Before you leave home, make sure you have fare, pass, or tickets.
Leave home early enough to give yourself time to get to your bus stop.
While at bus stop waiting, please get fare, passes, tickets ready before the bus shows up. The bus driver as well as the other passengers will appreciate this.
When you see your bus approaching, please make a move toward the bus stop if you are not there already, you’d be surprized at how many people think we can read minds. Also this is important if there are many buses stopping at this stop.
College and university students, the photo on your pass is there for a reason. Stop covering it up with your thumbs and or fingers, we need to see it. They are not for sharing. Good way to lose it, as in confiscated.
Please allow people to disembark before you shove your way onto the bus. Seniors are not that quick or as steady as you may be.
Please keep your music down to a mild roar because not everyone enjoys listening to whatever kind of music you like. There will be a lot of young people wearing hearing aids in a few decades.
If you are able please exit by the back doors to free up the front doors, making entering and exiting flow smoothly.
These should all be no brainners, but it seems we are in short supply of brains in this day and age.
Be courteous to others and respect your fellow riders. Don’t use up a seat for your bags and parcels if the bus is crowded and people are standing.
If this is too difficult may I suggest a nice walk. Two feet and a heartbeat will take you practically anywhere. —Ding
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Now you don’t actually believe any of that common sense stuff will work, do ya?
Ding…The bell just rang so I think I’ll get off here.
You forgot to address monstrosity strollers that block aisles making it nearly impossible for anyone else to navigate and downright dangerous for senior or disabled passengers.
Very nice post mr. bus driver…now if you will kindly take my money, shut the door and drive the damn bus like you are being paid (a very high wage) to do, that would be appreciated ever so much!
Dear Mr. Bus Driver, maybe you should look before you pull out from a bus stop. I know there is a ‘yeild to bus law’ and I follow it. This law doesnt give you the right to just pull out when ever you are ready. Sometimes there is already a car going by you before you put your signal on to pull out, but you keep on coming anyway. It is a two way street.
Two feet and a heartbeat. LOL. A bus driver can barely walk the length of a bus. I have seen these bus drivers and they are the unhealthiest lot of employees I have ever seen. Overweight, poor diet and hygiene, depression etc. One day the city should post the stats for the sick leave that is taken by these folks. Am sure it will be enlightening.
Manuel, have you never heard of a blind spot? Buses have more than you can shake a stick at. And as for you Koda, not every bus driver is overweight, unkept, and depressed. Come join the crew and see how long it takes you to become a fat, stinky, depressed blob who thinks an empty bus is a happy one.
Yours truly.
Wheels, no thanks. The hemorrhoids would be too much to bear.
Was this written by Reg Varney?
Sweet whistlin people…I agree with everything OP said. Why some of you water the points down because he/she is a driver is beyond me. The last time I checked, the driver has a stake in how the system operates as well as the riders. The riders have responsibilities/obligations as well as rights. If everyone does the basic crap required to make the system work…the better off everyone will be. If some of you are incapable of acknowledging that…I can only guess you don’t depend on transit to get around.
Hey Macleod, no you are correct in assuming that I don’t depend on transit to get around. Thank jesus!
hey macleod! because people are becoming self absorbed babies, around whom the entire world should revolve.
fly off the handle because someone else is chewing loudly. obsess about the colour of strangers’ pants and feel it is something that everyone should side with you. demand a store give you a discount on an expired coupon and scream for a protest march when they don’t.
people fret and sweat and bleat about these trivial, meaningless situations but consider themselves committed social activists and humanitarians because they click ‘like and share’ on an internet campaign to stop the killing of _________ (insert victim here)
the concept of manners in public situations is slipping beneath the foam of a billion lattes clutched in fingerless mittened hands.
“the concept of manners in public situations is slipping beneath the foam of a billion lattes clutched in fingerless mittened hands”
So much win in one sentence! My day is made.
i consider those coffee clutchers a symptom and a symbol.
they are everywhere, in clothing stores, on buses, at parades, along the boardwalk. they are perpetual browsers in stores, putting their spit dribbled cups on precarious shelves while they pick up items then discard, unfolded, in a heap. they leave their cups by the thousands along the street on ledges, curbs and in the crooks of trees. waiting for ‘someone’ to clean them up. they never toss the cups like rambunctious hillbillies, they tenderly place them, tuck them into crannies. they take their cups, filled with hot sticky coffee, as they jostle down the street on the bus. and then carefully put the cup on the floor when they leave.
and if that coffee spills on someone, something…. it’s ‘an accident!’
that sums up my gripe. the constant bleating of ‘i didn’t mean to do it, so it’s not my fault’.
if someone speeds and hit someone, they didn’t mean to do it, so it’s not their fault, you mustn’t hold them responsible, because they didn’t leave the house with the intention of killing someone. makes it all ok, right?
if you spill coffee on something because you took your cup onto a moving vehicle, into a store, a crowd, a museum it’s not your fault because you didn’t intend to spill it. ‘it just happened – its an accident’. someone jostled your arm, you backed into a display, you got the hiccups. that makes it all ok.
at what point did we cave in and allow these damn cups into stores and on buses? what came first, the cup or the moral cowardice?
at what point did we stop believing ‘aw shit, i shouldn’t have done that’ ?
LOLOL! Yes, that’s it! Lay the blame on the customer, not your laziness, lack of customer service or your participation in a system that hinders public transportation rather than increases it. Yes, blame us….