Goodness! Sounds like more bus driver training is in order for that guy. The first experience is certainly a good one though.

Wow! Why on earth would a driver listen to a passenger, and why would a passenger be so presumptuous as to tell a bus driver what to do? Except of course if that passenger was a man telling a female how and where to drive and trying to exert influence. Geez! Yeah, I hope the driver learned a valuable lesson and let’s hope she gets another chance to do better.

We have new drivers all the time and it's not unusual for us to say, you missed a turn/stop! Or my favorite, STOP requested! When someone pulls the cord and the driver doesn't stop

We tend to look out for the regulars. Hope she learned that one too ;)

My experience with bus drivers and passengers is that women are more likely to tell male bus drivers what to do than vice versa. At least that's what I experiences in San Francisco, where I rode the bus almost every day. I never noticed a man telling a female bus driver what to do, but things may be different in San Francisco. I'm speaking from personal experience - not conjecture, but I have noticed that men on the East Coast behave differently than men on the West Coast.

That said, I've been mugged twice on buses in San Francisco. Once I had my wallet stolen from my pocket and once I had vintage sunglasses stolen off my face.

In New York, a woman complained when I sat next to her on the subway saying that she didn't want to catch AIDS from me. I'm negative, and so I don't know why she would act that way, but others on the train chastised her for me, although I remained silent.

I would just be happy to have better bus service in this town. We have a lot of distribution centers in the area, but if one has to rely on the bus system to get to them (since the pay is low, not all employees could afford a car) one has to plan on 1) an hour to nearly 2 hour ride, with at least one transfer and hope that the connection didn't arrive early 2) having to walk up to a mile to get from the last stop to the d.c. . A few of them are situated well out of the metro area as well, so no public transportation at all -- smh.

Even to get to a job in town by bus can be not so easy.. For example, if I wanted to get to a job at the new Ikea, I could take a bus to within 1/2 mile, but then would have to walk that 1/2 mile along a busy road without any sidewalks. Same for a job at the airport.

raee, that's how it is here. We'll get up to speed. Getting there, but not yet

Lars, I'm speechless. I'm so so sorry. You deserve better.

Bus service is horrible in L.A., but they will be opening a new Metro station close to my house in the next few months (It was originally supposed to open Nov 2018), and that will be an improvement. I lived near good bus lines in Venice and could easily take a bus to Culver City from my house there, and occasionally we would take the Venice bus downtown, especially to go to a festival where parking might be difficult. I would never take the bus anywhere that I would have to transfer to another bus, however. The Metro station by my house will take us to the airport (which is the very next stop), but it's cheap enough to get to the airport from my house anyway - generally about $11.00 via Lyft or Uber.

Rob, I was speechless too, which is why I didn't say anything to her.

Is the bus service line one of those flex services that you contact the bus company and ask to be picked up at one location not on a scheduled route? We have several parallel zone routes in this section of the city. They all meet at designated stops on the border of each so if you are going into another zone you can connect to a bus in that zone. All are north south zones but it would be nice if there were a few east west ones. The run all day vs. the scheduled routes that either run only during rush hour last run reaching down town at 8am or the ones that run once an hour. If it is like our zone routes the driver may have been following the GPS to the next pickup because that is what they are trained to do.

Lars so sorry you experienced that. Shame on that woman.

Lars I agree shame on her!

Turn by turn, we got the driver there today. Every turn! If we could get one to learn the ropes, maybe they could stay. Too cold for bus riding, so I hope my car is fixed this evening. Love my bro, but I'm ready!

Years ago on a bus trip from Dover, England to London it was the first time the driver was driving the weekend route which is different from the same buses route during the week. He missed a turn at a small village, and was so informed by the passengers, so he took the next turn, and ended up going down a narrow country lane where shrubs on both sides of the street were rubbing along the sides of the bus. He picked up a passenger on the next block, who was bewildered since the bus was going the wrong direction on that section of road. The bus driver went just a little further, and turned around in the large driveway between the farm and the house of a local farm, which had the farmer literally pointing and laughing.

The passenger that was just picked up rode in the front seat and helped make sure that the driver made all the right turns and stops for the rest of the trip.

Bob, Good to know people are the same the world over!

The Miata is back in the garage, so I am done with adventures. For now.

We were visiting our DD in another city, where we almost always use public transport to get around. Usually from DD’s place we take a light train into town as it is the most convenient option.

One day when we were returning to DD’s place from town, we were informed at the platform that the light rail had some issue or other, and buses would be provided to replace the service. The bus provided came from a tour bus company as opposed to the buses branch of the overarching (government run) public transport network.

As it turned out, the driver only had the vaguest idea of where he was going, and for the beginning followed the road which ran alongside the light train track. About halfway though, the two diverged and it became apparent the driver was lost. So different passengers ended up calling out directions to the driver and we were all killing ourselves laughing at the absurdity of it all by the time we got to DD’s place.