(18 May 2014, 8:29 am)Roland Pratt wrote There used to be a Loftus driver always told people to sit down til the bus pulled up. Haven't noticed him lately. Don't know if he's left or calmed down now!
I would think drivers would get annoyed by these notices telling people not to get up til the bus stops. If everyone did that the buses would never run to time. Stupid as well when half the time people are having to stand anyway (and some seats are not within reach of a bell).
He did enforce this and every time he was driving the 5/5A it would arrive in Newton Aycliffe 15 minutes late, one time I got on at St. Clare's Church and he'd made an old woman stay sat down and she was quite far back and had one of those trolleys and it was a Prestige and it wouldn't lower and she really struggled to get off the bus.
I think he was driving the "New College" morning Service 7 and he was grabbing the passes out of the students hands and got a good look at each one (surprised he didn't get out a magnifying glass to look at them!) Try explaining that to tutor is the reason your late.
Don't get why they make people sit until the bus stops at the stand but standing is fine. I was a completely full Service 7 one morning and the driver had to brake hard because a lorry had pulled out at The Honest Lawyer and some of the standing passengers fell like skittles.