Recent content by BuhSnarf

In fairness whilst it's probably not the politest way of going about saying it, there does need to be more announcements on some trains about allowing people to sit down. I've had a number of times where the person has refused to move a bag so I could sit down.

But they do not have the legal powers to compel someone to take the test, so it's a bit of a moot point?

I'm not sure that it's a slip in standards that means someone can physically chuck someone from the bus. Say the guy was actually unwell or even just travel sick? The driver suspected he was on drugs and maybe he as right, but there's plenty of other less illegal things that can make someone...

But train operators would have to hike fares much higher for it to benefit the coach. The train is already magnitudes higher than Flix/NX and people will still take the train. For example just looking at on the day prices for Leicester to London: I can get a Flixbus for this evening for...

Woah, let's not sully techno along with drum and bass and rap.

Found it, that was awful. Hope driver and all the pax were okay. Looked like they were smashing the bus up at points, hopefully it's not too badly bashed up also.

My local one in Leicester has had it for a number of years but looks like more have also done it recently with a recent article from the BBC. I did note whilst Googling that it's also common place in McDonalds all over the world too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3042824njdo But...

I'm not entirely sure, but I would assume the customer services team probably deals mainly in complaint / general queries rather than booking coach services now a days as most will just use the website.

I would assume that the volume of queries via phone is now so low that they are willing to take the hit on potential complaints from disgruntled customers using the call centre that the saving on outsourcing provides. Very sad for the colleagues affected, mind.

Yeah, this is what I've found. Pre-2000 the upper deck was smoking and downstairs was for Deirdre and Delores to be loudly complaining about the price of a loaf at Tesco. Now the upper deck is blasting out your speakerphone and downstairs is a competition for who can hold the longest most...

Well, Classic is actually quite a good thing for calming down situations - many McDonald's restaurants use this in the evenings to reduce anti social behaviour. Maybe the buses should pipe this over the speakers? I'd suggest sitting next to them and playing some Aqua or Vengaboys ;)

Upstairs or downstairs? They competing like some bus music dance off?

What are you searching on Facebook to find these videos as I can't see anything other than the usual drivel of "auditors" standing outside the cordon moaning about how the decay of the UK is why this is happening and AI voiced news reports?

You're right, tinny speakers is the main cause of annoyance - usually it's because these people have cheaper phones as if you get a more expensive phone they have much improved speakers. The other issue is that they put them at such a high volume that even the good ones struggle. Urgh, Tiktok...

I actually find that the music from phones is not as big an issue as people make out - I maybe encounter this once or twice a month and it's usually at the back on the top deck so it's not really annoying for me as I'm not sitting near them, it's the conversations on phones that are more...