On Sat, 1 May 2004 12:36:09 +0100, Annabel Smyth
wrote:

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 at 21:24:31, Peter Smyth
wrote:

The conductor is correct. The request/compulsory stop distinction only
applies to people getting on, if you want to get off you have to ring the
bell at any stop.

Peter Smyth


Since when? I've never heard *that* one......

It seems to have sneaked in sometime in the last ten years or so!

I don't think the TfL website is entirely clear. It states, in
describing the types of bus stop 'Compulsory Buses will
automatically stop, unless they are full, except Night Buses -' but
this is subtly under a 'boarding' heading.

Also 'When you want to get off the bus ring the bell once, and well in
advance to let the driver know..' It would help if it said this
applied to all types of stop. (In fact it doesn't even explain that
the bus will only stop to let you off at a bus stop sign!)

I wonder if bus companies outside London use the same rules?
--
Peter Lawrence