On the Buses

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neonleon

neonleon

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As a regular user of public transport, I'd thought we could have a thread we're everyone talks about the general annoyance of public transport.

What should be a great idea, cheap, economical and stress free - whilst also having a more positive effect on the environment that everyone owning their own polluting combustion engine - sometimes feels like running a scummy gauntlet filled with the worst dregs of society.

I got a bus the other day in Manchester £2.80 from a suburb into town. £2.80?!!!?? For a single! May as well get a [Poor language removed] car for that price.

Here in London, its quite cheap with an oyster card - 90p a journey, and there are plenty of buses, running all through the day and night - its the people on the buses that cause it to be [Poor language removed].

The other night coming back from Camden at about 1am, some human trash wanna be gangster of about 17 decides that this is the perfect time to assault his girlfriend - bascially starts punching her in the face - the net result of this is that everyone has to decamp from the bus. Not throw the offending guy off or have him arrested. Oh no, everyone has to stand around in the [Poor language removed] freezing cold waiting for another bus that will be packed anyway.

Also all the little scalls listen to music on their phones with little tinny speakers. At least back in the day, my generation had ghetto blasters which had some bass. Torture is hearing some sad garage rap remix of craig david through a tweeter only speaker, amplified by the acoustics of a double decker whilst ttrying to read amid a sea of empty coke cans, London Metros and McDonalds wrappers.

Sometimes I have to take a "boris" just to handle the journey back.

NB: a boris is an illegal beer imbibed en route.
 

Over Christmas parking outside the Royal hospital is bad so I drove to the nearest bus stop and got the bus four stops from where I parked to the hospital and it costs£1-60p I know this was my first bus ride for 40 years but its a rip off and don't the drivers have to take a test the buses I used spent more time jerking then going not a pleasant experience:@
 
i hate you butler .....

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The buses in London are generally packed, and are pretty slow. It would take around 45 minutes to get to work by bus, compared to about 15/20 minutes on bike. If you can get a seat it's bearable because you can read a book or something, but in the rush hour that's easier said than done.
 
many, many years ago I used to drive a bus mainly school buses but sometimes stage carriage services. Horrible job.:@
Nasty unruly kids who won't sit down even when there's a seat. People with coughs and colds sneezing all over you and ridiculous schedules that meant you have to drive everywhere like the clappers to keep to time.
No thanks.
I hate using the bus now because the drivers never take their foot off the accelerator pedal even when changing gear hence the feeling of having your internal organs repositioned every 20 seconds or so.
To be fair the drivers take a huge amount of abuse and are not that well paid.
If I have to go into ChesterI usually cycle, weather and time permitting, rather than use the bus.
 

The buses are really excellent out in Denmark. They're clean, well-driven, on time and frequent. People generally don't misbehave and the teenagers usually sit quietly at the back, fiddling with their mobile phones. Plus, at the moment there's a gorgeous bird driving me home on the number 73 from Frederikshaven.:D
 

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