On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:57:45 -0700 (PDT), bod43
wrote:

I think that a key reason that they are less pleasant for
cyclists is that the larger size of them results in there being
an increased frequency of ill-judged attempted overtakes (where
for example the driver drives as if the bus had zero length) and
fewer options are left for the cyclist when the bus driver offers
imminent death. Bizarrely, driving a bus in a manner contrary
to the recommendations of the highway code does not seem
to be considered careless or dangerous unless someone
is dead.

The aircraft industry and the HSE have recognised for
decades that routine unsafe operation results in routine
deaths, with a bit of luck the HSE will turn their attention
further towards road deaths and injuries while "at work" in
the near future.


Complete, over-emotive nonsense. The statistics will show that bendy
buses have an excellent safety record. If the figures really showed
that they were unsafe, they would have been gone long ago.

What few problems there are - and let's be in no doubt, they are few -
seem to be a direct result of other road users (car and lorry drivers,
cyclists and pedestrians) failing to take any account of the size of
the bus. Treating it as though it was smaller, then complaining
bitterly because it isn't, displays the head-in-the-sand attitide that
is at the root of opposition to these very fine vehicles.