Bus 841 doing service 41, a part route bus ending at Waverley, Sep 30. Driver announced the end of service and forced folks to get off, a stop before Waverley, at Frederick Street corner, and openly told questioners it was because he wanted his dinner.
Waverley means Waverley, Bridge or Steps, east end of Princes Street. Absolutely not a point west of the Mound.
Bus complaints, with all the local companies, have a very bad track record of them hiding behind various European rules for workers to claim they can't reveal, whether drivers who bully passengers actually have suffered commensurate and deterrent retribution.
This case cuts right through that corrupt princple. If a service ends early and folks are charged a further fare on the next bus, that is extortion of false fares. When you have a free pass, if you have to bleep it again on the next bus after an incident like this, then the driver's offence extorts the company a false second fare at public expense.
Hence, the company can either be publicly pilloried as extorting extra fares by not operating as billed, or else it must tell us quite specifically and committally that as a fact it is recovering the extra fare from the driver, as retribution, not from the state.
Valuable information on the disability discrimination law has been shared by the mental health campaign Vox. It requires accommodations to be made for all disability groups' needs in using ordinary facilities which they can use, like a bus. Under this, an accommodation that autistic spectrumites are entitled to, is that all information is to be taken literally, including the destination on the front of a bus. We can't be expected to guess culturally that a bus is not really going to where it says but to somewhere short of there. Hence, disability discrimination law requires all buses saying "Waverley" to actually go as far as Waverley Bridge or Steps. See.
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Bus and HGV drivers are bound by rules concerning drivers hours and rest breaks which are in place to reduce the possibility of the driver falling asleep or losing concentration and thereby injuring or killing a lot of people.This is more important than the bus being a few minutes late or other minor inconveniences.The driver is reqired by law to take his breaks and would be prosecuted if he continued driving when his mandatory break time had begun.
ReplyDeleteAre you suggesting that if the bus was late when this magic moment arrived, the service should halt at any point far short of destination and turn everyone off? This jerk was 1 stop from destination.
ReplyDelete24 Feb 11:First may I offer my most sincere apologies for the delay in a reply being forwarded to you. This was due to an oversight on our part. [ I had told them about the SASN project when chasing for it.]
ReplyDeleteThe incident involving the driver of a service 41 has been dealt with by management at the depot where this service operates from. The driver was incorrect in ninforming passengers to alight from his vehicle in Princes Street. The correct location was the stop opposite the Waverley Shopping Centre at the Disney Store. Clearer instructions have been placed on the driver's timeboards to ensure that the bus travels to the correct destination when they are operating a part route service. The comments which he made were totally inappropriate and this was brought to his attention at his disciplinary interview.