Has a bus journey ever gone wrong?
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31046)
United Kingdom
April 7, 2009 1:48pm CST
I took my toddler son out today for a lovely trip to a village called Cheddar. We went there by a pushchair friendly bus and that went journey was fine but coming home the bus was not pushchair friendly. It went on its way but broke down in another village. The bus driver kept the engine running. All the passengers and us had to wait ages. Then a tiny bus arrived that we all had to transfer to. Again it wasn't pushchair friendly.
I remember coming home with my toddler son when he was younger. We had been to a coastal town and the bus was not pushchair friendly. I was holding my son and sat on the left hand side of the bus. All of a sudden all the windows down the right hand side of the bus were broken and the glass came inside the bus in tiny pieces. I screamed because it was really frightening. Luckily it was safety glass but until I was told that I was scared.
Have you ever had a bus journey go wrong?
Does your local area have a good bus service?
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12 responses
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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7 Apr 09
Hi maximax8,
Where we are all buses are bushchair friendly and they have the prioty to the seats, if a mother and child gets on the bus, they can sit at the front if they wish and if any one is sitting there the have to move, matter of fact there are seats only for pushchair users and elderly people, also for disable people. Our local buses very frequant here.
Tamara
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
7 Apr 09
Thanks very much to you Tamara for telling me your local bus service is much better than mine. The mothers with babies have good treatment and so do the disabled people where you live. Here many elderly people have shopping baskets and there isn't anywhere for them to put them. Some services run once an hour and others are more frequent or meant to be. Sunday is a hopeless day for traveling by bus.
@max1950 (2306)
• United States
7 Apr 09
ive been keeping up on the bus problem you have where you live, this is more than a few times i've read where the bus company really doesn't do anything for the people of the town's, you should if possible, boycot the bus company until they start respecting the people who pay their $alaries. there are no bus's where i live so you either have a car or walk, when gasoline prices went thru the roof last year more and more people bought scooters and are using them now.
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
7 Apr 09
Thanks very much for your excellent response. It is a shame the you don't have any buses where you live. The bus company is getting rids of some of its services and is making timetable changes. The service will be getting even worse. A boycott of them is something I would welcome. The all day ticket costs £6.70p so the fares are way too expensive.
@rymebristol (1808)
• Philippines
8 Apr 09
i can still remember when the time my dad and i (i was 7 years old then) when we got stranded in a bus terminal cause he had lost our ticket after being on a stop over. the conductor didn't allowed us to board the bus even if my father is giving them money as payment cause there is no ticketing office nearby and it was already early in the morning (we took the night trip).
so far i had never been into a bus accident, even a flat tire
@jd107nette (1454)
• Philippines
8 Apr 09
Well I can't generalize... I mean, there are still a few of good buses.
Here in our locale, the problem isn't mostly with the bus, it's most commonly with the driver and the conductor. They detour without telling the passengers, they do not give bus tickets for short distance travels and they put the fare in their pockets..
@billgatexp (912)
• United States
8 Apr 09
A lot of times i have encountered such incidents and it has become a normal situation where your bus breaks down on the road and you just have to wait till it is fixed..
@vking9 (22)
• China
8 Apr 09
I had only once bus journey and that was a bad day.When the bus stopped,all the passengers didn't know where they were.Later three cars stopped beside us.We had to pay more 20 yuan for the additional car journey!
But i like bus journey in city very much.When it is raining,the journey gets more poetic~
@Darkwing (21583)
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8 Apr 09
I haven't had anything quite as bad as the last one you mentioned. I've had delays where the buses have broken down, and even one in Germany where the driver couldn't see my toddler on the bottom step waiting to get off, closed the doors and drove away with him still on the bus. Luckily, a guy got off the bus at the next stop with him and met me running up the road after the vehicle!
Do you know what made the glass smash on that bus. It sounds pretty awful to me. Was it trees or something, or did they just shatter without any particular reason?
Brightest Blessings my friend.
@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
8 Apr 09
That must have been such an experience for you... i will be very very scared if that happened to me especially if i am with my daughter...
The last bad or not so good bus journey i had was going home from a meeting with my boss... i decided not to eat dinner at her house because i wanted to arrive home early... but when the bus i was riding went pass the toll gate... hiway patrol stopped us and checked every little detail of the bus... including the lights and engine... we waited for like an hour for them to finish... and i suddenly regretted not eating dinner at my boss' house because i practically starved inside the bus... we cannot transfer because the area was a strictly no loading area...
@worldbestwriter2008 (1633)
• Philippines
8 Apr 09
yeah..i experience it myself while i was a student in a said university before where my parents sent me to a city then i just ride bus as my transportation going home and coming to school and the worst thing that ever happen and i considered it to be most unforgettable moments in my life was when a bus have almost hit the other bus in the intercession of the traffic light where there are many big busses too. the passenger that time are some are students some are parents and we thanks God. We were able to escape from danger.
@gxyywhyzy (450)
• China
8 Apr 09
we go out for a journey by bus,certainly it has only 10 kilometres far away from my house.sometimes we also ride bike.more times we go by bus.the bus drivers(women) always be polite and kind.
@vinslounge (1295)
• India
8 Apr 09
Excellent topic. Yes, it had happened many time for me. My local area have a very good bus service and i am vulnerable to sleeping in the bus. Once it happened to me when I was about to travel to my native which is a 250Km journey from my place. Things went worse when I slept on my way and travelled 50Kms more than my destined place. I ended up in paying an extra travel amount and fine for my carelessness.
