In the buses of the USA and Canada, there are no fundamental differences with public transport in Europe and on the territory of the countries of the former Soviet Union. However, tourists and immigrants notice an interesting detail in American buses - a mysterious yellow rope stretched along the window and passenger seats.
As you know, public transport operates according to the schedule. Of course, traffic jams, bad weather and other circumstances can "make adjustments" to the order of movement of buses, trolleybuses and trams. In the domestic open spaces, the schedules are respected, although not as strictly as in some other countries. So, in the USA and Canada, public transport drivers are required to comply with the timetable much more accurately than ours. This detail entailed an interesting feature: in the USA and Canada, buses do not stop at every stop if there are no people on them.
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This raises another question: how can passengers be in such a situation if their stop can simply be passed by? First, you need to remember that even in domestic buses there is a Stop button to request an emergency stop. Of course, the button does not slow down the bus at all, but only informs the driver that something has happened in the cabin. All this brings us to the answer to the question of why there are ropes hung along the passenger seats in public transport in Canada and the United States.
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These ropes are the "Stop" button, with the only difference that they are used constantly, and not only in emergency situations. So, if a passenger needs to get off the bus at the next stop, he simply pulls on the rope and makes the driver understand that he needs to stop, even if there is no one standing at the site of the point.
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