Park and Ride bus drivers are spiteful
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Although parking can be a problem for many drivers in town and cities, there are many Park and Ride facilities around the country. They are very useful except for one thing – from my experience, Park and Ride bus drivers are the most spiteful in the country compared with other bus drivers. On one occasion whilst doing the Christmas shopping in Preston I was with my wife and I had both our tickets. We were getting slightly overloaded and so I thought I would nip to the car with it and come back empty handed to do some more shopping. |
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I got on the bus and tore off one ticket to which the driver asks me for the other ticket. Thinking he was curious of something I did but he wouldn’t return the ticket to me. I asked for it back but he argued that if I was going back to the car and the other person wasn’t with me the other person wouldn’t need it and so he was confiscating it. When I pointed out that I was going back to the car with the shopping, and then back into town to meet my wife and that we would be travelling together back later on, he still refused to return the unused ticket! |
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I put the shopping in the boot and went back to town and explained to my wife what had happened. On the return journey I didn’t have a ticket for my wife and so I told the driver of that bus what had happened the first time. He was reluctant to accept the story and let her travel so we didn’t bother travelling back to the car in their stinking buses and I have never used Preston’s buses since! I park down the side streets which I am entitled to do and won’t park in the car parks. On another occasion when I was in Oxford, I was walking towards a bus stop where an Oxford Bus for Water Eaton Park and Ride was letting passengers on. As I got to the bus the driver closed the doors and whilst I was waiting for the door to be opened the driver read his newspaper and after about five minutes he put his paper down and started up. There were about another five passengers waiting behind me but he drove off without letting any of us waiting at the bus stop get on and he saw me as I made eye-to-eye contact before he drove off so it wasn’t that he didn’t see me. If he didn’t observe me he shouldn’t be driving a public service vehicle. By: Mousey |
Comments from visitors
Doing split shifts
Working late nights till 11.30pm, or later
Working at weekends
Putting up with Joe public
I think anyone would be grumpy
I expect the stock reply “if they don’t like it they should get another job”
Easier said than done
Perfect Passenger - 4-Dec-08 03:08
The maths is tricky when calculating the MPG for a stationary bus and who would the police prosecute for the illegal fog lights when the bus is empty?
Mr P Norfolk - 30-Oct-08 15:51
As for the original poster... Preston Bus offer great park and ride services. I have found most of their drivers most polite, friendly and helpful. Which I'll go into below. As for the Preston Bus P&R service, I believe you pay for the service into Preston and back. The return fare is £1.20 per person. This covers you for the outward journey into Preston and the return journey back. If you need to use it again, pay another £1.20. Hardly extortionate rates in my eyes.
I had gone to Preston to ride on their buses. I had asked for a day rider type ticket but only had a £20 note with me. The driver issued my ticket but said he had no change. I did worry at this point but he then told me he can issue me with another ticket so that I could go to the information booth and they'd give me my change. Not all drivers, anyway, would have gone to this length to ensure my satisfaction. I think for some, it would've been too much hassle.
Another driver, this time female, really did drive fantastically. Gave the bus engine a good thrash but I felt safe throughout the journey and upon my return to Preston, I told her she'd handled the bus well and that I really liked her driving. She was a bit bemused that a passenger would say such a comment.
Youthful Griper - 15-Jan-08 16:36
Most customers who I see like to think they are in charge and inevitably like to dish out sarcasm and other forms of objectionable behaviour at shop or office staff. I think it's fantastic that when you people get to the bus you have to drop the drama queen act and get back to the real world. Because if you don't the driver can refuse to let you board or throw you off anyway!
I love nothing more than to see bus drivers puncturing the bubble of self-importance that most of you stupid passengers display! It's not the drivers who are spiteful it's you the passenger talking down to people again - you dick!
ashley age 11 - 19-Dec-07 04:11
That's All Folks - 18-Dec-07 13:48
Bus drivers have a responsibility to keep their passengers safe (by not crashing, etc) and that should extend to physical safely while onboard. I would never expect them to jump between me and a knife, but they have communication devices for a reason and should be contacting authorities. Its sad. I haven't taken the bus since. I thought I was being green and helping the planet by leaving the car at home, but I now want to focus on keeping myself safe.
I can understand this to a certain degree but not when there are policeman on the tram as there's usually at least two on their way to work - and you know they are policeman under their jacket. They do nothing.
You seem like a mamby-pamby softy and it's because of you, yes you, all the oxygen thieves, that this is the way the country is.... Finished.
Grow a spine will yer for God's sake. Buck up and meet fire with fire.
To answer your question, until you come up with a solution (people want solutions not problems) the answer is yes, 'You have to crack on with it' so, give us the answer Matt, please, were'll waiting on you! Cmon Matt!!
You sound like an incredibly irritating chap! 'You have to crack on with it' you say. So, what does that mean? That passengers have to put up with a bunch of psychotic weirdos who earn a living by driving buses, being rude to passengers and generally exuding a 'creepy nastiness' that should be like a flashing beacon to all psychiatric nurses and doctors in the area.
Get real and take less of the happy pills!
Just last week I get on the bus to find I'd left my wallet on the car seat. The driver said 'no probs mate, I'll wait here while you go and fetch it' which I thought was damn decent of him.
This is a bit of a silly gripe as there are grumpy people in all forms of work. You have to crack on with it
The bus services I have used thus far have seemed to be okay. I do not think I’ve come across a rude bus driver yet, but do not use them too often.
I usually greet them as I consider their job to be an important role, and certainly not easy. Perhaps try again with the bus service and complain if you’re not happy.
Busmans' holiday - 4-Dec-07 18:37
I complained to the bus company and when nothing was done wrote to the city coucil, newspaper, and local tv station (these emails included a compliation of bad experiences). I emailed everyone I could think of. I got not a single response. If any other business treated its customers like that, it would go bust. But because people will always need transportation, it goes unnoticed.





