(10 May 2020, 11:45 am)scanialover wrote A question please? Whilst our drivers and staff are doing such a brilliant job in these unprecedented times what gives them, an Arriva driver based at Darlington in particular, the right and responsibility to question, aggressively, people's reasons for travel? Yes we are working under the banner of essential travel only and would I wish to travel otherwise but to make what was a mercy dash to deliver medication to an elderly relative. Hell we'd spend the day previously sourcing this and to cap that we find some lowlife choses to vandalise our car. Did he honestly think I wanted to put myself and others at risk? If he'd been civil he'd have found out why and got my respect.

If I was driving buses, and therefore having to interact with people within the 2m distance, seeing the ever increasing number of passengers (let's remember that the guidance *still* hasn't been updated as of right now) then I'd probably be getting frustrated too. 

Anecdotally of course, every day I've been hearing from drivers that services are getting busier. Obviously shifts change, but there hasn't been a direction from the government that would result in an increase in passenger numbers compared to week 1 of lockdown. Your driver is probably, quite rightly, getting frustrated with people putting him and his family at risk unnecessarily.