File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0103, message 74


From: "dave graham" <davgraham-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: AUT: No 36 Bus
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:31:13 -0000


Dear all

Sometimes the right wing press is a better source of real news. This item 
was alongside a report of the RMT one day tube 'strike' - which probably has 
more to do with Mayor Livingstone's bust up with Blair than anything else. 
No doubt this comment will upset some more 'orthodox' readers.

I long for more reports such as this - preferably from participants.

Gra

PS the capitals are mine  - I hope folk are cheered by this 
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Passengers Mutiny on No 36 bus


Irate passengers trying to beat the Tube strike threw a conductor off a bus 
last night after he refused to let it get overloaded.

He was ordered off the No 36 Routemaster vehicle after holding it at several 
stops until passengers taking it above it maximum load alighted.

After taking more than an hour to travel from Paddington to Marble Arch, a 
journey of about three miles, the passengers suggested the conductor should 
leave ^Ñfor his own safety^Ò.

^ÑHe got off, lots more passengers got on, somebody pressed the bell and the 
bus went on its way without the conductor. It was very full but it completed 
its journey from Marble Arch to Victoria, about two miles, in just 15 
minutes,^Ò said Gus Zhulev, a finance manager.

He added: ^ÑI don^Òt think the driver realised what happened because the 
passengers rang the bell as though the conductor was still on board.

^ÑThe whole thing sort of MANAGED ITSELF. I don^Òt necessarily think it was 
right but it didn^Òt seem to do any harm.^Ò

The bus operator Arriva was unavailable for comment last night.

The Daily Telegraph Friday March 30 2001

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