On 15 May, 12:10, John B wrote:
On May 15, 11:53 am, MIG wrote:

The operations but not the windy, narrow roads. *When I cycle I often
find myself at places like St Pauls trying to get past overlapping
521s which are managing to block both lanes of the road while
diagonally enclosing areas of empty space that nothing can drive into,
but leaving too few inches of space at at least one point for a even a
bike to squeeze past.

Ah, you're a cyclist. Suddenly it all becomes clear...

I'm also a bus passenger and pedestrian (crosser-of-roads) at various
times, during which I find that bendy buses are disadvantageous to me
compared with other kinds of buses, even if they are preferable to
cars and vans.

That is, bus drivers may be less likely than van drivers to block
pedestrian crossings, but bendy buses are more likely to do so than
other buses.

To answer an earlier question, I have come up against this problem in
Oxford Street, High Holborn, Regent Street, Trafalgar Square ...

(By the way, I don't think you can define a person by a thing they do
sometimes [or by what they eat or their hair colour ...].)