If you didn't know about signaling for your stop, or you didn't know how to do it, you can find out how to do it next time. (It is reasonable to expect buses to stop at every marked stop. However, often city buses stop only at stops where people are waiting for the bus, or where passengers have indicated they want to get off. More @Wikipedia
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