I’m writing this in the Buckingham Palace Road public library, opposite Greenline where we stop in London – I depart at 17:00 for Bournemouth. When I arrived in London this morning I opened the doors and everyone started to got off, I got out and opened up the hold so that baggage could be collected and then went back onto the bus and shut everything down so I could go for breakfast. Got off the bus and closed the door, went to close the hold doors and saw that one case remained in the hold. Oh well, it’s not unknown for a passenger to forget they left home with a large suitcase and go on their way lightened of its load! Then I thought I should check the bus again, sure enough right at the back I found a girl fast asleep. If she’d not had a case I’d never have known she was there and she’d proably have gone on to Brighton which was my next trip. I sleep pretty well but I think I’d know a bus had stopped, fourty odd people had clattered their way off it and then the door slammed shut!
We don’t have GPS/Sat Nav. 10-20 behind schedule doesn’t create much problem, the bus ‘rests’ in Brighton for a scheduled 80 mintes. The driver is required by law to take a 45 minute break before driving again so a 35 minute late arrival would still mean an ontime departure.
Hey there :) i noticed that your Megabuses get hold up here in brighton (being a bus enthusiast) what does actually happen if you are 10-20 mins behind shedule? and do you have GPS in your cabs?
Of course, you always do a walk along your bus after unloading, yes?! ;)
Take her sleeping as a compliment, it must have been a smooth ride on a very comfortable coach (sure aNothEr company wouldn’t be as good)!