Comments on: 10 Tips for Riding London Buses

By: Aimee

Aimee — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:47:05 +0000

Paul can walk 20-30 minutes at a stretch. It’s just that he only covers about a half-mile in that time. Yesterday he rode his bike to school, which is almost entirely downhill from our house. It took us *forever* to get home last night! It usually takes me about 15 minutes when I push them both in the bike trailer/stroller, and it took us almost 40 minutes!

By: Cottontimer

Cottontimer — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:07:03 +0000

Hi Aimee!! So nice to see you here. Stephen has classmates who are used to walking 20-30 minutes at a stretch. They put us to shame. Ah well. I’d rather have a peaceful journey on the bus with him than have him carrying on about having to walk.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:08:31 +0000

Regarding #10, this is especially important if you’re with small children. We frequently take the bus from downtown Webster Groves (oh, by the way, we moved to just outside St. Louis in October) to our house, which is .7 miles. (This is usually when we’ve gotten off another bus that leaves us in downtown WG, so we’re tired from whatever activity we’ve been doing.) For me, this is about a 10-12 min. walk, so if I’m alone, I wouldn’t dream of taking the bus. But when Paul is walking and I have Marc in the stroller, it takes us a full TWENTY-FIVE minutes. Ugh.

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By: Cottontimer

Cottontimer — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:31:58 +0000

Sheila, Ouch!! The same goes with all the stairs in many of the houses in England.

By: Cottontimer

Cottontimer — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:31:15 +0000

Gloria, I definitely recommend walking in London whenever possible!

By: getsheila

getsheila — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:56:16 +0000

When descending from the upper deck, hold the hand rail and watch your step ALL THE WAY DOWN.

I missed the very last of those teeny tiny corkscrew-like steps and landed with my back on the stairs even though my hand was still on the rail. Ow.

By: Gloria

Gloria — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:21:21 +0000

he he. sounds a like like Manila (Philippines). though I dare not walk in Manila because of the congestion and air pollution.

except for the double-decker bus. we don’t have those.

(i just asked my mother, there were double-decker buses in Manila in the 60’s!)

if I were in London, I will walk! I bit the sights are a lot better than Manila.

By: Cottontimer

Cottontimer — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:37:14 +0000

Oh yeah. I hate it when people get rowdy upstairs. Usually happens when school lets out. Scares the little kiddies too. Grrr.

lol @ “train them to be nice to me”

By: Rosie

Rosie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:32:19 +0000

My additional advice:

– avoid sitting upstairs if there’s no-one else up there when taking the night bus

- if a fight breaks out on the top deck, assume the crash position they show you on planes. this way when the people fighting fall on top of you, you suffer minimal damage.

- if you get the opportunity, especially on regularly travelled bus routes, smile and say thank you to the bus driver as you get off the bus. They deal with the crappiest people abusing them day in day out, my personal goal is to train them to be nice to me.