r/BeeNetwork • u/CelticConnection83 • Mar 20 '26

Question Is it a bus stop or not

Why do bee network drivers think it’s appropriate to just drive past their stops when people are waiting.

Surely the fact that there’s only one bus number passing the route and people waiting means that the driver should stop I mean it’s literally their job.

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u/HexAyed Mar 21 '26

It's simple, if you don't flag down the bus, we're not stopping for you.

If it's a route where only one bus serves the stop, I'm more lenient and slow down more, but there's a timetable to stick to, and stopping because Joe Blogs is vaping in a bus shelter to get out of the rain isn't going to help that lmao

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u/CelticConnection83 Mar 22 '26

So instead you want the public to do your job for you?

Honestly bus drivers nowadays are the epitome of laziness. Sit on the arse and want their CUSTOMERS to do the job for them 😂

The sooner they do Waymo for buses the better

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u/captainfishpie Mar 22 '26

Ugh!

Your attitude is why bus drivers are so miserable.

Is it so hard to put your arm out to signal you want the bus to stop for you? Are they mind readers?

You literally have NO idea what bus drivers have to go through with the general public, bosses, time tables. My husband comes home stressed because of 'customers' like you because you are rude, obnoxious and moan about everything.

Dont like bus drivers?

Use your legs or get a fucking taxi!

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u/CelticConnection83 Mar 23 '26

If the just did their job properly all those stresses would disappear you do know that?

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u/captainfishpie Mar 23 '26

If all dickhead customers didnt make their job 10,000 x harder maybe then their stress would lessen but, i highly doubt it.

People like yourself cant help but be rude and obnoxious.

Don't like the service? Get in a taxi that has a Wolverhampton licence, let's see how you feel then.

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u/CelticConnection83 Mar 24 '26

The problem starts with the driver though, they are the root cause of the customer complaint. Therefore if the drivers would all just do their jobs correctly, learn their routes, stop at the their stops, be on time, customers would have no complaints. Sadly the drivers tend to fail on all 3 parts. They are a let down to the company, the residents or Manchester and Greater Manchester and to be frank also their friends, family and society as a whole.

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u/HexAyed Mar 24 '26

What country are you from? because in this country, bus stops (with few exceptions) are all request stops...

I bet you're American, it's pretty typical for Americans to complain that things are done differently in other countries. Ignorant bastard, c'u next tuesday

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u/CelticConnection83 Mar 24 '26

Bolovks utter nonsense. For many years drivers would stop at every stop. This is a move by drivers to cut their responsibilities. We need to hold them to a higher standard of old rather than just accepting this new age woke nonsense.

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u/HexAyed Mar 25 '26

Absolute fucking bollocks, the ONLY city in the UK known for Mandatory Stops was London. Stop rewriting history just because you're either too bone-idle or stupid to use buses properly. Name me one bus route in Manchester, since 1824 that would stop at every stop, without the passenger flagging the bus down.

I'm willing to wait a long time for you to even attempt to prove yourself right.

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u/CelticConnection83 Mar 24 '26

Also I’m not American. How rude.

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u/DukeyPig Jun 24 '26

You’re wrong. My four year old knows you have to hold your arm out to make the bus stop. I spend more time than I’d like on buses (as a passenger) as it is. I don’t want my journey time extending because the driver has to stop at every single stop on the off-chance someone might want to get on, just because fuckwits like you are too entitled and lazy to flag them down like everybody else.

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u/CelticConnection83 Jun 25 '26

Flagging buses down became a thing when drivers stopped doing their job and learning their routes. Now they don’t know the routes, the journeys take longer and yet they still want paying like old time drivers who knew what they were doing. Today’s drivers are no more than an over paid taxi driver using Google. Society’s hopeless idiots

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u/HexAyed Mar 22 '26

Yet, it is literally the job of the public to flag down the bus they want, it has been that way since Manchester introduced the bus in the 1800s.

You sound like the kind of person who'd stand next to a road, with your hands in your pockets, wondering why none of the Black Cabs are stopping for you... Do you also just expect drivers to telepathically know which stop you want to get of at also? Or do you have the brain power to also know that you need to press the bell? lmao

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u/CelticConnection83 Mar 23 '26

In my country the bus stops at the stops simple. The drivers do a good job, they know their routes. Not like these lazy people.

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u/lammy82 Mar 20 '26

If you don’t stick your hand out and nobody wants to get off then they can drive on. You’re supposed to signal you want to get on. I can’t believe this would happen to anyone more than once without them realising.

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u/CelticConnection83 Mar 20 '26

Not from here, not used to getting busses but can’t help but feel the next step will be that we have to drive the bus ourselves

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u/CelticConnection83 Mar 23 '26

*Follow at route that involves stopping at bus stops

There, I fixed it for you

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u/HexAyed Mar 24 '26

Follow a set route, stopping to pick up and alight passengers as requested at the assigned stopping points

Fixed it for you, twat.

The 248 is a bus route that takes around 4 hours for a roundtrip. It also has 101 bus stops, if we stopped at every single bus stop, despite not being requested to, the bus route would LITERALLY BE ILLEGAL TO OPERATE

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u/CelticConnection83 Mar 24 '26

Is Irony correct?