* UK - Buses run into trouble
Rising numbers of rowdy students are annoying adult passengers, distracting drivers and scaring younger children. Whose job is it to control them?
London,England,UK -The Guardian, by Polly Curtis -June 5, 2007: -- Sometimes, when John Norris is driving the No 5 bus through east London, he might get chatting to one of the thousands of pupils who pour out of the schools along his route and on to a bus home. It's often a quiet kid, maybe a bit studious-looking, he says, seeking some reassurance while all hell is breaking loose on the top deck... Norris puts the overcrowding - regularly beyond the legal recommended limits - down to the free bus travel for under-16s (and under-18s in full-time education) introduced by the mayor, Ken Livingstone, in the capital. He says many more students now take buses home instead of walking or using the tube... His experience is echoed by reports last week of a sharp increase in antisocial behaviour on buses in London. In the year since the free travel scheme was introduced, in September 2005, there were 5,701 reports of crimes by under-16s on buses, compared with 3,666 in the previous year, a 55% increase...
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