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Home time buses are dangerous
Peterborough’s bus service has of late come in for some stick. I will add a little more.
I am 75, work part-time over at Werrington and travel home from the shopping centre on or about 4pm. School leaving time.
On Monday it was almost impossible to alight from the bus, with noisy schoolchildren and some adults blocking the exits and sitting on the stairs,
The drivers don’t appear to advise passengers about the dangers.
On Tuesday I go to the bus station, I don’t know to whom I spoke as he did not introduce himself, but he did give me some very useful advice: “Try to avoid using the bus at that time!”
What should I do then, walk?
I felt like recommending him for MENSA.
The issue of noisy schoolchildren has been raised before but little if anything is ever done. It will take an accident to get something done.
Mrs Margaret Briggs
Chaucer Road
New England.
Peterborough
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rebel woman
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 09:18 AMI agree that they tend to stand at the front, but you cannot stop them talking. I hate being on the afternoon bus with the children but with them having to travel further to school these days they have to use the bus. At least they pay, unlike Margaret so are more entitled to their place on the bus
mp
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 05:20 AMAnother good reason for school busing programs.
Sofedup
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 06:26 PM@1 In the old days (and no I am not that old) we had bus conductors! They could at least move kids from the stairs, etc but the buses used to be a public service, but then it was sold off to the private sector, and now profit is first!
wamdue
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 02:53 PMthis maybe nothing, but I was on a bus, that picked up from Glinton School recently, and it seemed odd that the students who got on, did not sit down. It seemed like they only sat on empty seats, not sharing with members of the public. This obviously causes crowding a the front of the bus, as there was not alot of double sets vacant. Is this a policy of Glinton School?
Lazy Daisy
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 12:28 PMSome of the drivers do try but they often get verbal abuse for their trouble. Also, once the bus is moving, the driver has to concentrate on the road.
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