[OT] Buses [was: Re: [plug] all your XXX belong to us (was: valentine)]

[James Devenish]

In message <20040216061241.GD22712 at patrick.wattle.id.au>
on Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:12:41PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Bernd Felsche wrote:
> | > There are certainly bus accidents and injuries -- I wonder how many
> | > of those were determined to have been caursed by car drivers?
> | Maybe the buses were travelling at excessive speed when carrying
> | unrestrained and standing pax...

Yes, that surely happens. However, in a given day, it seems that a
larger number of in-motion near-misses are caused by car drivers.
Not sure about embarking/disembarking accidents.

In message <20040216060404.GC22712 at patrick.wattle.id.au>
on Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:04:04PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Most of the Perth-Murdoch buses seem to be the old hinged
> "bus-and-a-half" type

LOL I assume you mean the articulated buses. (BTW, I think the slang is
"arctics".)

> they were generally half empty too,

During the middle of the day, I think they use the flat-floor Mercedes
buses.