Wednesday morning .. i caught the X41 same as usual ... its supposed to be at 9.44 but never is .. its always late due to the amount of people getting on in accrington .. its the first bus to manchester after 9.30am out of accrington, students going in late to uni, people going shopping, going through to the airport, people going to work. Its always busy not many seats by the time it gets to haslingden ... sometimes they've even refused to take anymore passengers on as they cant go down the motorway with passengers standing ..
Anyway yesterday morning ... gets on the bus as normal and when i got on .. there was already 4 people standing then. He picked another passenger up at Acre .. and then into Haslingden. He'd already said that he was going through Bury and rang thro to the office to say that he was going through bury as there were people standing. Haslingden the queue for people to get on the bus was mainly pensioners ... 5 got on ..and one actually got off again .. there was no way she could make it to Manchester standing as she had a walking stick. Thing is no one offered their seat of the younger generation who were sat near the back. Not even people my age or a bit younger did either.
I was always brought up by mum when i was travelling on a bus and i had a seat that if a pensioner or someone older than me or in poor health or a mum with kids ..to always offer my seat and stand myself. I told another person about this and they said we were brought up to respect our elders .. something which kids nowadays arent. Now most of you are all on mums and dads .. so what do you say to that?
By the way i have sent an email to transdev .. lancashire way etc ... to complain and to ask for the double decker's to be put on at that time .. rather than a single deck. whether i get anywhere is a different matter ..
