'another day on the buses'

I don’t seem to be endearing myself to the Park and Ride clientele. Yesterday a lady got on in the town and told me she’d mislaid her car park ticket which gives a free bus ride to the car park. “I’m sorry” I said, punching the car park fare stage into the ticket machine, “that’ll [...]

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Following the reduced MegaBus services (Monday to Saturday) which I wrote about on 16 March, we now have to do some Park and Ride work in Winchester. Yesterday I had to do four loops of the car parks to town, to the rail station and back to the car parks. I don’t think I did [...]

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I’m not sure how much detail to give on this (don’t want to give others ideas) but yesterday two young ‘ladies’ managed to travel from Brighton to London on ONE ticket. MegaBus don’t have a ‘buy one get one free’ policy so the second traveller effectively stole the journey! I rumbled the scam just after [...]

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On BBC1′s Breakfast this morning there was a piece about www.ozbus.co.uk who have started a London to Sydney bus service. Simon Calder, The Independent’s travel correspondent, was being interviewed about it and was asked how people could be sure they’d cope with 85 days on a bus. His suggestion was that they try the Scotland [...]

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I’ve just come across this story ‘Scent of a woman gets up bus drivers’ noses’ which tells of two different bus drivers in Canada who refused to carry a woman because they didn’t like her perfume! Can’t say I’ve had a problem with perfume smells on my bus, it’s more often neglected body hygiene or [...]

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