Why are people so rude on Buses in london?

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Georgio

Becasue they are STUPID!!!!
The only that is enough for me to say: "What's the fuc..g culture Britain have had"????

neetsoprano

This is the way our society is going. Basic good manners are the building blocks of a civilised society as they reflect/reinforce mutual respect and tolerance. Without them we see the animal within the human, stripped of the clothing of civilisation.

Now that education seems to be degenerating into simply a matter of containing the young whilst parents go out to earn enough to pay their taxes and utillity bills, who will instruct the young? Grandparents are marginalised and forgotten, parents too busy (or even now of the generations who first experienced degenerate education and therefore incapable of leading where they themselves were never led) and schools are far too busy writing endless reports for one government department or another.

starlet108

Yet again it comes down to the new 'multi cultural' britain. Politeness and manners have just been cast aside because many cultures dont have a clue about these things and wouldnt dream of giving a seat up for anybody. The true Brits have always been very good at stuff like this and forming an orderly queue etc because its how we are brought up. Sadly, we get laughed at & sh#t on by other cultures who take liberties with our good nature and so now its become the norm that everyone is out just for themself. Its the same with politeness - saying please and thankyou. You listen next time you go shopping and alot of the staff in shops dont bother saying it or if they do its a bored compulsory speech done by the company. I hate it !!!

brit-the-brit

Its the way of the whole world now im afraid, manners and polite ettiquette have gone out the window.....again its all down to British values being overthrown and too many PC brigadadeers ruining this country...

amad_85dkm

because many of the people do not have many manner anymore

litpooo

Blimey.. down here the drivers wont even help young mums with toddlers ans pushchairs and loaded with shopping.....or even the old folk..........I used to drive a bus and help ,but told them to stuff it when told off for running late...........the mind boggles

caroline17nov

thats london for you, noone is english anymore so no one speaks english and no one accepts responsibility for anything anymore.
people push past you they dont even look at you, best thing is to move countries!

ladybird 21

that's very rude. i would always offer my seat to one who needed it more than me. people are just so busy these days its like they don't even notice whats going on around them. no excuse for bad manners

izumi c

I dont know about London but If I have a seat I I give it up. What really burns me are young school kids who sit there and wont give up their seats for elderly people . Some give dirty looks when asked to stand .Those are types that me and a bus driver throw off the bus if they get too cockey . Some young ones think they are the local yakuza . Fools, strangely having a bus driver who is an ex Japanese ranger tends to help .

Claire S

Hardly anyone on London buses have any manours. Their either teenages with too much attitude, business people who think they are better then everyone else or people that don't understand a word of English! Its like it on the trains as well. People don't wait for others to get off before they try and get on and i get really ticked off with it becuase I have to use the trains everyday.

lovelylexie

If you thank the drivers or try to interact with them in any way, they look at you as though, you're from another planet.
Where I live, when you get off the bus, you say thanks to the driver and he/she will shout "nae bother!!"
Much nicer.

chanty

Cause that's the way they are my dear. A young guy will sit in bus
and he sees and old woman boarding and he`ll sit on his buttt.
That just goes to show that they very heartless even with there own people. Good Question!

AndyG45

I work in South London, and use both buses and the local tram system. These are both used by a large number of teenagers going to the local schools; these kids are far from angels, some of the estates around here are pretty grotty. Yes, these kids will push and shove to get on the tram/bus, BUT they will usually give up their seat for elderly people and/or people with shopping etc - in fact, if one of them does not give up his/her seat immediately peer pressure will usually force the issue.

This ain't a perfect world we live in, but there's still some hope!

Mark B

Working for a bus enquiry line I can say that its a nationwide problem.

Worst are the Pensioners with Bus Passes

london lady

Its called selfishness. Get used to it, everyone is selfish, some more so than others, its just life.

srracvuee

Mea those days are gone and the rudness comes from the fact that no-one speaks as they all speak different languages and no-one would understand. Wartime London was just lovely despite jerry knocking hell out of us and its all gone Infact i never leave the south to go back to London anymore I dont want to know it anymore

bex

Why are bus drivers in London rude??

The amount of times I have been left at the bus stop standing like a complete fool, with my arm stretched out waiting in fury as my bus continues down the road, rapidly becoming like a little red dot. I've noticed it happens when I have the buggy. Especially more so in winter.

How rude!!!

Roll on winter!!! With my gloves, scarf, padded jacket and thermal knee length boots, bought and waiting. I am ready and prepared to be left outside on those cold wintry days.

qwerty

that's just London for you but i think it might be the pollution killing peoples manners and kindness. i always smile and am approachable but it can also be because the buses smell so bad sometimes but people shouldn't be so rude don't see a reason to be.

Alutiiq Beauty

I know what you mean....... that is what happened to me and my little guy..... and a black taxi almost hit me because he was trying to turn around and when he turned, the car went on the pavement and was literally 6 inches from my legs. no respect ..... no respect I tell you.

Pington

I agree that there is a general lack of good manners, politeness and common courtesy on public transport in general - however, it's not just the passengers, the drivers frequently don't bother to stop at bus stops, I've watched them refuse to open doors and lower ramps for double buggys, and worse still wheelchair users. They are, for the most part, extremely rude and unhelpful - which cant help with passenger moods either.

It's infuriating to watch heavily pregnant women, pensioners, even someone on crutches being made to stand while being deliberately ignored by the person in the seat next to which they are standing.

On the flip slide, people can be very aggressive to any offers of help, or the implication that they need it - a woman struggling to get on the bus the other day with a buggy and two small kids, the guy behind her lifted one of the kids onto the bus for her and she freaked and hit him for touching her child!

Two Spirited

It might have to do with the fact that they have waited for that bus for three weeks and then finally 4 arrive at the same time!

deepak_k_rana

Well... No one is bad in the World... Only thing is... Everyone feels lonely.. When you alone in the Buses Most.. People start thinking about thier personal worries... and makes them Isolated from the world.

All we need... is a Good Smile... No one in the world will response to the sweet smile.. N It makes the day.. When i travel.. I dont know... Bt Kids makes my Day Wonderfuil.. May coz.. i love Kids...

So... give a Go today... Keep a Good Smile... :)

fatsausage

It's because we are not in a Major World War. During World War II
everyone was polite - "On the Buses" and "Off the Buses".
Of course that was before the Immigrants and the out of control Teenagers.

people on most buses are rude like that now adays its called being pig ignorant

efel

"CTA fires bus driver in tirade at woman
Elderly passenger berated over fare card

By Jon Hilkevitch
Tribune transportation reporter
Published October 7, 2006

The Chicago Transit Authority has fired a bus driver who it said spewed an expletive-filled rant at an elderly widow who didn't display her reduced-fare pass quickly, officials said Friday.

When told of the disciplinary action, the victim of the tirade said she wants a face-to-face apology from the six-year CTA bus driver and a promise that he won't retaliate against her.

"Shame on him for talking to an old lady like that," she said.

The bus drivers union said Friday that the 36-year-old CTA operator did nothing wrong, according to a union investigation.

A union spokeswoman said a grievance would be filed over the firing.

The elderly woman said she never wanted the bus operator, identified by the CTA as James M. McCollum of Chicago, to lose his job over the Sept. 11 incident in the Loop, which a fellow commuter on the No. 157 Streeterville bus reported to the Tribune and the CTA.

"The only thing I ask is that he meet me here in the Daley Center and apologize, and really mean it," said the woman, who works in the Cook County Circuit Court system.

She does not want her name or age disclosed because she is well known among the lawyers and judges in the Daley Center and, she said, people think she is much younger.

The woman, who isn't too far off the mark in joking that she has been riding the CTA for "almost 100 years," said she still can't understand why the driver berated her.

The verbal assault began when she didn't show him her reduced-fare permit immediately after boarding at Clark and Madison Streets, she said, adding she was carrying packages and afraid she might fall while the bus was moving.

She sat down in a seat right behind the driver to retrieve the pass from her purse, but the bus operator cursed her at length and threatened to throw her off the bus, she and witnesses said.

Could there have been any doubt on the driver's part that she was old enough to carry an AARP card?

"I like to be glamorous--they call me `jazzy' down here--and I still go dancing, but look at me! It's obvious I qualify for the senior citizen discount," she said.

McCollum, the bus driver, was suspended from service after the incident and fired on Thursday at the end of an investigation that included disciplinary hearings with the transportation manager and general manager of the Kedzie Avenue bus garage, where the driver was assigned, said CTA spokeswoman Noelle Gaffney.

McCollum and his union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241, will appeal the firing, said union spokeswoman Katheryn Hayes.

"The union conducted its own investigation and found there was dialogue between the driver and the passenger but nothing rude or discourteous was said or done on the driver's part," Hayes said.

McCollum could not be reached for comment. "

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