Bus driver behaviour — Time to use technology?

12.00.00am GMT Tue 10th Feb 2004

Our postbag is always heavy with complaints about bus driver behaviour ñ— for some reason Londoners never seem to find time to write in about how well theyíve been treated! Quite a lot of the complaints turn on the actual standard of driving, including speeding and violent braking. Passengers (especially the elderly) are thrown around ? made all the more likely with the design of modern low-floor accessible buses with their wide-open spaces. Cllr Laura Willoughby is now asking the question: should buses be equipped with speed limiters, and with modified brakes, so that Grand Prix standing starts and screeching to a halt become things of the past? Or would this create more dangers? What's your view?