Um.
Steve White writes:
How do you maintain two metres social distancing when boarding, alighting and on board on a bus? as Dublin Bus says it wants you to do. I don’t believe its possible and Dublin Bus statement is corporate nonsense.
Anyone?
Introduction of Social Distancing Measures On-board (Dublin Bus)
Meanwhile…
Dublin Bus seating Yesterday.
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Jaysus it’s hardly rocket science Steve…
steve’s twitter into-thing says “If i ask a question don’t just fav or retweet, reply”
keep more than 2 metres away from him
He’s a good drummer, in fairness.
always preferred jimmy white
there’s a very good reason you don’t take health advice from drummers.
Hand washing techniques with Rick Alle…. maybe not.
This is ‘people who tag Broadsheet in stuff on Twitter’ all-over.
In fact, it’s just Twitter all-over.
I avoid it for this exact reason. Nonsense abounds.
it’s a cess pit
Yeah Steve, they’re guidelines. It’s really not that complicated. The aim is, if you have to use the bus, you should endeavour to keep a 2 metre distance between yourself and other passengers. That doesn’t mean, if you find yourself 1.2 metres away from someone for a few seconds, you’ll automatically be infected. Same goes for supermarkets. Hold your breath when you’re passing people. It’s all about minimizing the risk. And judging by any buses I’ve seen in the past week, it wouldn’t be difficult.
Imagine it’s a homeless person.
Use middle doors to get off?
A lot of times indoors it’s impossible too.
It’s all about minimising risk as much as possible.
Auld dears without masks yapping to the poor girl at the checkout a foot away while fishing for change and the clubcard is what’s annoying me.
My local shops that have them have restricted everyone to the self-service checkouts, with clear marking on the floors. Very sensible, especially given your point.
You stand back and wait. You stand 2 metres behind not to the side. The graphic is terrible as it shows people from the front and the gap proportionally is not 2 metres. People haven’t a clue how big two metres is. It approximately the width of a car including mirrors. If a car can’t fit between you then you’re not leaving enough room.
I see Britain has had a little bit of good news, the Eminence Grise has self isolated , he’s at least 2 mtrs from doing harm
I see over in Holland the recommended distance is only 1.5 metres. Our authorities must deem us a more infectious lot.
people in holland are a lot taller – among the tallest in the world, actually
so 1.5 metres there would be approx 1.91 metres here, so broadly consistent
That was quite funny. Unless you were being serious. In which case it’s quite worrying..
..or maybe we’re fatter?
silly me I forgot to factor in all the windmills which would help to blow the virus away a bit
Are Dublin bus’ seat pitch 1 metre apart I don’t think so I found one reference to it being 70cm, even if they blocking off alternate rows,or stagger them upstairs and measure the diagonal, how to you maintain 2 metres social distance?
seated in row 1: lean to the left
seated in row 3: lean to the right
seated in row 5: lean to the left
seated in row 7: lean to the right
seated in row 9: lean to the left
seated in row 11: lean to the right
and so on
How about you just use your cheesebox?
If each seat is 70cm then you go every 3rd row.
Simple maths.
There is even a picture of this at the top of the article.
and you are left with 4 seats downstairs
Yes. Now you have it!
I’m sensing Steve doesn’t get invited to many parties..
More attention seeking nonsense.