The recent disturbances in Margate which followed closing ime in
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the local pubs should make coach operators sit up and hink. Is it really worth taking a party on a drinking expedition for E75 on an all-day 200-mile hire? I think not.
The same day as coach passengers were -fighting" their way tome from Margate, I was on a trip to the same coast -15 niles away. All the way down the A2, there were coaches in very lay`-by just 20 miles from London. The passengers were Jsing the grass verges as public toilets or public bars or both at he same time. And that was at 10am
Is it any wonder that, 12 hours later, they are fighting mad, iandalising coaches, abusing drivers and using the coach as a oilet or sick bag? One coach driver I spoke to summed it up. 'We're all mad for letting them do it, the boss for allowing it and rie for sitting here wondering hoW or even if I'll get home."
And that for 35p a mile,