(17 Aug 2014, 11:20 am)aureolin wrote Are they tied down and force fed alcohol like? It's their choice to get rat arsed and in a state that they're likely to vomit on public transport. Why should one person like that be allowed to disrupt the entire bus?
Interestingly, GNE's conditions of carriage state they reserve the right to to refuse entry/travel to drunks, druggies, and those who are just of a poor personal hygiene. A good move in my opinion...
The disruption is that other passengers travelling on that service aren't getting to their intended destination on time or reaching their connections. May not be too much of an issue for a shopping trip or whatever, but it would certainly impact commuters. You say *if* a spare bus can be put out. Can it always be put out? and what is the turnaround on that? I'd estimate you'd lose 20-30 minutes to get a spare bus put out and in service, but that's on the occasion a spare can be put out. What about during peak times when the fleets are fully utilised to run scholars and works services? Or on an evening when you have a skeleton staff, which also impacts the time taken to get a replacement out?
Sometimes sending a spare bus can't always be done for example the time someone was sick on the 7 to New College one morning which happened just outside Croxdale so it was too far for Darlington or Durham depot to send out another bus so we would have to get the next 7 which is almost 20 minutes behind and terminates at Durham Bus Station and we'd all have to get another bus to get to Framwellgate Moor and of course you end joining a queue of other people who are late for college and of course when the 64 turns up its a single decker so you have a seating bus load from the 7 and other passengers trying to get on with not enough space for everyone so we get left behind and have to wait ages for another one and before you know it it is 0930 and you are 30 minutes late for college and you have to miss out your first lesson.