On Friday, 6 April 2018 13:17:03 UTC+1, michael adams wrote:
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On Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:59:31 UTC+1, michael adams wrote:
Khans father was a bus driver. And he's full of pie in the sky nonsense.
Have you personally travelled on a London Bus recently ? Basically they're
now targetted at idiots who instantly forget what bus they got on,
immediately they board and have to be reminded at every stop with
loudspeaker announcements at full volume.

Those are for blind people and tourists.

Why would blind people or tourists for that matter, forget what bus they'd
just got on ?

in the case of the blind person

how did they know which bus they were getting on until the on-bus announcement tells
them?


They ask the driver. Or another person in the queue if there
is one before boarding the bus.

but how do they know that they aren't being lied to (deliberately or otherwise)

They'd know once they'd got on the bus. They'd confirm the route
when they told the driver their stop.

Most of the buses I use have the entrace and exit on the side or back so you don't need to pass the driver.

The only reason for asking somebody on the queuse is to save the
blind person the trouble of boarding the wrong bus only to
be told by the driver that they've got on the wrong one.

I think that is a pretty important reason to ask, especailly if the person happens to be in a wheelchair. Some ask if they don't know whether or not the bus is going to their destination.
Sometimes and quite often the bus changes it's final destination.
About 1 in every 3 journeys I make the bus stops and the annoucnment says the driver will wait here for 5 mins to better regulate the service.


Your idea that they'd board a succession of buses of different
routes all serving the same stop, and then wait to listen to the
on board announcement before decideing whether they needed to get
off or not is, quite frankly, one of the most ludicrous suggestions
its ever been my pleasuse to read on UseNet.

But it would make a good comedy sketch.
be even funny if this system was used on planes.


And that's even leaving out the likelihood of people deliberately
lying to blind people.

Not seen that happen but people can get things wrong.

A couple of years ago the Walthamstow Leisure centre was called the Kelmscott Leisure Centre.

Wonder if they'll change the name again.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...-a3804416.html



I often have people ask me questions about next bus/train and 30 seconds later I see
them asking someone else

That will presumably depend on how much confidence they have in what
you told them;

In fact I was asked is the Kelmscott Leisure Centre near here as I got off the bus 2 stops before. I said yes it's about 2 stops away but it's called something else now, I didn;t know what at the time.



which sad to say will mainly be based on your
appearance, accent, confident manner or not, abscence of facial tics
etc. Basically even nowadyas if you were dressed in a pin strip suit,
with a crisp white shirt, matching tie and handerkerchief, and spoke
with a public school accent then people would be far more inclined to
believe you first time than if you had long hair, a beard,
were wearing jeans and spoke with say a cockney accent .And this
goes for all classes of enquirers.

Not always, if I'm looking for a gig/venue I'd ask people that look like they might know.