In message , at 00:52:56 on Mon, 27
Jul 2009, Basil Jet remarked:
The problem for long vehicles is that the law doesn't help them. If you have
two crawling lanes and a long vehicle trying to cross a zebra crossing (or
box junction), every time a car-length gap opens on the far side of the
crossing the driver has a choice - either pull forward and trail over the
crossing, or wait, in which case the car alongside him will cut diagonally
over the crossing and steal the gap. If he allows the latter to happen, it
can happen repeatedly, in which case he will be there all day waiting for a
big enough gap on the far side.

Isn't that a very good reason why these buses aren't suitable?

Zebra crossings and box junctions should be redesigned so that the
lanes are clearly marked through them, and it should be made an offence
to change lane on a box junction or zebra crossing (with public
information films to explain why the change).

Costly and time consuming. Why not just use a more suitable bus?
--
Roland Perry