No Right to Eject Bus Passenger A BUS conductor has
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no right to Lt have ejected a passenger who boards the vehicle at traffic lights, according to the Marlborough Street, (London) magistrate.
" I take the view that a citizen has the right to get on a bus at traffic lights or whenever it is stationary. If he does so at his own risk, the conductor has no more right to tell him to get off than a dustman has."
The magistrate, Mr. Paul Bennett, V.C., made this comment in a case before him on Monday.
A spokesman for the London Transport Executive submitted that in getting on the bus at traffic lights, a passenger became a trespasser on the vehicle. A person could board a bus only at an authorized stop, he said.
The Ministry of Transport was uncertain, stated The Times, whether a wartime regulation forbidding passengers to board buses as they approached stopping places was still in force.
London Transport, however, stated that even if the regulation was still effective, "it does not mean we are not entitled ourselves to make rules for the safe carriage of our passengers. Common sense will continue to be used?'