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[email protected] · February 23rd 04, 12:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Robin May) wrote:

wrote the following in:

I will normally wait if I know there is a train approaching at an
interchange station, and will always wait if I see passengers
crossing over. However, when there is a two minute service and I
see on the destination board that the train behind me is only a
minute away, I will not usually wait if the approaching train
hasn't actually berthed in the platform as, by the time the
passengers start to get off and walk across, I could have left and
the train behind me started to come into the platform. If i wait,
I will be holding that train (and) others) in the tunnel behind
me.

It's nice to know that there are people with such a well thought out
and considerate attitude to their work.

It isn't just me, I think you'll find that most drivers will do the same.
However, as with anything, you will always have the few people whose sole
purpose in life seems to be to deliberately annoy people. There is one bus
driver who deliberately stops in the wrong place at bus stops, another who
seems to take delight in stopping with the only set of doors directly
opposite the bus stop post to make it difficult to get on and off the bus.
But, again, it is only the odd one or two who do these things.

Roger