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Does anyone else fear for their life on buses?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active 8 months ago
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Does anyone else fear for their life on the buses these days? I take the 73 home every night and spend most of the journey praying that the crazy driver won’t a) drive into another car b) knock someone over c) take off after going over a speed bump at about 50 mph. One dude was driving so fast round a corner a...
Would these tiny windows work if the buses drove sideways?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active 8 months ago
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So the clever people at London Transport thought that all the new buses should only have a couple of tiny windows on the top deck? That that would give us air? Maybe if buses drove sideways like crabs. But no, buses drive forward. So the air doesn’t come in the little side windows. Here’s an idea, Ken...
Hells Angels or ticket inspectors?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Warning to those who have been happily taking advantage of the no need to show your ticket nature of the 73 bendy buses and smugly enjoying gratis travel between Stokey & Victoria: there’s a new breed of ticket inspector aboard. Seen in action this morning, this elite, crack team of ‘Revenue Protection Ins...
Can I please complain about this aggressive bus driver?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active 8 months ago
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I had an incident with a bus driver this morning (all connected with him refusing to accept a tenner, then refusing to let me on the bus until a nice man behind paid my fare – thanks again if you’re reading), which led to a slightly odd discovery. For the first time in my life I rang up TfL to complai...
Do bendy buses equal free travel?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
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On the subject of the new Bendy Buses, I have to say I like them. Why? ‘Tis simple. Bendy Buses = Free Travel. [Cue multiple angry posts/emails about fare dodging.] Niddle
Is TFL text asking for trouble?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Transport for London run a text service that is supposed to tell you bus times. You text the service, you get your times (or that’s the idea). Simple. Here are a few of the text messages that TFL’s text service received recently, simultaneously revealing the extent of despair at London’s bus servic...
Why don't bus drivers wait?
Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Don’t you just hate it when bus drivers don’t wait when you’re trying to buy a ticket from those machines? I blame that Ken Livingstone. Miss Moneypenny
What are your bendy bus experiences?
Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Has anyone had amusing experiences on the Bendy 73s? I was on my way to Angel from Stoke Newington on Saturday and the driver actually got off the bus somewhere a little way down Albion Road, screaming, “I’m having a nightmare! I don’t want to hit it! My heart is beating so fast!”. Poor gu...
Why won't people sit upstairs on buses?
Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
Last active 8 months ago
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Every day I use the bus route that goes up Clapham High Street to Stockwell tube. Most days I find that people along the route get on and stand in the lower deck area until it is crammed full. I always try to go upstairs, which is usually half empty. A couple of times I have called down the stairwell to tell people ...
Want some tips from an actual bus driver?
Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
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Last active 7 months ago
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Some tips from a bus driver… Ticket machines: If they don’t work the driver should take you to the next one and should to wait for you – his machine will not let him issue one so don’t get shirty with him, if he did give you a ticket he can get in trouble. Bus stops: Please don...
Anyone else seen buses under attack?
Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
Last active 8 months ago
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I just saw an emptied bus outside Finsbury Park station, with a loud siren going off, alternating with an equally loud recorded message: “This bus is under attack. Please dial 999! Waaaah! Waaaaah!” The message was being read out in a silly, squeaky voice. The driver was standing by his bus, looking unc...
Does anyone else have odd london bus experiences?
Posted by faith about 1 year ago
Last active 8 months ago
13 responses
Everytime I wait for a bus late at night, I seem to meet a freak. Last night, for instance- I met a lady who looked like a frog and kept offering me chopped lemon and lime she’d “saved” from being wasted by a pub that was throwing them out. After suggesting (in jest) that she ate the fruit with ...
What's with stupid tottery old people (and is Pond a weirdo)?
Posted by theassassinprince about 1 year ago
Last active 8 months ago
26 responses
So I was waiting to get the bus in East Dulwich this morning when a man comes up and stands next to me. ‘Hmm’, thinks I, ‘if he wasn’t wearing glasses he’d look a bit like Pond off of Fridaycities’. So we get on the bus and I’m standing up downstairs (due to a bad back not b...
Has anyone fallen over on the tube like me today?
Posted by unknown about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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I got on the train with my two bags and fell completely flat on face, bags all over the carriage, because of my heels. I quickly had to get up and go to the next carriage where no one had seen me. I can still hear the loud splat as I landed. Unfortunately I left my book in the first carriage but was too embarrass...
Buses! With fans!
Posted by pato about 1 year ago
Last active 8 months ago
6 responses
I was on a bus the other day and it had a ginormous fan in the ceiling blowing sexy sexy cool air into the bus! How awesome is that?! This was on one of those new red & gray double decker buses. Anyone seen these?
The new automated announcements on buses. A bit annoying?
Posted by AngryMike about 1 year ago
Last active 8 months ago
52 responses
Is anyone else annoyed by the new automated stop announcements on buses? I don’t need to know I’m on route 243 and the name of every individual stop all the way from Kingsland Road to Holborn. I can appreciate this may be of use to tourists but outside Zone One surely most passengers are locals who know where they a...
London's worst bus route?
Posted by Allie 12 months ago
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Last active 8 months ago
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Apologies if we’ve had a similar conversation here before…I did a search but could only find one about people’s favourite bus routes. So, what do we think is the worst bus route in the whole of London? I think I’d have to go with the 266. It goes from Hammersmith to Brent Cross and is just...
Bus Stop Potato Art. Spiky spuds on east London buses
Posted by Slim about 1 year ago
Last active 8 months ago
13 responses
You may have noticed, if you sit on the top deck of the buses that run through Old St and Shoreditch, a bizarre tuber based art phenomenon. Someone has been taking the time to paint potatoes, skewer them with brightly coloured toothpicks, earbuds and seemingly anything that comes to hand, and then deposit them on th...
Who would be your gods of London?
Asked by ellie 6 months ago for 1 kudos
Best answer by SuckMonster
Last active 5 months ago
11 responses
The posting that Babb made on here re.favourite books reminded me of one of my favourites American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. For those who haven’t read it, it’s about gods and myths, the gods of old vs the new gods of the USA. Some of these gods include things such as gods of credit cards, TV, and the intern...
premiumHave you ever been on a round London sightseeing tour?
Asked by BraveNewMalden 4 months ago for 1 kudos
Best answer by MonkeyBoy
Last active 3 months ago
13 responses
What are they like? Do the tour guides have any idea what they’re talking about? How much does a trip cost? Which is the best operator? Finally, could we all commandeer a tour bus one day and demand to be taken to the Louvre?
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