The humble London bus is crap, MPs acknowledge

[cleanbluesky]

MPs acknowledge failures in non-London buses, stupidly cite London busess as a sucess

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6086668.stm

The committee's chairman, Labour MP Gwyneth Dunwoody, said: "The public image of buses needs to be improved.

"There is still a perception that bus services are generally unreliable and of a poor quality; that vehicles are old and inaccessible; that drivers are rude and that passengers are unsafe and uncomfortable."

The strange thing about bus drivers is that they're possibly the most polite drivers on the road, but as soon as you step into their big red box they're officious and obnoxious anti-social rejects who think they can hold you to account over the slightly-malformed copper coins you give them to pay their extortionate fare...

 

[cleanbluesky]

Surely this article says that the London bus service is good (because it is regulated) and mostly it just talks about perception in other areas rather than the actual service.

No, its saying that deregulation has made the service worse, it does not subjectively rate the quality before deregulation

 

[cleanbluesky]

Implies that the London system should be researched as a model for regional bus services. This certainly doesn't imply your title statement.

Well spotted... I attempted to edit to reflect that, but it was unsuccessful