I regularly travel on the buses in my area and quite frankly they are awful .We now live in a rural area and I miss good old London Transport .
In reply to your Q about bad manners !
I am of an age where I am drifting towards my bus pass and I find the inconsideration given to fellow passengers of all generations awful in the extreme.
i would not hestitate to move out the way for a young Mum with a buggy ..after all I have been there and know how difficult it is coping with young children on a bus . On the other hand I am very arthritic and find having to stand excrutiatingly painful .Although people cannot see the pain in my hips !
Bad manners seem to be the norm these days ..but ..what can you do about it !!
I was always taught to give up my seat for less able people and would still do so for an elderly person our young Mum But .. when I stand while some young man sits there chatting into his mobile phone then I get totally peed off.
It's just another example of the way things are in society today.Total intolerance to other people and me me me !