Why don’t people queue in bus stop anymore?

I live in a semi rural locatioon, eveyone sits on the seats in the shelter and chat until the bus arrives, very civilised.

Spanish don't know what queueing is!! Love coming to the UK to daughter in Leicester and son in Bristol. As you say nearly everyone is polite and everyone thanks the bus driver, so nice.

Isn’t the queueing problem in London more about the fact that a lot of different buses stop at the same stop. You need several queues and you don’t know who is waiting for which bus. The main problem is for people in wheelchairs and with buggies fighting for one or two spaces.

In our village, we just stand around in a loose group at the bus stop, but everyone knows the order they arrived and gets on in the correct sequence, although it's quite common for someone to urge someone old or disabled on first. It's all terribly courteous. There's always room on the bus, so there's nothing to get stressed about.

There are a lot of Korean people in the area where I live (in London), and I have yet to come across a more polite, deferential group when I encounter them on the buses.

Sometimes crowds of young tourists just ignore us patient souls queueing politely. I give them 'the face' and they usually get the message.
I've seen idiot tourists trying to pay bus fares in dollars and being amazed they aren't accepted. Some tour groups of 30-40 people crowd on the buses and local people on their way to work are left standing at the bus stop as the bus is full. Oh no. I'm off on one! Bring in the tourist tax ASAP!

To summarise a previously poster- Only the Brits know how to queue and busses are full of impolite foreigners (sigh)
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. In the centre busses are full of tourists, the locals know its much quicker to take the tube, walk or cycle. Queuing isn’t really necessary as you know you’ll always get on a bus as they’re so frequent.

We queue here, although you do sometimes get the sneaky sods who try and hover around on the sides of the queue and slot themselves in.

The uncomfortable truth is that the polite and orderly queue is a British phenomenon and hardly anyone in
London is now British. I worked in London for the last 25 years and I have watched it happen.

If you think the worst offenders are school children, you haven't met my mother. Oh, the shame I feel as she walks up, straight to the front of the queue, and on the bus she goes. I bring up the rear, apologising to everyone as I go.

People still queue here.

It's not children who don't queue, its adults. I think it's a London thing and the only way to get on a bus is to join in the free for all.

We queue very politely here too, even the school children. Everyone thanks the driver as they alight too. As others have said, it must be a city thing.

Haven't seen an orderly queue for years here in London, if you can't beat em join em is my motto nowadays ??

They queue here too, and thank the driver as they get off. It must just be in London that it is every (wo)man for himself.

Still queue round here very orderly in fact, maybe it’s a city thing, and everybody just everybody thanks the driver as they get off, poor thing must hear it a million times a day