Are they taught to deliberately block both lanes when they stop at traffic
lights, so that no-one else can overtake them? I followed one tonight, and
he did it at every junction. I don't really understand this mentality - as
the driver of a vehicle which is very slow up hills, I go to a fair effort
to make sure that other vehicles do have opportunities to overtake me,
putting my left indicator on whenever there is a motor bike behind me and so
on, partly because when you drive as much as I do, little tasks like that
help keep driving enjoyable. Maybe bus drivers are frustrated Formula One
drivers, or maybe it's a Livingstone policy to make buses more competitive
with other forms of transport by making sure buses slow everything else down
to bus speed.

Incidentally, a bus full of passengers tried to do this a few months ago,
but he accidentally left *just* enough room on the inside for me to sneak up
next to him, so I did that, being careful to check that the passenger
door(s) were not open. He looked very annoyed when I appeared next to his
passenger door. So, although the lights were still red, he pulled forward
about 6 metres over the stop line and swung to the left, in order to make
sure I couldn't beat him away from the lights. As I overtook him at the next
bus stop, he shouted criticism about my driving!