Let me preface this by saying I'm used to the London bus driver attitude of shutting doors when you're 1ft away from getting on, pulling off without letting all passengers off, that kind of ******** attitude. It's part of living in London sadly, but you learn to live with it.
This morning however was a completely different story. The bus was standing at his stop which is on a dual carriageway. He sees me running to him from his 2'o'clock angle, at which point he shuts his doors and pulls off. I then run right in to his path waving my arms and he swerves his bus right across two lanes to avoid having to let me on. Now it might sound like "hurrr you ran in to the path of an oncoming bus" but at that point he was barely moving.
I got on the next bus which luckily had a driver in a hurry and caught up with the first bus at Brixton. I got on his bus and took a photo of the bus ID plate and tried to take a photo of the driver which he refused by putting his hands on the glass. I told him he put my life at risk and those of all his passengers to which his reply was "I don't give a **** mate" and tried to shut the doors with me still on the bus. I pressed the emergency door open and got off and he sped off in to the early morning sun like a scalded cat, again driving like a nutter.
I'm going to put a freedom of information request in to get the footage from the front of the bus to show just how dangerous this guy is, and escalate it.
For about a decade now I've shrugged these guys off. They're all rude, obnoxious, racist scumbags who seem to get pleasure out of being ***** to the general public, an they all have one thing in common: They all work for Arriva.
I'm pursuing it this time. I pay a lot of money to use these services and quite frankly if I were to treat even one of my customers like this I'd be out of a job the same day.
Stay tuned.
This morning however was a completely different story. The bus was standing at his stop which is on a dual carriageway. He sees me running to him from his 2'o'clock angle, at which point he shuts his doors and pulls off. I then run right in to his path waving my arms and he swerves his bus right across two lanes to avoid having to let me on. Now it might sound like "hurrr you ran in to the path of an oncoming bus" but at that point he was barely moving.
I got on the next bus which luckily had a driver in a hurry and caught up with the first bus at Brixton. I got on his bus and took a photo of the bus ID plate and tried to take a photo of the driver which he refused by putting his hands on the glass. I told him he put my life at risk and those of all his passengers to which his reply was "I don't give a **** mate" and tried to shut the doors with me still on the bus. I pressed the emergency door open and got off and he sped off in to the early morning sun like a scalded cat, again driving like a nutter.
I'm going to put a freedom of information request in to get the footage from the front of the bus to show just how dangerous this guy is, and escalate it.
For about a decade now I've shrugged these guys off. They're all rude, obnoxious, racist scumbags who seem to get pleasure out of being ***** to the general public, an they all have one thing in common: They all work for Arriva.
I'm pursuing it this time. I pay a lot of money to use these services and quite frankly if I were to treat even one of my customers like this I'd be out of a job the same day.
Stay tuned.
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