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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2014 3:07:05 GMT -1
You find somebody's bus ticket on the ground on a West End street, very near the bus stop you're heading towards. The bus you just missed was firing off into the distance and there's nobody left at the stop to ask if it was theirs. It's a monthly ticket which costs £45. There's a place on the back of the ticket where, if you remember to, you write your phone no in case of loss--- so obviously you look for the person's number to phone them, but it's blank. The ticket shows the shop outlet where it was bought, with the date and time. Said outlet is at least 5 miles away. It also shows the dates it's valid. You consider that the person who's lost it is unlikely to be a wealthy person and having to buy a whole new one might be a stretch, particularly this time of year. (It's not a schoolchild or an OAP, given status of ticket). £45's a week's shopping, two weeks leccy or gas, after all. Do you head down to Partick polis station and hand it in, knowing that they have to keep it for what, three months, and hope it'll be claimed? It's only valid for a few weeks, and the person's probably already had to just buy an immediate replacement? Do you fire off even further to the shop where it was bought in the hope the person can be identified via their records--but only if they paid by card and not cash? Or, do you keep it and use it, given that, by some bizarre coincidink, your own monthly ticket runs out tomorrow? Answers on a postcard. Or here, preferably.  |
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Post by ozneil on Dec 13, 2014 9:16:42 GMT -1
Phone Bus depot tell them time and place you found it and if anyone comes forward to claim it they will be local to you as thats where they dropped it.
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leave a few minutes earlier and see if anyone at the bus stop is asking about the missing ticket
It cost someone a lot of cash I think
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Post by notanimby on Dec 13, 2014 9:53:16 GMT -1
Phone Bus depot tell them time and place you found it and if anyone comes forward to claim it they will be local to you as thats where they dropped it. or leave a few minutes earlier and see if anyone at the bus stop is asking about the missing ticket It cost someone a lot of cash I think What he said!  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2014 19:54:46 GMT -1
Good call Very clever plan I'd not thought of. I googled the postcode of the shop where it was bought. It's in the East End, one of the poorest bits.  so unlikely to be local person has bought it unless they maybe work nearby? (Stop I found it near is very busy one in West End and I won't be at it until next weekend! Your Plan B 'might' have worked had it been the stop outside, so few use it I'm on nodding acquaintance with most!) Wean thinks most people wouldn't contact either polis or bus operators, just cussed their own luck and probably bought a new ticket, thinking nobody'd hand it in. Suggested I report it, use it while valid meantime and make a £45 donation to foodbank if it's not claimed. So I've emailed Firstbus. Also told them the new monthly tickets are a disaster waiting to happen---unlike the previous ones, they're the shape of a bookmark, not a card-shape, so they don't fit a wallet or purse. I've taken to carrying mine in my coat pocket too, which is why I know how bloody easy it is to lose one. And try to remember to put phone no each time I renew..... Got me to thinking though. Had it been £45 cash would I have gone out my way to hand it in to Partick polis? I'm a bit 50/50 on that, to be (dis)honest! The other month I found a £20 note on the floor in the bar at an East Lothian hotel I'd treated mother to a few days break at. Handed it in. Overheard bar staff discussing putting in their tips...  |
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Post by ozneil on Dec 14, 2014 20:09:24 GMT -1
I think wean is right owner will cuss luck and buy another if he/ she can afford it but you have to try
Does ticket work on a daily basis of a trip basis?
Here we have choice unlimited trips for a day or a week in defined zones or a Trip10 10 trips over any period of time.
If its the former why not use it till owner turns up, he wont lose anything.
one conjectures someone in east end (Dennistoun? I used to live in Craigpark) and working in West end or perhaps out on the turps and having wobbly boots on and dropping it... what time of day was it?
Coz Im a Senior Citizen & not a Pensioner I get unlimited travel on Buses, trains and ferries for $2.50
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2014 22:51:01 GMT -1
The £45 ticket's open, Oz, you can use it for the month it's valid, on however many buses you need to get to your destination, on a hop on, hop off basis. It'd be grand to reunite ticket with owner, as you say. If you don't have the £45 upfront to pay your ticket and you use the bus daily for a month, it's gonna cost at least twice that. And way more if you use more than one bus each journey. As ever, only those with regular income can afford to cashflow their upfront purchase and IT PISSES ME RIGHT OFF. No reply from Firstbus yet. That'll be because it's the weekend.....grrrrrr. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2014 23:27:14 GMT -1
Coz Im a Senior Citizen & not a Pensioner I get unlimited travel on Buses, trains and ferries for $2.50 Hereabouts, seniors (60+) get a free bus pass, valid throughout Scotland for off-peak travel. Plus concessions on the trains, not free-- but near as dammit. Don't know about ferries... I'm kinda looking forward to getting my bus pass in what, a year and a bit. No doubt that loophole'll get revised any minute, given we here can't draw down our 'pension investment' and expected to work till we're 67...so free bus to work's about as good as it gets.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2014 19:05:03 GMT -1
Oh, guess what. Firstbus Customer Service emailed back to say that giving them all the ticket details, where and when found etc, and marrying them up with anyone looking for said lost ticket is just not possible. I'd offered my moby no so the person could contact me direct. They decree I should hand in the ticket to their Lost Property depot in Caledonia Road. Which is a 10 mile round trip from my house. Or a 4 mile round trip from my work in City Centre--- in the wrong direction, even if I *could* take time off work to go hand it in. No doubt, on reflection, it's not in Firstbus's interests to reunite ticket with person who's paid upfront. They'll know person will buy another..... Furious and scunnered, me. Considering embarrassing Firstbus on Twitter. But would likely lead to me getting harangued by chancers trying to claim the bloody ticket and I'd have to field it to find if any are genuine. That's it. I'm keeping the thing, and giving it full use till it expires. Will donate to foodbank in area it was bought. |
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Post by ozneil on Dec 16, 2014 19:28:07 GMT -1
good girl that best
Here I would have handed it to driver and he would have handed it in if Plan A had failed.
Sometimes these people forget that they are there to serve the public. They need reminding
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Post by ozneil on Dec 16, 2014 19:52:22 GMT -1
difference in attitudes
A kid at a local school was going to be confined to a wheelchair for yonks but wanted to try and be as normal as possible and go to and from school by bus like his mates. His mum phoned up bus depot to ask them if it was possible to have a wheelchair accessible bus on his route. Not only did the bus people agree but they sent a bus up to the school at lunch time so he could practice getting on and off without the crowds.
It was a Government Bus
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2014 22:09:34 GMT -1
difference in attitudes A kid at a local school was going to be confined to a wheelchair for yonks but wanted to try and be as normal as possible and go to and from school by bus like his mates. His mum phoned up bus depot to ask them if it was possible to have a wheelchair accessible bus on his route. Not only did the bus people agree but they sent a bus up to the school at lunch time so he could practice getting on and off without the crowds. It was a Government Bus Well, that's good behaviour, isn't it? In Glasgow, most buses are low-rise and pavements have been raised at stops to assist those in wheelchairs, or of limited mobility-- and parents with buggies. So far, so good. And not before time. Except.........there was a right stushie down in England only last week whereby a parent with buggy refused to give way to a person in a wheelchair. The driver refused access to the wheelchair person because the buggy person got all uppity. The story led to all manner of discussion on phone-in radio programmes about who *should* take priority. It's a whole new issue, really. And it's fucking NONSENSE! Partly caused by buggies now being status symbols, the bigger the better, apparently-- and don't those parents just KNOW their rights... Back in the day, I had a folding buggy for the wean, hardly rocket science but it worked.. It didn't have to have big eff-off mega-F1-wheels, nor did it have to turn into a car-seat, travel cot or highchair. It didn't cost a designerish £1000, it was about £20, yet miraculously----- it WORKED You simply took the wean out of it as the bus approached, balanced her on hip, folded buggy with one hand and got on the fecking bus In cafes you did the same, leaving room for everyone to just, you know, be able to find a space. But now, entitled parents everywhere give it rigid impasse. Many cafes now have posters on the door saying, "Maximum 6 buggies" or whatever. If only could be enforced on pavements...they shove the things right at you on the pavement by way of intimidation: "Get out of my way, I have a precious CHILD on board". To be honest, it's not often you encounter a wheelchair user with the same getouttamaway attitude and, some might say, ARE actually more entitled of consideration. But call me old-fashioned  |
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Post by ozneil on Dec 16, 2014 22:58:25 GMT -1
here the "wheel chair" buses have a sliding gangway that connects the bus with the pavement controlled by the driver and with special fold up seats to give wheelchair a secure position.
Most strollers (buggies) seem to be the folding type as you described and always with a male passenger or the driver willing to fold it and put it in the rack at the front for you (where the Xmas tree is in the photo of the xmas bus. Or in my case given Bub to hold while mum works the intricacies of folding the stroller which are beyond the ken of a mere male .
In Auckland many may moons ago they used to have hooks on the front of the trolley buses to hang strollers on
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Post by notanimby on Dec 17, 2014 18:43:24 GMT -1
Whitsa bus fur?
I've heard of them obviously but................
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Post by ozneil on Dec 17, 2014 23:35:39 GMT -1
How can I do thumbs up at least twice for the above???
Brilliant Nota
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Post by notanimby on Dec 18, 2014 5:14:20 GMT -1
here the "wheel chair" buses have a sliding gangway that connects the bus with the pavement controlled by the driver and with special fold up seats to give wheelchair a secure position. Most strollers (buggies) seem to be the folding type as you described and always with a male passenger or the driver willing to fold it and put it in the rack at the front for you (where the Xmas tree is in the photo of the xmas bus. Or in my case given Bub to hold while mum works the intricacies of folding the stroller which are beyond the ken of a mere male . In Auckland many may moons ago they used to have hooks on the front of the trolley buses to hang strollers on Ah remember the days when they were just called push-chairs or jist ra wee pram |
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