Busses

Smelly, slow and uninformative. Thanks to Walthamstow central being
closed, the "helpful" person at the gate (who barely spoke any
English), told me to get a bus to Leyton (Should have walked to
balckhorse road). Got on, you get the dreggs of the earth on them,
theres no information, no route maps on the bus telling you where you
are, they are constantly caught up in traffic (mainly other busses
pulling into and out of stops), and I got into work half an hour late.
I'm unimpressed.

Solution

1) Ban smelly people with things living in their hair
2) Each bus should have a route map like on the tube, so you can see
where you've been, where you are, and where you're going, complete
with interchanges onto the much superior underground and national rail
3) There should be announcments for each stop (whether the bus stops
there or not)

"Neil Williams" <wensleydale@pacersplace.org.uk> wrote in message
news:3f958f17.2968007@news.freeserve.net...
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:35:54 GMT, "Richard J."
> <rjnews@blueukder.co.yon> wrote:
>
> >The RV1 route in central London has (2) and (3).
>
> (3) could easily be provided on all buses, as it is in Europe, by
> fitting hands-free PA and making it legal for drivers to use it (as I
> believe in some cases it is not).
>
> Announcement of stops is a cheap, easy thing to do, and provides a
> massive service improvement to those who don't know where they are.
>
On the streetcars here in Toronto, the driver announces each stop well
before it's reached but the road system is so simple it's nearly impossible
to get lost.
I'm not so sure it would particularly easy on London bus routes; there are
many stops that wouldn't be easy to name. Stops at well known places;
stations, large shops, pubs and cinemas for sure, but what about all the
stops in not very memorable places?

>Kat< in Downtown Toronto