AIBU, DS forced to stand on the bus?

[TheFlandersPigeonMurderer]

First day back to school today and lo and behold, we have a new bus service.
To cut a long and boring story short, instead of two buses going on different routes from A to B, now there's one bus with a smaller minibus scooping up the odd few DC's from the outlying farms etc. This would make sense if the bus had capacity for all the children who need to use it. Today DS said there was only a handful of seats left (we're now almost the last stop) and the middle years at school don't return till tomorrow.
AIBU to think that all the children should have a seat?
Having grown up in London I'm no stranger to having to stand on buses, trains and tubes but this bus travels along windy country lanes (sections of which are national speed limit) before having to cross the main A road through the town. As a one off I guess it's unavoidable, on a daily basis I'm not sure if I'm being precious?

Sounds wrong to me

btw your username is brilliant - please tell me there's a story?

How did today go?
Enough seats?

If a child is stood in the aisle and the bus crashes at speed into something front first, the child will go through the windscreen with nothing to stop them. This is a problem even on city centre buses that max out at 30mph.

I live in a rural area,very narrow country roads,you have to be very aware of the potential for a milk tanker,tractor or even livestock to suddenly appear around a bend .My 2nd DC wilk be moving up to secondary school next year and no way would I be letting them stand ,the risk is too high and my eyes not acceptable .

How did it go today?

Well.. the scandal deepens
Apparently everyone did have a seat today but some DC had been refused travel because they aren't approved for the bus
(DS is a massive stickler for rules and his moral outrage that anyone should try and swing illicit bus transport has been by far and away the high point of my day )
So no harm done apart from DS having to sit next to a year 5 girl but thanks for the info anyway.

so there's no story behind your username?

Glad you DS can be seated.

I'm glad your DS had a seat today but also slightly dissapointed as it makes for a dull thread. 😂

slimthistime it's a Blackadder episode from the First World War series, and words alone cannot do it justice.

You need to watch all of Blackadder- the Great War, immediately!

Exactly tara, I hope slim isn't reading this because she's actually binge watching Blackadder goes Forth

Most buses and coaches are speed capped somewhere well below 60mph, but if some drivers could go faster, they would!

And the momentum transferred, even when a bus stops at fairly low speeds is immense.

Ah, thanks! It's one of the shows that's been on the watch list for a decade! I will get to it as I feel like there's no good comedy on at the moment.

And the momentum transferred, even when a bus stops at fairly low speeds is immense.

Not really relevant/incorrect.

The momentum transferred from the bus to the thing the bus is using to slow down (the ground during braking, or the object it's crashing in to when crashing) is of course large, but does not affect the passengers.

The deceleration experienced by the children when changing from 30mph to 0mph in (say) 10 seconds is precisely the same if they're on a bike, in a car or in a bus decelerating at the same rate.

And in fact in a crash, the large mass of the bus might actually help the passengers by resulting in the bus decelerating less quickly when crashing into a moving object like a car.