[Scoundreller]

> We knew from studies in the 1950s comparing London bus drivers and London bus conductors that lived in the same environment, but one — they had the bus drivers who were sitting, the conductors were standing, and the heart disease rate among the drivers was twice that of the conductors.

Yeah, uhhhh, driving a bus in an urban centre built before motor vehicles doesn’t sound like the most calming of careers.

[mhovan]

Especially if they open the draw bridge in front of you:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7m8dmkglxo

[defrost]

It's all relative, from the PoV of the driver it was less stressful than his earlier driving gig:

  "He said that he had been a tank-driver during the war and that a tank would have had no trouble getting on to the other side and decided to see if a double-decker could do the same.

[bqmjjx0kac]

Unless they randomly assigned jobs, I am quite skeptical. A person with poor cardiovascular health seems unlikely to pursue a job that requires walking all day!

[pjc50]

> doesn’t sound like the most calming of careers

Some places in the UK are having problems retaining/recruiting drivers because of safety issues: attacks on bus drivers, either by angry passengers or random yobs :(

I also remember that London bus drivers had a very high mortality rate right at the start of the pandemic: https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-reports/lo...