Comment by ipdashc

15 hours ago

> and why there is a cable to pull, but that's a different thing

Huh... How is it set up where you live? I've ridden buses in Europe and I remember them having cables, or at least buttons.

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rsynnott  14 hours ago

It's usually buttons in Europe. The cord things always make me think of train emergency stop cords (though these days those are usually "break glass" buttons).

bojan  15 hours ago

It's different per country, and even per city within the country. As a rule of thumb, big cities don't have buttons/cords, smaller ones do.

  • ragall  14 hours ago

    I've never seen cords in Europe, neither in a big city nor little towns.

    • riffraff  2 hours ago

      I remember cords in Malta in the 2010s, but I've not seen them in the the rest of Europe. Maybe when I was a kid in the 80s.

Symbiote  14 hours ago

I've never seen the pull-cord things in Europe, but they seem to be common in the US.

To European eyes they seem old fashioned, untidy, and possibly dirty.

  • dghlsakjg  14 hours ago

    Can you clarify what you mean by dirty? Or why that would be any more dirty than anything else in public? European buses frequently have stop buttons, not sure how those would be any cleaner than a plastic covered cord.

    Also not sure what is old-fashioned about a pull cord compared to a bunch of buttons. Just a different way of activating an electrical circuit.