On 2006-11-11, Richard Brookman <
[email protected]> wrote:
> planning on a pint or six. Now I have one bus a week into town, and another
> coming back 2 hours later. That's it. And they wonder why people don't use
> them.
Ditto out here, I get more busses than that, but they're not practical
due to the length of time they take. When I'm an ancient old codger
then perhaps.
> I'm not surprised - in your car, you're in control of your journey, and you
> can choose who you sit next to.
You also get better treatment, last time I took a proper train ride
was in the middle of a very hot summer, the carriage had tiny windows
to prevent people from opening them, because the carriage had air
conditioning, which of course didn't work. So we sweated, some people
could hardly stand, and the staff at the station were taking a lot of
flack. A few days later there was a story in the papers and TV about
a carriage that was similarly afflicted, but with the train stopped
for half an hour with no shade. The passengers got off because it was
too hot inside, guards came along and told them to get back on as the
train was pulling away, so they got on, the guards then locked them in
and the train sat there for an hour and a half --- the guards only
told them to get on so they could lock them in. ISTR the passengers
smashed the windows for ventilation.
Then there's people being stuck on the London underground for hours,
packed in like cattle, busses that break down in the middle of nowhere
(like my old bus from Reading to Thatcham) and the replacement taking
several hours to reach us and so on, basically any public transport
seems to treat passengers as an inconvenient obstacle to the operation
of procedure. It's hard not to feel like a piece of dirt on much of
public transport, with some exceptions.
--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
