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The mention of safety due to lack of doors does not add up, as none of the Routemaster busses at the time had a door at the bottom of the stairs. Jumping on an
by craz8 4y ago
The mention of safety due to lack of doors does not add up, as none of the Routemaster busses at the time had a door at the bottom of the stairs. Jumping on and off was the normal thing.
The many tunnels under the Thames are awesome though - I used to live in Woolwich and there’s a pedestrian tunnel there that I’ve used many times
- dcminter 4y agoRight, but the Routemaster doesn't have a five foot drop from the staircase to the ground!
- craz8 4y agoBut you could jump off at any speed - or get jostled and fall off accidentally if hanging on to the pole that was provided in the doorway. Falling into traffic at 30mph isn’t a bundle of laughs either My guess is the door requirement was to avoid needing to scrape people off the single lane roadway in rush hour more than a thought for passenger safety and that difference may have got lost on the way to the page
- quickthrower2 4y agoNever seen a bus in central london go that fast. Often it is quicker to walk.
- klondike_klive 4y agoI quickly learned never to stay on the 38 as far as Shaftesbury Avenue...
- lifeisstillgood 4y agotouché