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Park and Ride bus drivers for jobsworth award

Park and Ride bus drivers are spiteful

I won't use Park and Ride

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 are many Park and Ride facilities around the country and 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.

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15-1-2008Ashley aged 11... not all bus drivers are evil, there are some excellent drivers with good customer service attitudes as well as fantastic driving skills. I speak on behalf of other bus drivers who are all tarred with the same brush, that they're all bad mannered, mean, spiteful and unhelpful. ...moreYouthful Griper
01-1-2008When you're on their buses you don't like it when someone else is in charge and they can tell you what to do rather than the other way round. 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 sh...moreSid
29-12-2007The incident relayed by SLS is very worrying and reflects something fundamentally wrong with a society that can "breed" such vicious, nasty, evil girls. Perhaps the Muslims have got it right when they keep women 'in check' and give them more clearly defined roles. Most of the pub...moreMatt C
19-12-2007oh my word! I invite you all to stagecoach in hull buses. what a joke. bullying, nasty and thick bus drivers. they smoke on the Bus, use mobile phones whilst driving and and injure passagers when they feel like it for fun. the classic being putting the foot on brakes when and elderly or disabled pe...moreashley age 11
18-12-2007Bus drivers are cut from the same cloth as the nasty, evil, idiotic, greedy, spiteful and disgruntled girls (and boys) who behave in the threatening manner you describe. Until we totally revist and rehash our laws, acknowledging that people now are not the people they were 40/60/80 years ago and hen...moreThat's All Folks
14-12-2007I know, Prince, its a passive acceptance. No one wants to disrupt their own day. 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...moreSLS
14-12-2007SLS, similar situation in Sheffield on the tram. There are girls that spit and hurl abuse at others on the tram and everybody sits there pretending to mind their own business, no one intervenes. I can understand this to a certain degree but not when there are policeman on the tram as there's...morePrince
11-12-2007Matt, 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 (peo...moreMartin
11-12-2007I had a knife held to myself and an elderly passenger on a bus. It was a group of school girls with a switch blade who waved it at us and threatened to 'slice [us] open' after the elderly gentleman asked the girls to not swear so loud in front of children. He was polite and nice about it but...moreSLS
11-12-2007Martin, 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 nasti...moreMatt C
07-12-2007I use the Cambridge Park and Ride and all the guys n gals on this route are spot on! 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. Th...moreMartin
07-12-2007Have you complained to the bus company at all? 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...morePaul



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