On 29 Mar, 17:03, Paul Terry wrote:
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Of course I understand the decision to terminate early was not the
driver's unilateral decision, but the decision not to issue individual
tickets was.

I've now found what I was looking for on the TfL website:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi...tre/11105.aspx

"If a bus is curtailed short of its advertised destination and there are
passengers on board who wish to travel further, the driver should issue
a 'transfer ticket' to the driver of the next through bus."

That implies to me that the driver should have issued the ticket to the
next driver, not to a passenger.

It implies to me that the notion that each passenger should be
presented with "their own" individual transfer ticket is a complete
red herring. In some circumstances I can't see that it would be a
heinous crime for the driver to ask one of the passengers to oblige
him by passing the ticket on to the next driver on his behalf. I
suspect most people would have no problem in doing this. There could,
for example, be a horrendous gap in the service in the opposite
direction and plugging that at the earliest possible moment might be
felt to be a more productive use of the driver than remaining as a
kind of nanny or paper-pusher. Perhaps not the CORRECT procedure but
surely there should still be room for a modicum of common sense,
useful discretion by the driver and helpful co-operation between
driver and passengers? The insinuation without any apparant evidence
at all that the driver in the example given was necessarily a
beneficiery of the short-turning to facilitate fags/coffee and that it
was down to "laziness" on his part that all passengers were not issued
with individual transfer tickets seems to me to be unreasonable and
"shooting the messenger". With radio control, drivers destined to be
picking up transferred passengers will in most cases be notified of
this in advance so a sense of proportion should perhaps be brought to
bear in relation to the logistics of the same group of passengers
continuing their journey from the same location and time.
--
gordon