{"id":1622,"date":"2011-11-07T20:56:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2011-11-07T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:01:07","slug":"bus-passengers-should-come-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1622","title":{"rendered":"Bus passengers should come first"},"content":{"rendered":"

So says a letter to the Evening Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It goes on to say:-<\/p>\n

On boarding a bus recently, I was left aghast when the driver informed me the only reason he had stopped was to allow passengers who had boarded in Perth to get off.
\nHe explained that as he was running late he had been instructed by his supervisor not to stop to pick up any passengers so he could make up time.<\/p>\n

I later spoke to one of the passengers who had alighted the Stagecoach bus and he informed me that the driver had driven down the Perth to Dundee dual carriageway and had not followed the scheduled route that would have taken him through the various Carse of Gowrie villages.<\/p>\n

I could only imagine the anger and frustration of anyone who had been left stranded by this.<\/p>\n

If this is so that they can \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctick the box\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on punctuality then I find it disgusting and the bus firm should be ashamed that it could treat customers in such a manner. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A. Payne, Invergowrie.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here we have someone ‘on the bus’ complaining vociferously, and quite wrongly, on behalf an imagined group people (those who they think the bus left behind by taking a direct route) who in actuality have no problem at all! Without a doubt the driver’s controller did say “just drop off” and probably added “don’t bother with the villages”. Once a bus is so late that the following on time bus is only a minute or two behind the late bus there is little point in the late bus and the on time bus joining and becoming one! Better do something to get the late bus back on time.<\/p>\n

By coincidence I had a very similar situation today where a group of disembarking passengers were extremely rude to me and were all complaining on behalf of imagined fellow passengers who would be inconvenienced. I wont go into the rather complicated situation but those who were complaining were where they wanted to be, when they wanted to be. And those not present, but on who’s behalf they wanted to rant and rave at the bus company, were being picked up by a bus at the time and place they expected to be picked up!<\/p>\n

A final point about being late is how unhelpful it is when each boarding passenger says “You’re late what’s the problem”? Don’t they realise that having to explain that there are roadworks at ‘x’ etc to every boarding passenger is just adding to the delay. Board 20 people and answer that question 20 times, even if it only takes 10 seconds a time to do so, and you’ve lost more than another 3 minutes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So says a letter to the Evening Telegraph. It goes on to say:- On boarding a bus recently, I was left aghast when the driver informed me the only reason he had stopped was to allow passengers who had boarded in Perth to get off. He explained that as he was running late he had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}