I asked a bus passenger to turn his phone down

A sunny Saturday in August and the bus in which Rachel continues in Sussex is almost empty. There are only three passengers on the lower deck.

But even though it is empty, the bus is not quiet – because someone is watching the rugbi without headphones.

When Rachel asks the passenger to turn his phone back, he distracts him, calls him “the most miserable bus driver I’ve ever met throughout my life,” and gets off the bus in a huff.

“He was that [acting] Like a 10 -year -old little boy, Rac Rachel says, who we’ve changed to protect.

Music, tiktok videos and Instagram reel, from exploding, to have video calls on the speaker phone, some people with public transport in the UK says they are tired of noisy passengers.

In a survey conducted in 2,015 Britain in August, the research and consultancy said that non -profit organizations are more common, 93% of them do not think that it is acceptable to play music loud on a train.

Northern Rail can be a pain for the staff with the staff list As one of the worst passenger habits.

London for London (TFL) now Trying to push back against this behavior Posters and tube passengers call on buses to use headphones while listening to music or video.

The BBC spoke to passengers about his experiences with noisy neighbors in public transport – and they didn’t think that exhibiting a poster went forward enough.

Alessia Forzinetti and their two children buy buses almost every day to travel at Kingston on Thames during summer holidays.

He thinks that every journey he receives explodes the sound of at least one person’s phones.

“This happens every time,” says the 43 -year -old boy, “really, really frustrating.”

Alessia, who is disappointed by the noise, says that he sometimes resorts to descending from the bus and waiting for the next – especially when people listen to music with open words and travel with their children.

He’s not sure they want them to turn the sound back.

When people make phone calls on the bus loudly “very, very disturbing”, Sayanti mulberry, 42.

“Sometimes it is quite embarrassing to listen to someone’s special speech with all personal information, or he says.

“I wish I couldn’t hear it, but it is impossible not to hear in such a limited area.”

This includes a new bus journey of a passenger who complains about Sayanti’s mother -in -law.

“A small thought can come a long way,” he says.

Sometimes other people’s music is so noisy on buses and trains that Kathleen Walsh in Greater Manchester can hear it with his own headphones.

73 -year -old player, “just directing me around the bend,” he says.

For him, an insect is that parents bring a telephone or another device for their children, “and they flutter.”

There is already some legislation aimed at preventing noisy behaviors. This is about a Turk Railways England, Wales and Scotland and TFL Services that prohibit people from making out loud sound from a phone on the train and tube.

There is also arrangements In the UK, in Wales and Scotland, drivers and police officers allow one passengers to remove other passengers from a bus or coach to make a “discomfort” noise.

A TFL spokesman tells the BBC that passengers who refuse to comply with the personnel and refuse to violate the regulation or bus and ram arrangements can be tried and fined up to £ 1,000.

“Usually the customer sleeps, but if this fails, the enforcement officers can reject the trip, remove the network and/or guide for prosecution.”

In 2024, no passengers were tried under Tfl Bylaw on his network.

Other transportation operators deterd noisy passengers in their services.

While the transportation for Greater Manchester says that the personnel in the bus network will challenge passengers if necessary, if necessary, Merseyrail says that if a situation increases, it is very rare about noise complaints.

Avanti West Coast, Great Western Railway and some train operators, such as Lner, also have quiet cars.

Bus driver Rachel says noisy behavior can be extremely destructive when driving.

“There is enough in front of me, or he says. “I have to concentrate, not what’s behind me in the bus.”

“If I bother me too, then everyone should be annoying,” he adds.

Rachel says that such behaviors are “normalized”.

“This is very disgusting,” he says, Connor James, who lives in East London and listens to music in public transportation vehicles.

He thinks that the problem is worse in cities where you may not worry about disturbing other passengers.

“Maybe they don’t have much awareness,” he adds 32 -year -old.

Posters inviting passengers to use headphones are now added to the Elizabeth line and will appear in other TFL services from autumn.

He adopted a similar approach to the sexual harassment campaign. posters About behaviors such as looking at TFL’s network in 2021, touching and calling for cats.

Other transportation operators think how they deal with such behaviors in their networks.

C2C running trains in the east of England, “Welcome[s] Discussions on Improving Passenger Etiquette and Reducing Destructive Behavior “.

In the meantime, for Wales, Transport, “respectful and careful behavior to encourage new customer messages,” he said.

Brighton & Hove Buses also says that “how we encourage passengers to be more thoughtful when traveling to our buses”.

Passengers told BBC that they welcomed the decision to add posters about the noise of discomfort.

But some are skeptical that posters and relevant social media campaign will be enough to change people’s behavior.

Rachel accepts and says that passengers often feel comfortable to ask other people to turn their voices back. He thinks that more personnel are needed in public transport to condemn noisy passengers.

“I don’t think people who do this feel any guilt and responsibility, R Rachel says.