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Buses too crowded

Kabi

Helo everyone. It's been a long time since I posted anything. Things have been going well for the most part.

But I have a slight issue with the one place I go on a Monday. I don't really like going there but I can withstand it for the best of times and just zone out. The problem is the bus ride there. I don't know why, but I am very nervous about getting on this bus. Nothing bad has happened on it that I can acount for. But It's so crowded. The bus I get on has a huge number of collage students on it (which I've had bad experiance with before) and it really frightens me to be in such a close space with so many of them at the same time. I keep thinking that one of them is going to pick on me. (Like I said, past experiance) That combined with the fact that I don't want to go there to begin with, I'm thinking about just getting a later bus...but I don't know.

This is a fairly small problem but please help. Thank you. ^^

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  • Buses are vulnerable places because the driver, while being within the interior of the bus, has no assistance like a conductor in "the old days", and cannot really do much about what goes on at the back or upstairs. Supposedly they can stop the bus and remove offenders but there are limits to this especially if young people are involved, and I suspect drivers stick to driving as long as they can do so without having to intervene.

    However buses come within the disability discrimination act, just they have longer timescales. Too much is about wheelchair access, and one flaw is that there is a later deadline for adjusting double deckers so a lot of older double deckers have been brought back in service (single deckers fitted out previously for disabled access being superceded, meaning new buses to be purchased come the deadline).

    There isn't enough attention paid to other disabilities. If it is a school bus the school may have an obligation to place staff on the bus to ensure the actions of children do not make it hard for those with disabilities. The school bus is one of those "out of sight" places (like toilets, classes without a teacher present, and out of view areas of school grounds) where bullying most often takes place. So there may be a case for insisting School Governors consider disability interests in allocating school buses.

    With the commercial bus services this is less straight forward because there is still a notion of disability just being that of accommodating blind passengers or wheelchair users. Education about other disabilities is not happening (and should under the act), and taking responsibility for other disabled needs looks like pie in the sky.

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  • Buses are vulnerable places because the driver, while being within the interior of the bus, has no assistance like a conductor in "the old days", and cannot really do much about what goes on at the back or upstairs. Supposedly they can stop the bus and remove offenders but there are limits to this especially if young people are involved, and I suspect drivers stick to driving as long as they can do so without having to intervene.

    However buses come within the disability discrimination act, just they have longer timescales. Too much is about wheelchair access, and one flaw is that there is a later deadline for adjusting double deckers so a lot of older double deckers have been brought back in service (single deckers fitted out previously for disabled access being superceded, meaning new buses to be purchased come the deadline).

    There isn't enough attention paid to other disabilities. If it is a school bus the school may have an obligation to place staff on the bus to ensure the actions of children do not make it hard for those with disabilities. The school bus is one of those "out of sight" places (like toilets, classes without a teacher present, and out of view areas of school grounds) where bullying most often takes place. So there may be a case for insisting School Governors consider disability interests in allocating school buses.

    With the commercial bus services this is less straight forward because there is still a notion of disability just being that of accommodating blind passengers or wheelchair users. Education about other disabilities is not happening (and should under the act), and taking responsibility for other disabled needs looks like pie in the sky.

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