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Reply 1
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Reply 2
They do lack legroom...but hey, what do you expect from buses? :rolleyes:
i seem to spend half my life on buses, and i concur, there is no legroom. and i'm only 5'6" :eek:

i have a very nice bruise on my knee because of it.
Reply 4
This is the problem there seats are two thick



Any student from Manchester will know the horrible double wheeled Magic Buses, (the imported Dennis Dragons) the distance between the front seat and the back of the other seat was just 10cm even a todler would have trouble fitting in such a tight space.

Then some big fat woman comes and sits next you you end up having lots of injuries.
i always used to sit at the back nxt to the firedoor. loads of room there
Reply 6
You should see the back seats on some of the Brighton & Hove buses... The seats are too small so you fall off into no legroom.
Hmm,being short it doesn't bother me.

I hate it when fat people sit next to me though.There are single seats for them,pfft.(Well they aren't actually for them but they should be!)
Reply 8
dogtanian
You should see the back seats on some of the Brighton & Hove buses... The seats are too small so you fall off into no legroom.


Yep I have been on one, I filmed the entire journey from Eastbourne to Brighton on the top of one, it was brand spanking new at the time but had no legroom at all.
Reply 9
Ah, I'm talking the back seats on the lower deck of some of the routes.

I'm not describing it well, you have to see it really.


I think it's to stop the youths sitting on the back seats, causing trouble, as youths do.

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They're the worst, not that the rest of their buses are any better.

Though the 25 (the student route) is comprised almost entirely of old vehicles, with proper bus seats. Not the most luxurious seats ever, but the legroom's alright.
Reply 10
Are you allowed to take photos on buses? You need permission to take photos in train stations nowadays!!

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Incidentally, I never have a problem with leg room. I can usually fully extend my legs on a bus/in a theatre etc (obviously with my legs angled going under the chair in front! I'm not THAT small)
Reply 11
I didn't take it, a quick google search found it and yes the photographer has got permision.

You are right though you are not allowed to take photos in train stations but they turn a blind eye to it as longs as you are not using a flash and its not for commercial use.

I think the simple rule is if the picture was taken on council land you can pretty much do what you want with the picture although if there are people in it that complicates it.

At university we made a DVD on Manchester and we were filming outside the GMEX, even though we had a letter explaining what we were doing we got moved on. Little did the security guard know that we had two cameras and he was being filmed during the incident :biggrin:
AT82
This is the problem there seats are two thick




That's like space cadets, videos/pictures of other buses stuck on the windows. Devious.

Anyway yeah, I hate those seats, and stupid pram-mothers come and take the only space that's left. I demand babies to be banned. The only good (non-amalgamated with chavs) area is the raised seats (just infront of the 2 * 2 ones). On that note, I can't believe I'm talking about buses.
Reply 13
I hate some young mothers on on buses

baby:cry cry cry
mother:wharrrrt shut your **** ** I mean.
answers phone: Wharrt, do you knoh where a am? I am on tha bus, I oi phohne ya back coz chavantal keeps cryin'

Then you get Mrs Merton and her mental son who stinks of urine sitting next to you.

If thats not enough the driver starts smoking and the chavs start throwing their empty stella cans around.
Reply 14
Gaah I missed space cadets.

The Chairs are small down here too, Im 5'10 and always end up in pain. The trains are even worse thou, at least with buses im noton them for 5 hours at a time.
AT82
I hate some young mothers on on buses

baby:cry cry cry
mother:wharrrrt shut your **** ** I mean.
answers phone: Wharrt, do you knoh where a am? I am on tha bus, I oi phohne ya back coz chavantal keeps cryin'

Then you get Mrs Merton and her mental son who stinks of urine sitting next to you.

If thats not enough the driver starts smoking and the chavs start throwing their empty stella cans around.


I swear, dodgy-looking old men who look like murderers and buses are like magnets. One guy started interrogating me asking me what I'd said to him (I'd actually said "no" to my friend 0.o) and one guy who looked like he'd just killed someone got on the bus, broke down crying and started hitting himself on the head repeatedly, staring at us for like 5 minutes at a time. Creepeh carefully watching him glaring in the window reflection at the corner of your eye :s:
AT82
Modern buses have thicker seats which eat into the legroom and must the buses in Manchester now have these coach style seats. It means I cannot sit on a single seat anymore and have to sit with my legs sideways taking up two seats.

I am only 6.1ft but I find it impossible to sit in certain positions? Has anybody else noticed this?
i sit diagonal-ways

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Bendy buses are wrong. The ordinary bog standard London buses are okay (despite them having Orwellian CCTV installations). And, despite being able to peer at the Ritz, I prefer the Tube because I actually like to go places.

As for the local buses out here in Sussex - totally sucky and expensive, not to mention filled with chavs. I avoid them like I avoid herpes.
tommorris
Bendy buses are wrong. The ordinary bog standard London buses are okay (despite them having Orwellian CCTV installations). And, despite being able to peer at the Ritz, I prefer the Tube because I actually like to go places.

As for the local buses out here in Sussex - totally sucky and expensive, not to mention filled with chavs. I avoid them like I avoid herpes.


Well just avoid the chavs and that's the herpes taken care of.
we have bendy bus's never been on one tho :biggrin: