Even though someone using Alberta’s public transportation system does not drive the vehicle that he or she rides, the same person should still obey certain safety rules.
How to stay safe while traveling to a train or bus stop?
If you must reach a given destination at a specific time, make a point of learning the bus or the train’s schedule. In addition, make sure that your own schedule matches with the schedule that you must meet. In other words, do your best to avoid running, in order to catch a seat on the transportation vehicle that you have chosen to use.
Perhaps you should plan ahead, so that you know how you will be getting from your home to the bus or train stop. Make sure that you know how to avoid any spots where the city might have workers fixing a traffic light, the sidewalk or something that is located under the sidewalk.
Stand ready to be of assistance to those seated around you.
Keep an eye out for someone that is standing, when he or she should be sitting. Do you want to be the man that held his seat, while a pregnant woman stood next to him on the bus? This ghost writer saw that man, but she only knows the name of the woman who was then carrying a growing infant.
Normally, someone using a cell phone should try to speak in a low voice. Still, in the event of an emergency, anyone with a cell phone should feel free to speak loudly, when calling for assistance.
Be courteous at all times, even when exiting your chosen means of transportation.
Do not injure any of the men and women that are waiting to get on board the stopped vehicle. For example, if you were carrying a skateboard, do not throw it down on the sidewalk as you step down the steps of a bus. It might hit the toe of someone that plans to get on the bus that you just left.
There are apps that let a rider know when a given stop is approaching. Of course, that does not make it any easier to exit quickly, if you must transfer to another bus. Still, the existence of apps makes it obvious that every rider watch for the stop where he or she must get off. Watch for that stop, if you must stay seated until the bus is no longer moving? That is the question that a personal injury lawyer in Spruce Grove might be asking if a given client has fallen on the bus.