Suff wrote:Well I have a reply for #1 Aggers, Coaches now have seatbelts but busses do not. .
Aggers, as a long-time West Midlands resident, you'll remember the Metrobuses which were the mainstay of the fleet back in the 1980 and 90's (?) and were built at Washwood Heath.
There was a small batch which were fitted to coach specification as "luxury" express buses and used on the Walsall > Birmingham service. These had mock leather seats, did have "lap" seat belts fitted, certainly in the lower saloon. I can recall travelling on one long after they had been declassified back to "ordinary" services, and the seat belts were certainly still fitted - not that I or anyone else used them.
Suff wrote:Why do people slow down for Green traffic lights? After all there is nothing more sure than if you slow down enough it WILL turn Red.
True, but it's to ensure you can stop if they start to change. Do they not have traffic light cameras up your way?
I did it all the time at the traffic-light controlled cross-roads just north of Erdington High Street which had d@mn Gatsos in both directions - probably long after they'd been decommissioned anyway ....
Approach to the lights was traditionally accompanied by the chanted mantra "Don't change, don't change, don't change, don't chan ..... ba%$£&^ds!"
