Double deck buses are an "invasion of privacy"

reminds me of my miss spent youth in london of the 60's driving around with my mate in his m.g midget and trying to get on the inside lane just before the bus stop to watch the mini skirted and sometimes stockinged dolly birds coming down the open back steps of the buses .if you pulled up beside the platform deck the view was amazing :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
 
fabs said:
Some do obviously



I freely confess that I used to go upstairs on buses where possible because the view was nicer, nothing wrong with that. :)
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If you say so :-)
 
Me too.
You mentioned it :-)
Busses for me have only ever been for getting from a to b :-)
 
There is only one thing I can't understand. What on earth is that bus doing in the cul de sac? Should it not be on the main road minimising the agony and journey time to its passengers?
 
kennethwfd said:
the "issue" is not that of the driver but caused by passengers on the upper deck being able to see over fences and into windows. How this poses a threat to children and animals I am at a loss to understand as well

Apparently when these people moved in, they tried to make out the cl de sac was a private road as well
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Oh of course!

I assumed the OP's statement "Residents of a cul de sac in a certain town are objectig to the introduction of double deck busus stating such things as
Invasion of privacy
Invitation to burglars
Puts children and animals at risk"

Would imply something about the double-decker bus being dangerous for kids in the street, specially a cul de sac street, but I thought there's not much different between a double-decker and a single decker being a danger to children and animals, unless the residents are worried about a double-decker tripping over when attempting to make a sharp turn.

Still, if you're right, if it's nothing to do with how the driver drives a double-decker in a cul de sac, but the issue is about people on the top deck being a danger to kids, then I agree with you, and I second your option, how on earth are anyone on the top deck going to be a danger to children and animals?

There's no way you can open any of the top deck windows, so there's no chances of throwing stuff out of the windows, so the kids are safe. Even if you could open a window on the top deck of a double-decker and throw stuff out, I can understand that this puts children and animals at risk, but just children and animals? Surely we adults are at risk too?

I suppose if a football player accidently dropped the FA cup from an open top deck, yes children can get hurt, yes animals can get hurt, no adults just catch it and run off with it. :-)

Even if the residents are worried about hurricane winds blowing the double-decker over and into their gardens, surely same thing applies to trucks? But then again, the danger also applies to adults too. Beside, no self-respecting parent would let their kids out in strong winds, chances are the kids would be watching from their bedroom windows, see a double-decker blew over and smashed all those flowers in the back garden, and say "Cool! Now mummy can't tell me off for kicking my football at the flowers!" :-)
 
Major Eazy said:
There's no way you can open any of the top deck windows, so there's no chances of throwing stuff out of the windows, so the kids are safe. Even if you could open a window on the top deck of a double-decker and throw stuff out, I can understand that this puts children and animals at risk, but just children and animals? Surely we adults are at risk too?
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The windows on the top deck of the buses here are the same as the windows on the lower deck. The top 9" section can open. It is hinged at the bottom and opens inwards to allow air in.


Steve.
 
boliston said:
I guess if I regularly relaxed in the nude in my back garden I might feel self conscious perhaps, but otherwise I'm not sure I'd really care particularly.
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If you or I did that, we would be guilty of flashing but if we saw a lady doing the same, we would be guilty of peeping...

viv1969 said:
Well come on.
You rode the top of the bus for the view???
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When I used to travel by bus (on double deckers) I always rode on the top deck since that's where we were allowed to smoke. IF I were to ride on a double decker these days, I would ride on the top floor for the views. Unlikely to happen - I hate bus travel!
 
To make things clear, which is what the newspaper article does, is that the buses use the main road. A stage carriage bus service (picking up/setting down passengers en route cannot just use any road. It needs authority to divert and the road in question must also be passed to allow buses to use it

Houses on one side of the cul de sac back onto the main road ie the fence to the rear of their garden divides them from the main road. Particularly as there is a bus stop outside, the residents of the cul de sac are making the aforesaid complaints which to me do not have any supporting evidence and more probably stem from paranoia regarding burglars and paedophiles ( on the basis of "children put at risk") and NIMBYism

As many state in response to the Mail's article "get net curtains and get a life"

My home town of Lymington has drawn attention for silmilar reasons. When Woolworths closed, Argos showed an interest and immediately Disgruntled Shop Owner complained that an Argos store was inappropriate for the town and better suited to neighbouring Pennington. Amoungst correspondance was a delightfully witty letter regarding the obvious need to seperate the two towns while still ensring that the good folks of Lymington would continue to receive deliveries of coal and milk

The town has a Saturday street market and another of these snooty women complained that smeels coming from the butcher's stall were offensive to her customers, would the stall be moved elsewhere

I like the contributor to the Daily Mail who recouned moving into a house in London. They were so tired arriving after dark that they simply fell into bed. When they awoke a bus was stopped right outside. So she put her head under the duvet, waited for the bus to depart and hung a sheet over the window

I suppose if these NIMBY's get their own way the students will have to start using cars owing to lack of bus capacity, then there wll be complaints regarding traffic congestion....
 
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I grew up in a house where our garden backed into the A6 - a pretty busy road. Sometimes I'd wave at the passengers on the top deck and they'd usually wave back.
These residents need to get a life. In fact, people like them are half the reason I moved to London to avoid the hell on earth that is the British rural town.
 
It's very similar to those how buy a house beside the car park for a supermarket that was built 20 years before they bought the house - and then they complain about delivery lorries !!
 
camerassassin said:
It's very similar to those how buy a house beside the car park for a supermarket that was built 20 years before they bought the house - and then they complain about delivery lorries !!
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Our shop perfect example of this, built in the 50s way before a housing estate sprung up around it, whose residents do nothing but bitch and whine about deliveries etc. A guy from across the road came over and had a massive rant about the new Costa cup outside (you know the ones about 4 foot tall to advertsie the machine inside) which is on the shop car park because he didn't want to be looking at it from his window...:thinking:
 
camerassassin said:
It's very similar to those how buy a house beside the car park for a supermarket that was built 20 years before they bought the house - and then they complain about delivery lorries !!
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It's no the same, the double decker buses were introduced after. It's more akin to you buying a house with a fantastic view only for someone to come along years later and build something that means you no longer have that fantastic view and could lower the value of your property as it no longer has that fantastic selling point.
 
I live in a similar cul de sac where our garden backs onto a road. Fortunately the road just a bigger cul de sac and there's no through traffic. Even if the road is modified to be wide enough for buses, I still don't see any issue having double deckers driving past my back garden.

In fact, that would mean I can drive to and from my house faster :D


My neighborhood had a partition in place to implement 20mph speed limit, with complains directed at home delivery drivers. Naturally I declined to sign and suggested removing the speed bumps :p
 
wuyanxu said:
In fact, that would mean I can drive to and from my house faster :D

My neighborhood had a partition in place to implement 20mph speed limit, with complains directed at home delivery drivers. Naturally I declined to sign and suggested removing the speed bumps :p
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Presumably small children also live in the vicinity ?
 
nilagin said:
It's more akin to you buying a house with a fantastic view only for someone to come along years later and build something that means you no longer have that fantastic view and could lower the value of your property as it no longer has that fantastic selling point.
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That's hard luck though. You have a right to light but not to a view.


Steve.
 
Steve Smith said:
That's hard luck though. You have a right to light but not to a view.


Steve.
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But my point was if something is changed which could be taken as for worse rather than better, after you have moved in you have reason for complaint, as opposed to complaining about something that was already there when you moved in, as in the post I quoted. The people who bought the houses will most likely have found that although there is a bus route at the back of their houses, they were single decker buses, so won't be overlooking their privacy. Now double decker buses have been introduced they have reasonable cause for complaint.
 
Many years ago, a colleague informed me his other half was able to see into my kitchen from their flat - I was on the 13th floor and they were on the 12th floor about 400 yrds away....

I stopped wandering into the kitchen stark b****ck naked after a shower after that..:eek::eek::naughty:
 
Blank_Canvas said:
Presumably small children also live in the vicinity ?
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What makes the parents think small children can play on a road? End of the day, a closed road is still a road.

This is just enforcing nanny state, and removing the need for common sense. Just like OP's article where common sense would say a busy bus router WILL have double decker bus sooner or later.
 
Eek! I know that road - I used to live about mile from there. They are presumably already overlooked by their neighbours, so probably not in the habit of running naked in the garden, and I really can't see any other cause to object that a pair of net curtains wouldn't sort.

And if the houses there average £300K they have been overcharged!
 
Steve Smith said:
They don't because it's also reasonable for a bus, or any vehicle to use that road.


Steve.
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Don't know about where you live, but around here, back gardens are private and only over looked partially by neighbours windows. Even side windows in houses have frosted glass so your neighbour can have privacy in his own garden. Back gardens are not overlooked by public on buses. I'd be fairly cheesed off if the same happened to me.
 
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