter all these probems................it does become a bit of a whingfest on here sometimes
On a more positive note my elderly mother has often mentioned the kindness she's had from total strangers, including teenagers, when using the buses
Well I did say it was very off topic and not meant in a overly serious way. If we moaning could say there is a lot of point scoring here sometimes but then that would be me windging.
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Post by rif153 on Jun 1, 2019 17:15:45 GMT
I have been known to spread elbows to allow an elderly queueing passenger to board, whilst holding back the astonished teenagers. Good on you. Some teenagers these days have no respect for the eldery. Keep up the good work
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Post by 15002 on Jun 1, 2019 17:49:20 GMT
I have been known to spread elbows to allow an elderly queueing passenger to board, whilst holding back the astonished teenagers. Good on you. Some teenagers these days have no respect for the eldery. Keep up the good work Visa versa, I’ve had some disrespectful elders when getting on the bus too
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Post by busaholic on Jun 1, 2019 17:51:30 GMT
Very off topic I know but a major bug bear of mine is when people can't even be bothered to hold a door open as you going towards them and it just gets let go in your face. Oddly enough I never seem to encounter all these probems................it does become a bit of a whingfest on here sometimes
On a more positive note my elderly mother has often mentioned the kindness she's had from total strangers, including teenagers, when using the buses
I have to admit to counting as 'elderly' these days (you know you're elderly when Jeremy Corbyn seems like a whippersnapper!) and I concur with your mother on a personal level. Unfortunately it's the bad incidents which people remember and it can shake people's confidence when they have physical frailty. Mind you, if I get angry I can let fly verbally with all barrels blazing, rather like my namesake forbear.
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Post by Green Kitten on Jun 2, 2019 16:32:53 GMT
People always queue at the East Finchley bus stop for the 263.
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Post by Pilot on Jun 2, 2019 19:50:32 GMT
People still do it at the bus stops which haven't been messed with, but when you have a pole in the midde of a 3 bus sized brackets then it's free for all. I was on 75 other day and 2 women started racing for the door and driver can't do nothing but sort of shake his head at them as they start arguing who was first to wait at the bus stop, felt like being in a third world country to be honest, zero manners. I know that public transport is supposed to be for everyone to use regardless of their financial situation and so on, but sometimes I wonder d*mn...you take a buggy for few stops it's 30C outside sunny and baking your child in the loud cramped bus is good idea, or using the I don't even know what they're called, you know when mothers strap their babies to their backs or chests...it's extremely dangerous for that on the bus especially if the parent was to fall over while walking to the seat as you are accelerating from the bus stop and so on, and this is all on the driver's head.
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Post by busaholic on Jun 2, 2019 21:21:34 GMT
People still do it at the bus stops which haven't been messed with, but when you have a pole in the midde of a 3 bus sized brackets then it's free for all. I was on 75 other day and 2 women started racing for the door and driver can't do nothing but sort of shake his head at them as they start arguing who was first to wait at the bus stop, felt like being in a third world country to be honest, zero manners. I know that public transport is supposed to be for everyone to use regardless of their financial situation and so on, but sometimes I wonder d*mn...you take a buggy for few stops it's 30C outside sunny and baking your child in the loud cramped bus is good idea, or using the I don't even know what they're called, you know when mothers strap their babies to their backs or chests...it's extremely dangerous for that on the bus especially if the parent was to fall over while walking to the seat as you are accelerating from the bus stop and so on, and this is all on the driver's head. Good point about the physical presence of the bus stop. I was travelling from the Strand at Charing Cross Station to Euston/Kings Cross by bus on a daily basis back in the day. Simple, 77/77A, Routemaster operated, queue up, hop on the back. Then LT pulled a masterstroke - make the 170 route one person operated with double deckers (one of the first DMS routes) and divert it over the 77 to Euston, in peaks at least, sharing the same stop in the Strand. Suddenly, an addition to the bus stop sign, at the bottom. Queue this side for 77/A, queue other side for 170, so you had two queues, both west and east of the bus stop. As there were three or four 77/As to every 170, most queued on the 77 side, but I quickly realised that, at the time of my train arrival and couple of minutes to cross the road, I could almost guarantee a 170 arrival within five minutes and, what's more, it was always 90% empty! So I used to form a solitary queue and be the first one onto the bus: got some funny looks sometimes in those pre-Countdown days on the lines of 'how did he know?' but all I can say was that scheduled train and bus times seemed to be able to be adhered to a lot better then in central London! It was the same running no. every day, WD7 or whatever
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Post by hangerlane on Jun 3, 2019 17:09:29 GMT
As many of you know, in Bournemouth the 50 service goes from the Interchange to Swanage via the Sandbanks ferry. In high summer the open-top buses are so popular that there were problems with boarding, and notices had to be put up to try to stop a scrum forming on boarding by requesting customers to play nicely. In this case the customers were older people using free passes. (I wasn't one of them, but I do have the pass)
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