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Bus driver complaint and OYBike
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:43:38 +0100, Paul Weaver wrote:
Good for them, if they insist of breaking the law while doing that then they should get a job where they cant endanger others. But do bear in mind what I said in my last post. A lot of practises are institutionalised. To give an example, most couriers get paid by the number of drops they make. If any driver consistently took longer to make a journey than the rest of his colleagues, he would in all likelihood lose his job. Believe me, driving agressively would become second nature to you if you were working under those conditions. You aren't thinking about it, you're just doing it. Also, you need to understand by doing what you want to do you are doing all other cyclists a disservice. Do you really think that shouting at a driver or trying to get him disciplined or even fired is going to make him behave better towards other cyclists? Will it buggery. What's the difference between a bus driver and a car driver, except a bus driver should know better? IME there is a world of difference between a 17 year old driver in a hot hatch and a bus driver. Teenagers are famed for having a very unrealistic view of their mortality (look at the number killed walking across roads). Add to that an intoxicating sense of power that the car gives many new drivers and the fact that an inexperienced driver will have less actual driving ability than someone who has driven a bus (a vehicle 20 times the size of a small car) 8 hours a day for the last 20 years, and I would certainly say the two are different. So I stick with what I said yesterday. In this case I personally think you are in the right, but all the same let it go. It isn't doing anyone any good. -- |C|H|R|I|S|@|T|R|I|N|I|T|Y|W|I|L|L|S|.|C|O|M| Remove the bars to contact me |
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