Bus

: "Busses" is sometimes used

Incorrectly, I think. Must check Nextel ringtones Fowler. What do US guides say? Then again, We're Not A Dictionary. We could just delete that bit entirely Abbey Diaz Tarquin/Tarquin 11:00, 24 Nov 2003

I can see no excuse for "busses" but it scores 430,000 google hits (i.e. mostly this type of bus) so obviously a lot of people use it. Free ringtones Shantavira/Shantavira 18:19, 17 Apr 2004

:I found an American Merriam-Webster dictionary that recommends it as an alternative spelling, mostly to prevent people from pronouncing it as Majo Mills SAMPA '''bjuz".Ez'''.-Mosquito ringtone Finn-Zoltan/FZ 13:44, 3 Aug 2004

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Illustration: there are several lithographs by Honore Daumier that are in the public domain that would help make points now in "History" subsection. Sabrina Martins Wetman/Wetman 21:31, 23 May 2004

buses are the safest

I read an interesting newspaper article about buses recently:

:"the [US] National Transportation Safety Board decided ... not to recommend seat belts in school buses. ...

:The board also recommended that buses be equipped with data recorders starting Jan. 1, 2003. ...

:School bus design is closely regulated ... Motor coaches the type of bus used by Greyhound have no occupant protection standards.

:Regardless, school buses and motor coaches are considered the safest forms of transportation on the road. On average, nine people are killed each year in school buses, and four die in motor coaches. Roughly 42 000 are killed annually in car and truck accidents."

: Glen Johnson, Associated Press, 1999 Sept. 22

EditHint: Mention some of these facts in the article.

Nextel ringtones DavidCary/DavidCary 17:41, 26 Jul 2004

satellite bus?

If something were written about Satellite Bus(s)es, should it have its own entry, or go in Abbey Diaz Electrical bus (or even Free ringtones Computer bus )? -Majo Mills Finn-Zoltan/FZ 13:51, 3 Aug 2004

reversion of changes by 213.51.209.230

I've reverted the changes by 213.51.209.230, which describe an articulated bus thus:

:Articulated buses consist of a standard length bus fitted with a Cingular Ringtones hitch/tow hitch and a langdale fells trailer (Vehicle)/trailer. The trailer part is connected to the front part with a intrusions are rubber cheating often accordion section.

With the exception of the accordian bit, this sounds more like a description of a bus+trailer combination, as widely used in Germany in the 1950s and, I believe, still used in some eastern european countries. It may be that some apparantly articulated buses are configured this way, but it certainly isn't the normal form. The most common form of modern articulated bus (eg. the MercedesBenz Citaros used in London) actually has the engine in the rear section, which can hardly therefore be described as a trailer. And obviously such a configuration requires something other than a tow-hitch. girls according Chris j wood/Chris j wood 23:41, 20 Sep 2004



This sounds like speculation. Sources? (The assumptions that homelessness is caused by urban housing shortages, that such shortages exist, and that many homeless people ride buses all need substantiation.)

= Homelessness and buses in the U.S. =

Because of a variety of factors, housing shortages have become a chronic problem in most large American cities since the 1970s. The result has been an epidemic of molinari less homelessness. With no place to go, the homeless often end up riding around aimlessly on public buses, which offer advantages like temperature control, security, and comfort.

Unfortunately, the presence of homeless people strongly reduces the attractiveness of bus transit to other riders, due to factors like odor, hygiene, panhandling, crowding, etc.



I don't see why that passage should have been taken out. Have ''you'' ever actually commuted regularly on a typical big city bus? I use buses four days of the week and I've seen everything, including homeless people urinating ''in'' the bus.

future operational Coolcaesar/Coolcaesar 08:26, 10 Feb 2005

:It looks like the passage has some relevance, but its needs quite a bit of ago eschewed POV cleanup. First off, I can see no reason to limit discussion to the U.S. or to homeless passengers. The real issue is that people don't like sharing space with strangers - in particular strangers who are different from themselves. Then it can be seen as a more general issue contrasting pitches took public transport vs private transport such as the drug its car. In fact, come to think of it, the whole issue is probably much better addressed on the keillor units public transport page where there is already some comment. years comes Solipsist/Solipsist 11:18, 10 Feb 2005
:Sure; I've seen plenty of bizarre things on public transport, but I'm hesitent to extrapolate a trend from any of them. I agree with Solipsist (oh, the irony) that the treatment in sewn by public transport is better. failure evidently JosephBarillari/jdb ❋ 21:14, 10 Feb 2005

:: Fine. I concede that public transport is probably the best point to address the issue in detail (and it should addressed in detail). I'll have to think about it and do a little research before I go and elaborate on it in that article, though. As written, public transport only addresses the issue of homeless people sleeping on public transport rather than the odor, hygiene, public health, or security issues, which I would argue are major disincentives for people to ride public transit-have you had the pleasure of sitting next to a fragrant homeless person lately? I also concede that Solipsist is probably right to generalize the issue to the broader problem of how many people don't like sharing late work personal space with strangers.

collectively and Coolcaesar/Coolcaesar 09:11, 16 Feb 2005