Love Buses, Hate the Passengers (Buses in general)

Member Name: Lea09

Product:	Buses in general
Date:	14/07/09 (15 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: The service I usually recieve

Disadvantages: The behaviour allowed of some of those who get on

The bus is my friend, the passengers are my foe!

I've used buses incredibly regularly throughout the last two years as I've had to use them twice a day to get to and from Sixth form, and the fact that it's an hour each way means that I spend plenty of time travelling on them.

My personal experience of buses has been great and although the journey are much longer than going in a car I've never minded it. The drivers tend to always be polite and extremely helpful and the bus ride problem free. And probably contrary to a lot of people's experience I've never really had to put up with constant late buses.

By experience of the other people that get on the bus, however, massively differs. When I get the 2:30 bus back I end up having to experience half my bus ride with really rowdy high school kids who are not properly controlled and their behaviour is far beyond the line of just impolite. This has been pretty much continous for the two years and both the schools and the bus company have yet to do anything about it. It really makes my journey atrocious and I have to purposely take a bus an hour later just to have some peace. Not what I want from a respectable bus company.



I have had one annoying problem with a bus journey though and I really wish I'd reported it now. On one journey when travelling on a company and bus route I usually did, about half way through, my driver lit a cigarette and smoked it while driving. This is dangerous has he can be easily distracted by it and lose focus. And it was incredibly disgusting as the smell filled the entire bus. It certainly wasn't the professional service I'd come to expect.

Summary: If we could just get proper school buses...