Why don’t people queue in bus stop anymore?

We're very polite here:
"After you"
"No, after you!"
"No, I insist, after you!!" Until someone gives in.

Bus passes for Senior Citizens can't be used before 9.30 unless that's now changed. I had a Disabled Bus Pass when DVLA withdrew my Driving Licence which allowed me to travel at anytime however when Senior Citizen's Passes could be used nationwide instead of starting/ending in County Disabled Pass was altered from all day to same restrictions as Pensioners, most unfair if you worked as I did. I haven't travelled by bus for a few years but rarely had a problem with people pushing in

Isn’t the habit of thanking the driver so lovely, and such an anachronism. When you think of how many old fashioned courtesies have been dropped over the years. Mind you, my adult children, from childhood, always thank me or their dad, whoever’s driving, when they’re leaving the car, and, now I come to think of it, I thank my husband when he drives too!!

My 2 youngest DGC have a long journey from home to school. I try to pick them up and take them as much as I can otherwise its 2 (service) buses at 60p per child per bus. Plus the adults full fare each way. In other words very expensive.

GrandmaMoira
I live in the southwest and frequently come across a similar behaviour with our park and ride system. There are seating facilities undercover which many use instead of standing in a queue at the bus stop. Immediately the bus appears the 'rush!!!' starts. I am one of those ' living longer' but find the worst offenders are not the' young' but sadly the 'not so young'

We queue round here - East Midlands. If someone's there before you, you proffer your hand to motion them on first. We talk to each other too. It must be the very much larger cities where it's everyone for themselves.

Growing up we had a pole with a bus stop sign and everyone would line up neatly starting at the pole. Nowadays most of our bus stops have shelters so everybody just crowds in and there is no opportunity to "form an orderly queue". Having said that I have never not been able to get on a bus because it was full so it doesn't really matter.

gillybob The only free travel my DGCs get is to school and back their mum has to apply every year to make sure the are still a certain distance from school to qualify other wise it would cost her £7.50 per day for each child and she has 2 there at the moment,but other travel on buses has to be paid for only school travel is free.

Last Bus in this village was 1956.

And no, that didn't stop me from applying for a Bus Pass... which I only use when I go to London.

I've got a right bee in my bonnet today about bloomin' bus fares.
First I am cross that rich oldies travel for free when they could easily pay a token fare, then I find that children in London pay nowt either.

Our young people and their parents here in the North (and elsewhere I would guess) are being well and truly ripped off.

To those who commented that people don't queue in London because they are mostly foreigners and it is probably not in their culture to do so.... well, enjoy your civilised village/small town living for now because if you fast forward 30 years or so, on present birth and immigration rates the statistics show that the British will be in the minority in the UK.

Yes, half price or thereabouts for children here. I find a lot of London born people who move down here are disappointed with what's on offer for pensioners.

Blimey they are lucky suzied children have to pay here in the North East. But this is the back end of nowhere (the land that governments forgot) so hardly surprised.

I really enjoy bus travel, especially now that I have my bus pass and don't have to pay the exorbitant fares. We have a bus terminus in town and people catching buses there are a model of decorum. People are usually deferential, courteous and polite. If some of the Italian and Spanish students from the local international school are there (easily recognisable by the increased decibels when they're speaking/screeching) it takes only a ferocious look to quell them and get them herded into position.

Under 18s who live in London can travel free on bus and tram. Under 11 from anywhere can travel free in London. This means hordes of kids queue for buses to travel one or two stops when in the past they would have walked.

Still queue here, too, as far as I see when I pass any bus stops.

In my experience in London outside of the city and west end, most busses are full of the elderly and under 18s who get free travel

Since when did under 18's get free travel suzied ?

They certainly don't up here in the North East.

I don't do queues either. Prompted by the experience of my bus leaving without me as I couldn't get through the crowd to make my presence known. If I have the odd adverse comment I immediately usher the 'offended' to board in front of me. Don't care how many are ahead of me as long as I get on.

We queue quite orderly here but you can still come across the usual "sidewinder" who tries to shuffle in at the front if I am near by the elbows will come out and a polite shove will suffice.
Don't start me on mums with oversized prams who think they have the right of passage to the front of the queue.

The worst I've ever encountered was in the algarve. Stood at bus stop for nearly an hour with about 5 other people. Bus eventually turns up and people materialised from nowhere & started to get on!! My oh and I eventually got on, no seats together and I ended up sat next to a lady carrying a pig. My oh had a gentle and 2 chickens for company. The bus was full. Still don't know where they came from

A friends partner who drives a bus informs us that the elderly are referred to as 'Twirlies'
They are always trying to get on the bus before 9, when their bus pass is valid, and saying "Oh, am I too early?"

My daughter used to say it was the oldies who were a menace at bus stops. She and her friends would get on the bus in order but an oldie would knock them sideways to get on first!

We still queue around here. Or sit in the little bus shelter and then get on the bus in order. Just occasionally I get tempted to take all my clothes off and shout "The Aliens are coming" Just to stir things up a bit.

SuzieD obviously lives in a different part of London than I do. We don't have tubes and not many people walk. The buses are crowded and not that frequent and I only see a lot of elderly when I'm away from home. As Gadabout said, the buggy wars cause a problem. I have to use buses but don't like them.