anthony263
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I still drop my elderly customers off close to their houses but it's at my own risk
Hail and ride services are a pain, you get people standing ten feet apart and expecting the bus to stop twice to pick them up.
What would happen if you were to pull up with the door half way between the two of them?
Normally I would stop at the second person so the first would have to walk to get on. I have seen people standing a few feet away while people get on and assumed they were not wanting my bus, but no, as soon as you pull away they stick their hand out.
Sorry, but how impatient *are* you? Things, and times, change. Sorry.
Feel like there might be some degree of survivor bias thereI'm sure, he, like myself survived without accident for decades jumping off routemasters. I don't see any reason to stop doing that.
I'm sure, he, like myself survived without accident for decades jumping off routemasters. I don't see any reason to stop doing that.
Feel like there might be some degree of survivor bias there
The problem is the number of people that didn't, acquired a minor injury as a result and could then claim compensation because of the rise of no-win, no fee lawyers. The cat is out of the bag and it's next to impossible to put it back.I'm sure, he, like myself survived without accident for decades jumping off routemasters. I don't see any reason to stop doing that.
As indeed did I, and well before Routemasters were introduced too, but jumping on or off an open platform rear entrance bus is very different from a bus that doesn't have those features, as I discovered the first time I tried it with an RF, front entrance with open platform and nearly came a cropper. Being nineteen at the time I survived with pride the only wound but I was exceedingly wary after that. Hearing about all the deaths and serious injuries caused on the Southern, particularly at London Bridge, with slam door stock and people impatient to get home reinforces my view now that it's foolhardy to mess around with bus doors - one slip and you could go under that bus.I'm sure, he, like myself survived without accident for decades jumping off routemasters. I don't see any reason to stop doing that.
In urban areas I was taught stops only, rural areas anywhere safe within reason.
The door/brake interlock on modern buses means we can’t open the doors quickly sat in traffic anymore to let someone jump off quick.
What is the general situation on routes where there are few bus stops on the roads and lanes between the villages.
I once had a regular driver stop for me when I was just out for a walk. It was really embarrassing to say "no thank you"!I got let on half way between stops when I was running towards the stop (if you just miss it at one stop you can run to the next and make it due to the queue at that next stop), and once I was let on between the stops as the bus went past me. I was then told to not bother scanning my monthly ticket (I hadn't even got it out, I can't think the bus driver recognised me). This is town centre, first two stops on route.
H&S gone mad me thinks.
A standard tabloid response. Most changes like this have happened because the cost of insurance is high (or it's impossible to get) and this has happened because of the rise of no-win, no-fee lawyers since solicitors were deregulated by the same government that deregulated the buses.H&S gone mad me thinks.
This is quite an important issue in rural areas for passengers wanting to get ON when there isn't a bus stop in sight.
Services are usually infrequent and marked stops are often large distances apart. I have been on walks ending on a bus route without a stop in sight. It wasn't even obvious on some occasions which way I should walk to find one. What do you do in such circumstances? Stand still on hurtle off in one direction or the other and hope the bus doesn't zoom past you while you walking.
Yes, definitely varies. I have had busses drive straight past flagged stops listed in the timetable just because their route number sticker had fallen off the flag or not been reapplied after the flag was replaced, leaving me calling a taxi because I could not walk safely along an unlit rural highway with no side pavement to the next stop in the next village. Bus company then denied it happened and the local newspaper I think did not want to upset a big advertiser. This was in days before facebook and big forums.I was trained if it’s out of town such a between Villages if it’s safe to stop consider it, especially for a vulnerable passenger (I.e. disabled, child, elderly). I don’t want to be leaving a child to walk a mile down a country lane, if I’m passing their cottage. Within the town or city, marked stops only. This of course applies to my training at my opco and may vary.