Teenage girls made bus journey very unpleasant

1:30pm Thursday 20th November 2008

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I have just spent a very unpleasant half hour in the company of half a dozen young teenage girls from Elton High School.

They boarded the 510 Bury to Bolton bus at 4.15pm on Friday November 14 at the stop up the hill from the school and immediately proceded to run up and down the stairs and aisles and climb on the luggage rack.

One girl ensconced herself in the luggage compartment under the stairs.

And all this accompanied by loud and unruly shouting.

They were obviously oblivious to the feelings of the passengers around them, some their own fellow pupils.

The transport authorities are, quite rightly, trying to get more people to use public transport but while these badly behaved and unruly children run amok without any accountability I fear many people, myself included, will be reluctant to do so.

I am also certain this behaviour is not unusual on this route when school is out.

My sympathy firmly rests with the drivers and other passengers who have to put up with it.

What can be done? Would the staff of Elton High care to comment? Or perhaps the children themselves? They know who they are.

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