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Bus company will likely pass your comments onto the 'fleet manager' and deal with it robustly where necessary. Or some guff like that. Who knows what will happen.
I am wondering whether you lodge a close pass with the police and go for a prosecution?
I had a similar incident and after the initial email heard nothing more from the bus company.
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I also feel the fact the driver told me “you don’t own the road” should be addressed in some way. As somehow that gave him the right put my life in danger?
So I had something like this today on my first attempt at cycling in Cardiff today. Long story short, I was keeping up with the car in front of me in primary, with about a cars length between me and it, and the next thing I know is a bus is unnecessarily overtaking and trying to squeeze into said gap. I kept up thinking he'll drop back which he absolutely should have. He doubled down and just merged forcing me to slam my brakes on or be crushed. He literally stopped 20 seconds down the road to go into his house, so I politely confronted him and said it was highly illegal what he did, dangerous, and asked him why he felt the need to overtake me given I was going as fast as the car in front and there is absolutely no room.
His response was the most scary thing I've heard, more so than if he just screamed at me and said the same old shit about road tax etc. But no, he opined that I should have slowed down to yield to him as that's what the rules are, and that "all bus drivers are told to overtake cyclist at all times and it's the cyclist's onus to let busses by". Even with me saying that he'd not pass a driving test/get fired etc he continued and said there was no need for me to keep up with the cars and that cyclists shouldn't think themselves as equals on the road and "it's ok mate, you'll get used to it, it's how all drivers are".
Just called the bus company who were dumbfounded by the bus drivers erroneous assertions about their training and asked to get the CCTV footage. I mainly said that what he did was dangerous, but I was more concerned about his complete ignorance about the way he should be driving a murder mobile! Waiting on a response...
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I had a bus overtake me on a sharp corner today, which pushed me into the curb. Ofcourse the traffic light just slightly ahead was red and then the bus immediately pulls over at the next bus stop the other side of the lights.
I pulled over in front of the bus and took a photo so I could get the details to report it to the bus company and request the CCTV footage using GDPR. I wasn’t going to engage with the driver but when he saw me take a photo he opened his window and began shouting.
I went over and he was telling me it’s illegal to take photos of people in public. I told him he is incorrect, to which he replied saying he use to be a policeman and knows the law. Then he went on to say he gave me enough room as he moved over the white line into the other lane (oncoming traffic lane).
I tried to tell him that the corner he overtook me on turns into a pinch point, for cyclists, when buses/lorries overtake there. His response was to tell me that I don’t own the road.
I tried to explain again all I wanted to tell him was the corner can be dangerous for cyclists when long vehicles overtake.
I’ve sent an email to the bus company requesting the footage.
I also feel the fact the driver told me “you don’t own the road” should be addressed in some way. As somehow that gave him the right put my life in danger?
Also would like if the bus company could pass some info to him regarding public photography law.