As a senior citizen and regular passenger on Discovery Bay’s bus routes to Tung Chung and Sunny Bay, I take very strong exception to Veronica Bennett’s letter (“Seating of children on public transport a matter of safety”, July 7).儲存Your correspondent was justifying children occupying seats on fully loaded buses to the exclusion of older passengers.This is a constant and annoying problem on these buses and must be resolved.As a recent example, I boarded an already fully seated off-peak bus at Tung Chung and by the time of departure there were 16 standees.Alongside me was a very elderly lady with a heavy shopping bag, while on adjacent seats were a father and mother with a small child alongside each.I suggested very politely to the parents that it might be a nice idea to place one of the children on a lap to allow the frail old lady to be seated.Unfortunately, my suggestion was met by a torrent of abuse and a total rejection which caused quite a commotion on the bus.I can quote other frequent examples where non-fare-paying children could quite 新蒲崗迷你倉easonably be accommodated on laps when elderly passengers are standing and where parents refuse to co-operate.When I was a child in the 1940s my parents drummed it into me that I must always give up my seat on a full bus or tram for a lady or senior citizen, and I still do.There was no pampering in those days with the thought that the bus might jerk and cause me to fall down in the aisle, because one of my parents would always hold tightly on to me.It seems to me there is a deplorable lack of courtesy and breeding in young parents these days and this is manifested all too often, particularly on the Discovery Bay buses.There is a fundamental issue on the Discovery Bay buses, however, which requires urgent attention and that is an increasing lack of capacity, which both the bus company and Transport Department need to address.There either has to be a more frequent service or, better still, larger capacity buses that provide seats for everyone and more adequate space for the other problem of aisle- obstructing push chairs.Lyndon Rees, Tung Chungmini storage
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