Bus drivers

Aidy

Today -

Me: Excuse me, you've just stopped in the cycle box.
Bus driver: *makes rude hand gesture and swears*
Me: That's effectively a red light jump
Bus driver: *swears louder at me, gesturing me off the road*
Me: There's a big green area on the road, with a picture of a bicycle in it - when the light is red *points* you should stop behind it *gestures back*
Bus driver: *shakes fist*
Me: *leans around the front of the bus, reads out licence plate loudly*
Bus driver: Err... you can go in front *points in front of the bus*

Jay dubbleU

If you go round to the rear most buses have a big button marked 'Emergency Engine Stop' - just for future reference :twisted:

iclestu

Jay dubbleU wrote:

If you go round to the rear most buses have a big button marked 'Emergency Engine Stop' - just for future reference :twisted:

Tell me you never! Tell me you never!

Jay dubbleU

Not yet - but its knowing that I could

cjcp

Jay dubbleU wrote:

If you go round to the rear most buses have a big button marked 'Emergency Engine Stop' - just for future reference :twisted:

+1

AndyManc

cjcp wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

If you go round to the rear most buses have a big button marked 'Emergency Engine Stop' - just for future reference :twisted:

+1

+2 Especially if it's p issing down.


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rubbercolin

just press the red button

:twisted:

prj45

Did you see him go over the first line when the light was red?

It's not actually illegal to be stopped in the cycle box.

Aidy

prj45 wrote:

Did you see him go over the first line when the light was red?

It's not actually illegal to be stopped in the cycle box.

Yes, I did.
It was clearly red long before he was at the first stop line.

downfader

..I'll say it again incase the stupid are reading this just incase

NEVER press that button! a) on a moving vehicle its effectively like slamming a brake and b) if you press it whe the vehicle is stationary it can fudge up the engine

Aidy, well done to you! 8)

Jay dubbleU

downfader wrote:

..I'll say it again incase the stupid are reading this just incase

NEVER press that button! a) on a moving vehicle its effectively like slamming a brake and b) if you press it whe the vehicle is stationary it can fudge up the engine

Aidy, well done to you! 8)

Of course I would never suggest such a thing - I merely point it out in case of emergency

downfader

Actually the Bus drivers here have been brilliant lately. It seems alien to hear of them doing stuff like this elsewhere.

prj45

Aidy wrote:

prj45 wrote:

Did you see him go over the first line when the light was red?

It's not actually illegal to be stopped in the cycle box.

Yes, I did.
It was clearly red long before he was at the first stop line.

Guilty as charged.

oscarbudgie

I had a flurry of bus aggro a few weeks ago, resorted to unloading a bidon through the open window of one :evil: but now it seems that SUV's are the ones out to get me....

iainment

AndyManc wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

If you go round to the rear most buses have a big button marked 'Emergency Engine Stop' - just for future reference :twisted:

+1

+2 Especially if it's p issing down.


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and get a bus full of people thinking aren't you nice.

Clever Pun

iclestu wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

If you go round to the rear most buses have a big button marked 'Emergency Engine Stop' - just for future reference :twisted:

Tell me you never! Tell me you never!

I've read about someone doing it, but the bus driver was being a toatl c0ck by all accounts

prawny

Kids used to press that button when I was at school all the time. The travel WM buses used to wait in the school entrance, must have been pressed about 5 times a day.

I never did though, I was an angel at school *ting*

MonkeyMonster

prawny wrote:

I was an angel at school *ting*

That the sound of your brass halo falling on the floor? :P

prawny

MonkeyMonster wrote:

prawny wrote:

I was an angel at school *ting*

That the sound of your brass halo falling on the floor? :P

No, me playing the triangle in the school orchestra

Clever Pun

prawny wrote:

MonkeyMonster wrote:

prawny wrote:

I was an angel at school *ting*

That the sound of your brass halo falling on the floor? :P

No, me playing the triangle in the school orchestra

and oh so talented to boot

downfader

prawny wrote:

MonkeyMonster wrote:

prawny wrote:

I was an angel at school *ting*

That the sound of your brass halo falling on the floor? :P

No, me playing the triangle in the school orchestra

..are you Simon Cowell perchance?

hoolio

"Me: *leans around the front of the bus, reads out licence plate loudly*
Bus driver: Err... you can go in front *points in front of the bus*"

prawny

downfader wrote:

prawny wrote:

MonkeyMonster wrote:

prawny wrote:

I was an angel at school *ting*

That the sound of your brass halo falling on the floor? :P

No, me playing the triangle in the school orchestra

..are you Simon Cowell perchance?

Busted! arse :?

Aidy

Had another incident at the same set of lights last night.

Except it was some woman in a car, and I was already in the cycle box before she decided that there was ample space there for her and her car, if only I'd move over a bit.

And obviously the best way of making me move over was to creep gradually into the box edging towards me (which okay, worked, it was that or be hit by the car).

Me: Excuse me? Idiot. It's a red light.
Her: What?
Me: Red light *pointing*, cycle box *pointing*. You're supposed to stop behind the line.
Her: Did you call me an idiot?
Me: Yes, you're an idiot.
Her: Did you call me an idiot?
Me: Yes.
Her: Did you call me an idiot?
Me: Yes, I called you an idiot.
Her: *Pulls further forward, past the foremost white line (light still red)* Don't call me an idiot.
Me: But you're being an idiot.
Her: Don't call me an idiot! Am I an idiot?
Me: Yes.
Her: Right. I'm going to call the police.

Porgy

Aidy wrote:

Her: Right. I'm going to call the police.

Did she?

will3

well did she? I mean we need to be told if calling someone an idiot is illegal :roll:

will3

perhaps she was calling them to turn herself in.

Aidy

Porgy wrote:

Aidy wrote:

Her: Right. I'm going to call the police.

Did she?

She certainly was reaching around in the passenger footwell for something.

Light went green before she found anything, so I pedalled off. I was quite tempted to hang around and have it out, partially for the amusement value of hearing her go "Hello? 999? Yes. A cyclist called me an idiot."

Porgy

Aidy wrote:

Porgy wrote:

Aidy wrote:

Her: Right. I'm going to call the police.

Did she?

She certainly was reaching around in the passenger footwell for something.

Light went green before she found anything, so I pedalled off. I was quite tempted to hang around and have it out, partially for the amusement value of hearing her go "Hello? 999? Yes. A cyclist called me an idiot."

Usually when someone threatens to phone the police I get my phone out and offer to do it for them - I haven't had anyone hang around to take up the offer yet.

spen666

Aidy wrote:

Porgy wrote:

Aidy wrote:

Her: Right. I'm going to call the police.

Did she?

She certainly was reaching around in the passenger footwell for something.

Light went green before she found anything, so I pedalled off. I was quite tempted to hang around and have it out, partially for the amusement value of hearing her go "Hello? 999? Yes. A cyclist called me an idiot."

That's so serious that only a custodial sentence is justified

Aidy

Porgy wrote:

Usually when someone threatens to phone the police I get my phone out and offer to do it for them - I haven't had anyone hang around to take up the offer yet.

If it was just me and her, I probably would have hung around and mocked some more. There was a fair queue of traffic behind me though, and I don't like inconviencing the innocent.

I might have suggested to the child in the back that it would be in their best interests not to be like their mother when they grow up before heading off, though.