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Buses blocking the road
Nick H (UK) wrote:
Anonymouse wrote: SNIPPED From personal experience, I would put it as punish-the-few-for-the-sins-of-the-majority. There is something quite scary about the way normally rational people behave when behind the wheel of a car. And let's not forget the six million bus passengers every day in London who are currently inconvenienced by inconsiderate drivers. Well well, six million people ehh? every day? Would that be a rational reasonable statistic? have they been counted? smells like spin to me. Six million people per day - well six million journeys. This is the way transport statistics are usually given, for cars as well as public transport. I did mean to give my reference: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/press-re...ess-1018.shtml It sounds reasonable to me. Please give your references or calculations if you still want to claim that it isn't. But: When a bus driver can't pull in because the stop is full of cars, or obstructed by cars then it is not down to the bus. If traffic wardens spent their time targeting behaviour that actually obstructs traffic everyone would be better off. Such as illegal parking. However, I agree that traffic wardens should be more proactive in targetting selfish and dangerous behaviour. My pet hates a - Drivers who ignore rule 146 section two of the highway code. This states: "Take extra care at junctions. You should: ... watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way" (see http://www.highcode.gov.uk/16.shtml) I have yet to meet a driver who knows this rule. - People who ignore box junctions. Just what is wrong with them? However, when it was suggested that traffic wardens should be able to fine drivers for this type of offence, the pro-car lobby were up in arms, which shows just how moronic most of them are. What is your solution to the problem? I have already written why I think delaying car drivers for a short while is OK. Before, buses were unable to pull out in traffic. Now, they can. If the solution inconveniences those who are considerate, maybe they will increase peer pressure on those who are not, and change their behaviour. There are lots of dreadful drivers in London, behind the wheels of all kinds of vehicles, public service included. That's true, but I'm afraid it is just human nature. I'm not sure people are really suitable to be drivers. For the record, I nearly always let buses and taxis pull out ahead of me, providing they indicate their intention sufficiently in advance that I can slow down slightly without needing to brake, creating a gap into which they can pull. I sometimes get hooted from vehicles behind and once a bicycle decided to overtake me on the left, narrowly escaping being sandwiched between the bus and my nearside front wing - some people just cannot read the road ahead of them! It's amazing, isn't it. If only all drivers were as good as those who post to newsgroups! (Actually, why not brake to let buses pull out? I don't understand that point.) Why not indeed? When a bus is stopped on a busy road it isn't going to get out (just as a car is not going to get out of a side road) unless people use speed and lane discipline to facilitate each other. And a lot of the time we do, or there would be vehicles full of skeletons all over the roads. I really am all for a higher standard of driving. How about the professionals setting a good example? A |
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