CRUISE CONTROL
Buses and bus travel overall might often traditionally have copped a bum rap, so just as well escapist holiday coach trips have needed to always be ahead of the game to counter that. A pleasurable and safe coach journey arguably does much to imbue a passenger’s experience with a certain finesse, embellishing the idea of ‘catching the bus’ with some much-needed hero status.
Well, that’s the theory, anyway. And while not all trips can be guaranteed to go according to plan – which might purely come down to some other annoying passenger’s smelly feet, foul mouth or general aural displeasure derived from their earphones’ blaring crap music (good stuff can be handled, though – rock on!) – bus product itself must do its bit to nullify any inter-passenger angst, and actually enhance the experience for as many passengers as possible. ‘Serenity now!’ you may say, as that hilarious final-series episode of Seinfeld enlightened us all with.
At the recent 2019 BusVic Expo and Exhibition, amongst the
