Buses World News
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The Night Bus * UK; The erotically charged world of after-hours transport ? ...
* England - Nocturnal naughtiness on the N29. Channel 4’s explores transport, where all sectors of society come together for a late-night snog
-- Those living outside London, where public transport costs £8 a mile and ends at half-five in the evening, might be unfamiliar with the charms/horrors of Transport For London’s night bus... The saviour and the captor, delivering you home from whatever dank hell you’ve just spunked a quarter of your pay packet in, at approx three miles an hour, while other people’s alcohol breath condenses on the rattling window you’re trying to kip on. It’s the setting in which total mental and spiritual collapse hinges on something as small as forgetting your headphones, and it’s totally unsurprising that it’s the latest backdrop for some all-life-is-here-style observational programming, combining low-key mundanity and lots of scope for the awed gaze of the documentarian used to living it up on UberExec. The voiceover on The Night Bus tells us that it’s “the start of the party”; “a place to make new friends”. News to me, mate. I greet those lost souls attempting to “make friends” at the tattered end of their nights out with the same enthusiasm as I do a bailiff’s letter... Keeping this heady climate in check is the good humour of bus driver Tony (“Next stop: Holloway Prison for naughty ladies”) who’s been doing the job for nearly 30 years but should really consider getting his own show (Charon The Buses? Just an idea). Opinion is split over the kind of drivers who, like Tony, drip dad-humour over the Tannoy, but I’m down with it. No one wants to be on a night bus, and only an idiot would grant them legendary status...
(Photograph: Ryan Mcnamara - The Night Bus - It looks like a Berni's -Argentine painter- painting) -- London, EN, UK - The Guardian, by Filipa Jodelka - 11 May 2015Labels: late-night buses
Night Buses * Canada - Busy as partiers shift to transit
Aldergrove,BC,Canada -BC Local News, by Jeff Nagel -October 6, 2010: -- TransLink is adding more late-night buses to meet demand from revellers who increasingly want to take transit rather than drive home after drinking... B.C.'s tough new drunk driving penalties – stiffer fines, impoundments and licence suspensions kicked in Sept. 20 – are the apparent reason for the behaviour shift, Coast Mountain Bus Co. officials say... NightBuses run out of downtown after SkyTrain stops running, mirroring the rapid transit system and some other high-traffic corridors... Several NightBus routes switched in late September from standard buses to longer higher-capacity articulated buses that take about 110 passengers... Friday and Saturday nights have been particularly busy, Zabel said, with standing room only on many buses... NightBuses cover more ground than the three SkyTrain lines, they argue, and road congestion rarely causes slowdowns that late at night... The last SkyTrains leave downtown Vancouver around 1:15 a.m, well before most bars close... (Photo Aldergrove Star: The last SkyTrains out of downtown Vancouver leave around 1:15 a.m. NightBus service takes over after that)Labels: late-night buses
Late-night Buses * Australia - Axing they, "a grave error"
International road safety advocate Joel Taggart believes the State Government made a grave error by axing late-night Wandering Star buses
Adelaide,South Australia,Australia -The Advertiser Adelaide, by ANNA VLACH -June 18, 2007: -- The cancellation in February of the services, which delivered passengers to their doors, would result in more youths drink driving, he said... Statistics show more than a third of 16-25 year-old drivers killed in SA in the five years to 2005 recorded a blood alcohol content of at least .05... Covering the southern, southern Hills, far south, Adelaide Hills, north, northeast and western suburbs, Wandering Star buses operated between 12.30am and 5am on Fridays and Saturdays... Passengers were driven home for a fee of $6... Labels: late-night buses
