Are there any other people with autism who find bus's hard?

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I can't really take buses or "L" trains on my own but I can take Metra and Amtrak trains on my own sometimes.

Unfortunately, I have to take buses most places. I don't hate buses or trains as such, in fact I love the noises buses and trains make. Its the other passengers who I can't tolerate. They come on and they are either listening to MP3 players so loudly that the whole bus can hear or talking on their mobile phones really REALLY loudly. The worst time was when someone started talking REALLY LOUDLY about their bowel movements on a mobile phone I just thought, 'dude what the hell!? I don't want to know!'

So basically I would be happy if I had the whole bus/train to myself (that only happened once )

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

I find trains not so bad after a while, I usually just play with my phone or read a paper. I don't know anyone who likes travelling by bus.

Gosh no! my special interests are specifically buses and trains. in fact, on my next day off, im hopping the Greyhound to probably Boston, six/seven hour trip one way.

I can only travel by bus or train if I have my husband with me, and can hold his hand in a vice-like grip while the panic surges through me. I have to battle against the urge to distract myself by 'stimming' (it doesn't look good, and attracts unwanted attention if I rock/flap my hands/run my hands through my hair repeatedly in public!). I've learned to cope with many of the sensory situations which tortured me throughout childhood; bizarrely I could cope with public transport in my childhood, teens and young adulthood (travelling long distances alone) but have found it increasingly difficult the older I get. If a bus stops for any length of time without the engine being switched off and I have to sit with the rumbling hum reverberating through my body I feel desperate with anxiety.

Personally, I really like public transport - buses & trains.

I didn't think it was a special interest of mine, but it seems like it might be - I definitely know more than the average person about companies, routes, tickets etc and love it when I am asked to help someone plan a journey (this actually happens more often than one would expect). Of course, I always provide more information than they need to know!

If the bus/train is busy, I'll always take an aisle seat in case I need to get off quickly due to too much noise etc.
If it is a little quieter, I'll take a window seat and rest my head on the window because I like the effect.

I regularly do 7 or 8 hour train rides, and even 12 hour coach trips - always with a reason though; I mean I'm trying to get somewhere for a particular reason at the end of the journey.

Buses in my city are rather expensive so I rarely ride them just for fun; but I probably would on occasion if I had enough money.

I dont take buses as i hate them (not asperger) they are slow, they smell, and creepy people are on them

I do however take commuter rail even during rush hour, now subways i hate subways during rush hour no ROOM!! ! I hate the downtown stations (state st and downtown crossing) other than that subways are ok for me.

Yes I have Maggie Thatcher's words tattooed in my brain on auto loop "if your over 30 and still catching a bus you should consider yourself an abject failure."

I think the rich Swiss /Japanese may have a thing or two to say about that ! except their more likely to be on a train perhaps she has more favourable views on other public transport options ? probably not being a a far right loony that she is (this political demographic hate public transport) it was even mocked on Grand Theft |Auto San Andreas.

Conservatives like to sell it off than pay subsidises back to private enterprise which results in higher costs to the community.

Not sure what her views are on cyclists my favourite way to get around if you believe the glib stereotypes she probably think their smelly hippies yes ?

Buses confuse me, but I love taking them. I always get lost trying to figure out which one goes where, but once I figure out a route I love taking them. My city is small so there usually aren't too many people on the bus at once, which is awesome for me because sitting in the back and reading all the way to wherever I'm going is one of my favorite things.

I hated riding the school bus. It's loud, a few people were as*holes to me, the seats weren't far apart enough to be comfortable, I sometimes had to sit beside idiots, and it's always either too cold or too hot. Also, the buses were old and unreliable; I don't know how many times they broke down, but it was too many. I'm so glad I'm going to be driving to school next year. I hated that crap so fricking much. I don't care how bad it is for the planet, I like to be comfortable on my trip to and from school. Now, if clean running cars actually existed and were efficient and affordable, that would be totally different, but that's not my problem (yet).

Hey y'all, I found the perfect solution for the noisiness of the bus which I too hate! Hearing protectors! Specifically, the 3M 30 DB reduction type which are far superior to the so called Walmart-variety "30 decibel" hearing protectors. In conjunction with ear buds, it's like the noisy world of the bus fades away (Especially when I'm getting into a video game on the laptop.) as I engross myself into my own little world. [I have to admit I'm quite lucky that my bus schedule for the summer allows for me to have a seat all to myself.]

Does it make you look crazy? YES, IT DOES! You just need to get over caring what other people think. Haha, just kidding. There's numerous people who wear those high quality cup-styled ear phones, so it looks just like that except... far superior. I can't really stand those "active silencing" Bose headphones as it creates a static-ky background that really seems to increase pressure on the ear drums or something.

I had to take the bus a while back when I was working at a department store. I hated it. I looked up the schedule beforehand but was never confident in knowing it. They only stopped the bus if you pulled this thing but a good deal of the time that wouldn't work and you'd have to yell for them to do so, which made me very uncomfortable. I was never bothered by anyone on the bus. However almost every day I had to walk to the bus stop and be there early because the buses never ran on time (sometimes early, sometimes late) and a man who lived in a nearby apartment building would come out and hit on me & other women. I also hated that sometimes when I got off of work I would wait for my bus to arrive but it sometimes didn't. I didn't want to be stranded there so I would have to call a close friend. Often while he was picking me up my bus would finally arrive and he would look at me like 'it showed up' but it was so erratic. Once when that happened I tried to walk home but I had never walked in that area and it was really far away so I had to turn back and wait.

I usually only ever find them hard because of co-ordination issues. Most commonly, there are several people at the stop and when a bus comes it's hard to tell non-verbally who is and isn't getting the bus. Or, although I'll normally get a seat to myself, if someone does sit beside me I'll most likely get crushed in, because it's almost always a morbidly obese person who sits beside me. I also find it hard if a group of teenagers is on the bus, because that disturbs me.