Surprisingly, yes. They generally do.
Though I have seen many large buses in the ditches here, for no other reason than the drivers were taking the very sharp curves much much much too fast. Fortunately, I myself have never been riding on a ditched bus (not to say the drivers I’ve had driving are responsible… probably a better word for them would be… lucky).
The other day (actually it wasn’t the other day, but probably a month ago now, but recent events seem more exciting to me so I say ‘the other day’)… so the other day, Steve and I needed to travel the 2 hourish stretch of road from Berastagi to Medan, and we flagged down a bus. I was somewhat … afraid. But not so much so that I wasn’t thinking of you, my faithful reader (actually, I think there may be two of you now!!), so I took a video. That devilishly handsome man featured in the video is Steve, who you may have vague memories of, though he is too snobby to blog.
Script: Classic Indonesian Bus. Footage shows scuffy, broken seat, destroyed light fixture, cracked ceiling, which is caving in at the back. Broken seats. More broken seats, something indecipherable, broken seats (yes, the one I’m sitting on), and general shabbiness of bus.
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