A rant about those tosspots, BUS DRIVERS...

[JonnyBoy]

...Driving through Sheffield this aft in the Capri (giving the beast its shady weekly run so things don't sieze) and on one bit of road there's a bus stopped at a bus stop in front of me, left indicator on, obviously stopped to let people on/off. So I pull out to drive past it; its a wide road and there was plenty of room for both me and the oncoming Transit van to get through.

Well, there WAS room anyway... until Mr. F***ing C**teye Bus Driver decides to pull out while I'm alongside the b***ard! :bang:There wasn't room for a gnat's knacker between my Capri and either the bus or the van. I'm amazed nothing got scratched/****ted. What an arsehole. :tosser: :tosser: :tosser:
When I got in front of the f***er, I gave him the universal sign for "I believe you engage in frequent masturbation" out the window ( :tosser: ), slammed my brakes on, made him brake almost to a stop, then turned hard left onto another road and booted it in first, launching the beast sideways into the corner then flying off down the road like a rocket when the wheels hooked up :spin: :spin: :spin: (rear drive cars... )

I BLOODY DESPISE BUSES AND THE P****S WHO DRIVE THEM! :bang:

 

[The Negotiator]

Tell me about it, Manchester is a joke for buses as there are 4 companies always racing to pick up people not giving a damn.

I have actually written down a number plate today, we came to a junction, I could see 2 cop cars with sirens on coming from my left down a road that's half closed off (too complicated to explain) I of course hit the brakes, next thing I know a bus flies past, ok, let it off, cop cars still 10m from junction. Then guess what? Another ****er drives his bus through, the front cop car missed it by a few cm and had done a full emergency stop. TO top it all off this stupid woman in an A-class folllowed through, the bus had been blocked off slightly due to traffic so couldn't get passed = 20 seconds for her to put it in reverse and move out of the way of the cop cars.

What was the need? I ride a bike, stopping isn't fun as you have to get going again yet I still did it, if they hadn't heard them they must be deaf.

I hate it JB too when they pull out during overtaking, scary on a bike and they don't see you and you end up being forced onto the wrong side of the road.

 

[smurfhead]

some of them are really arrogant, but don't tar them all with the same brush.

I work for a firm who is in partnership with Arriva Midlands and I spend the majority of hours with the drivers. There is a core (mainly the older drivers) who hate anything on the road which weighs less than 7.5 tonnes and that you don't need a "special licence" for. They are also conincidentally the ones who don't have much of a life outside work too. Some of them do it on purpose because it says in the highway code you should give way to a bus pulling from a stop if you are behind it. Some of them have heads up their own arses and think they own the road and include people who are already passing them. They are the same people who drive past stops if you don't have your hand out in time or if a bus on a completely different route you don't want is in the stop. They honestly do have the attitude that the road is a battlefield.

The majority of them are just normal blokes and birds who enjoy driving and do it for a bit of money. They have a tough job and get enough hassle as it is due to some other drivers and arrogant passengers.

 

[arseofbox]

I hate it JB too when they pull out during overtaking, scary on a bike and they don't see you and you end up being forced onto the wrong side of the road.

Agreed. Up here in Lancaster, the buses are ridiculous...Ive heard lots from my cyclist mates that the drivers dont appear to actually reading the road at all...

Manchester is different. The bus drivers there appear to have a death-wish. I knew two of them until fairly recently, and theyre mad.

 

[The Negotiator]

I agree - of course it's not all of them or the majority but I rarely meet a nice bus driver be it in their personality of their driving attitude.

I have numerous bus stories from when one closed the doors on me, drove 2m and stopped at the lights and refused to let me on even then up to when one nearly swipped me into mush the other day but I am sure most people have similar.

 

[The Negotiator]

Tom, I seriously think that in manchester they have some weird targets and always try to get infront of the other company's buses etc.

 

[smurfhead]

one post away from 3000 paul.....

 

[The Negotiator]

More like 7k if you include LL posts

 

[smurfhead]

Yeah, i'd be probably be around 2k if the Leisure Lounge ones were included.
You should post a thread announcing it in a random section here to tick it over. hehe

 

[JonnyBoy]

I live in fear of driving in Manchester. For a start I always get lost, and also it's full of militant bus drivers (I've never seen so many buses, apparently Fallowfield where several of my mates live is near one of the busiest bus routes in europe), retarded boy racers in knackered 80's Hondas (particularly on the "curry mile") and some seriously dodgy attempts at traffic planning. I think when I go back there in a couple of weeks, I'll drive in at 4am when its quiet!

 

[smurfhead]

Bet your curry mile is nothing compared to Belgrave Rd/Melton Rd in Leicester. Take ages to get down there too and they are always digging it up on top of that. Loads of knackered Civics and kids who have borrowed their mum and Dads A-classes and beamers.
At a rough guesstimate, I think about 10, maybe more, bus routes go up there.

 

[The Negotiator]

Jonny, spot on, Oxford/Wimslow road is a nightmare be it walking (enough curry sellers trying to tempt you in for a life time), cycling (don't even go there!) to driving (ug!). It is the busiest bus route in Europe, apparently a bus every 25 seconds or so (though there are a hell of a lot of buses I don't believe that statistic). The city is impossible to drive in because it's just one big piece of traffic, people ignore all road rules including traffic lights (i.e. go through them 4-5 seconds after red instead of stopping).

You do also get the idiot boy racers on Oxford road and again as you say, it's as if a 5 year old designed all the roads.

To top it off, about 30% of junctions don't seem to have pedestrian traffic lights, if you want to cross you kinda have to hedge your bets, all my friends from outside of Manchester can't understand the lack of crossings?

 

[smurfhead]

Sounds like Leicester, the curry mile in huddersfield is just as dreadful to navigate too.
There is one junction in Huddersfield on ours where you leave the lights in two straight ahead lanes off the dual carridgeway and there is only one lane on the other side of the junction!!! I make sure the Sei shows themwhose boss when cutting me up there.