Bus driving isn't a career. It is a low-paid job that can be stressful. I've been in the industry on and off since 2001, and even in that relatively short space of time, I have seen many changes and not for the better. In 2001, I actually loved the job, but I don't nowadays. One of my senior colleagues whom has been in the industry since the eighties says the job has changed to the point where he dislikes it. Most people I work with hate the job because of the 13hr days and difficult passengers.
I don't agree with privatisation. I am a bus driver and often have a grim reminder that the operation is now seen merely as a business. I believe we still are a public service and do my best to help customers, but it's a shame profit and revenue seems to be the main focus. Long gone are the NBC days, thanks to Thatcher. Not. To look at something as a business and/ or a public service are two very different things.
What a sad reminder of a hare-brained policy: bus privatisation. "...carrying 0.5 million passengers a week is a major business operation." No it isn't. It's an important public service. "...these people are not just passengers--they are our customers." Correction: they are citizens, ratepayers, and members of the community. Their status as customers is profoundly unimportant. "...400 professional drivers...our salesmen." Ugh! Bring back Butler, Jack, and Blakey. Oh my Gawwd!
Aside from the eye roll inducing spiel about how amazing and utopian this privatisation garbage is, there were some good shots of Nationals here including a unicorn two door outside London at 2:40. The guy talking in a rather forced fashion doesn't mention that the government run services started out as little companies amalgamated fit the good of service delivery. So this is in fact a regressive regime.
@ThinkingWithPictures both songs are by Jan Hammer! the first being "Crockettes theme and the second is Miami Vice (New York theme) as for the time machine I can't help with that!
It was between Park St and Freshfield Rd down a small road, which now has a few houses built on the site it formerly occupied. It closed in the 1990s and was built on in the early 2000s, if I remember correctly.
@StephenHP62 well....... they kinda do have a point. i think you should change "no it isnt" to " ALSO and "correction" to ADDITION" cause without business and half a million passangers, there wouldnt even be a public service. and if they werent customers, they couldnt have been riding a bus.
