The EU comes up with the crazy rules and we are stupid enough to follow them.
Bus passengers who travel along a route of more than 30 miles must get off the vehicle midway through their journey to comply with new EU laws.
The Brussels ruling dictates that drivers must pull over and let everyone off their bus after 30 miles, to ensure they do not spend too long behind the wheel.
Western Greyhound, a bus company operating in rural Devon and Cornwall, is among those affected.
Its Newquay to Plymouth route has been split in three, even though a single driver is used for the entire distance.
The driver is obliged to pull over and ask everyone to get off before the route number on the front of the vehicle is changed, and all the passengers are invited back on board...
Passengers have been told they must buy three tickets to complete the route, and they must also break their journey twice.
Western Greyhound managing director Mark Howarth said: “It’s a farce. We have to kick customers off as soon as the driver hits the 30-mile limit.
“Often it’s in the middle of nowhere. The passengers think we are crazy.
“We’re caught up in something aimed at long-distance truckers.”
Liberal Democrat transport spokesman Norman Baker has written to Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly asking that bus companies are able to opt-out of the law.
He said: “These rules don’t stop buses running more than 30 miles.
“All they do is inconvenience the passengers who have to keep getting on and off. It’s like an Ealing comedy.”
Long-distance coach journeys are exempt from the law.No comment needed, other than it is high time we left the EU.
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Who comes up with dumbass laws like that? Hell, I've driven further than that across town to go to work, and I didn't have to stop and get out.
Ruth Kelly - say no more.
As the grand daughter of I.R.A. batlalion quatermaster Philip Murphy;
And I think it is important that I mention this fact, every time her odious name comes to light;
Perhaps this is her new found way of, not only screwing Gran-daddys mortal enemy, but also introducing new "big brother" in style, check-points, so that her "stazi" government can roll their "eye" over "citizens papers", at regular intervals......
Europe comes up with the rules, the rest of the EU ignore them whilst we here in the UK, employ armies of small cock'd pen pushers who would have loved to be a member of the SS to enforce them...
I could imagine if this rule was out 40 years ago, the On of the Buses sitcom would have a field day with it
You could imagine Jack Harper driving the 'local' 30 miles and conveniently stopping at some house where the housewife invites him in for a cup of tea and a bit of hows your father.
All seriously though, this government is making the UK the laughing stock of the civilised world.
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