With the very greatest respect to all the QL users and please don't feel I am being rude, but i do find that most of the people who told me that the bus is too dangerous had never actually been on a bus in this country. Have you ever been on a London bus? I have never felt more vulnerable than when sitting behind a group of people smoking crack, or what about the time someone got stabbed right in front of my eyes. Here, if anyone so much as looks at me, the men on the bus leap to my defence. In London, the guy who was stabbed was lurching up and down the aisle, begging for help. We all just looked at the ground and pretended not to see him, we were too scared.
I would recommend trying it, at east once. Sometimes it is actually more convenient.