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  • #72346

    steveg
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    As a bus user, I’d say the driver is right. People use bus stops as a convenient shelters and as pick-up points for lifts. I’ve seen buses pull into stops where people were standing, only for no-one to actually get on. Multiply that by 10 stops per route and then there’ll be complaints about lateness.

    #72337

    dagg
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    I thought only buses are allowed to pick up at bus stops, someone told me years ago (a really long time ago) it was illegal for other vehicles to pick up people at bus stops.

    #72351

    BorrasBill
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    You are correct, it is illegal for other vehicles to stop at a bus stop. As I understand it the police can prosecute, whereas they can not for ordinary parking violations.

    #72372

    Maureen Gray
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    @Mrs Crewe 18815 wrote:

    It was Pat’s Coaches about 8 years ago now.

    My god Mrs Crewe, 8 years, most of these bus companies can’t remember what their driver did 8 minutes ago, never mind………………..zzzzzz

    #72383

    asteve76
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    Whether you pay a fare or have a pass (especially if you have a pass), you should just shut up!
    Fine, complain if you think the driver is driving dangerously or doesn’t stop to pick you up. NOT if the bus is cold or smelly or has litter everywhere.
    Remember this, you are effectively travelling on the roads for free, while others including car and lorry drivers etc pay for fuel, road tax and insurance.

    #72365

    The Monitor
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    @asteve76 19062 wrote:

    Whether you pay a fare or have a pass (especially if you have a pass), you should just shut up!
    Fine, complain if you think the driver is driving dangerously or doesn’t stop to pick you up. NOT if the bus is cold or smelly or has litter everywhere.
    Remember this, you are effectively travelling on the roads for free, while others including car and lorry drivers etc pay for fuel, road tax and insurance.

    You… asteve76 are an arrogant and unappreciative fool. If the ’76’ does not refer to your age … then screw you. Have you ever considered that every citizen who is of an age to have a bus pass, has already paid into the system sufficient to warrant free transport, and not only that. They have paid into the system sufficient to pay for your NHS treatments, schooling and possibly life saving treatments. YOU are what used to be called a total plonker. Now get your silly head out of your arse and start using intelligence and HUMANITY.

    #72384

    asteve76
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    Surely, for all your working life, you pay your dues because you have to and that money goes to pay for, as you say, NHS and education and a hundred other things, NOT because you expect some sort or reward when you retire. Apart from your state pension.
    Things like bus passes, a free TV licence (over 75) and winter fuel payments etc, are gifts,things the government doesn’t have to give you.

    #72345

    MP1953
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    There is no doubt youngsters do have it hard getting started today, but it was pretty much the same back in the day :D its just they want everything straight away these days. :rolleyes:

    There is an article in the Times today that is saying that pensioners are getting benefits on the back of youngsters suffering, but as The Monitor says older people have earned and paid for all these benefits over the course of their lives, (or most of them) and if you notice no government is proposing to get rid of the bus pass ;);)

    #72336

    zinger
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    @asteve76 19071 wrote:

    Surely, for all your working life, you pay your dues because you have to and that money goes to pay for, as you say, NHS and education and a hundred other things, NOT because you expect some sort or reward when you retire. Apart from your state pension.
    Things like bus passes, a free TV licence (over 75) and winter fuel payments etc, are gifts,things the government doesn’t have to give you.

    Have you tried to live on a state pension I wonder? Why don’t you try it for a few months? The people least likely to ask for state handouts are pensioners.

    #72330

    Andy
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    If you pay road tax then you’ve been scammed. Road tax was abolished in 1937. Use of the roads is free to everyone.

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