Steff, thanks you are probably right, i'll try to memorize that for next time a bus driver says somethign similar.
I've said this in another thread (maybe this one) but London's bus drivers are definitely the best i've seen,
I wouldn't go that far, more importatnly I wasn't suggesting all bus drivers were fuckwits, just this one. Most are good, a lot seem to have been told to drive in a way that may put other smaller road users in harms way as it'll get the job done. And there are a very small number of absolute cunts driving buses... mostly they seem to do circles of elephant and castle.
But you've got to give them and other people who make their money driving on london's roads their dues. It's not a job I would like to do for 8 hours a day. It's bad enough driving in london once a month for a couple of hours.
Note, I wasn't complaining about the bus pulling out on me, I like to think I can handle myself and wouldn't have shot the gap the nodder did, but the bus shouldn't have pulled out when there was basically no space just to make the gap for this nodder smaller... it was typical "I'm stuck in traffic not going anywhere so I'm going to get within 1 inch of the vehicle infront" behaviour... the vehicle in front being a cement mixer.
Bluequinn, I used to go slow infront of dangerous vehicles, but I'd much rather go as fast as possible, they'll end up being stuck in traffic anyway... it's much more fun leaving traffic in your wake, than being nudged off the road as happened to me once.
Steff, thanks you are probably right, i'll try to memorize that for next time a bus driver says somethign similar.
But you've got to give them and other people who make their money driving on london's roads their dues. It's not a job I would like to do for 8 hours a day. It's bad enough driving in london once a month for a couple of hours.
Note, I wasn't complaining about the bus pulling out on me, I like to think I can handle myself and wouldn't have shot the gap the nodder did, but the bus shouldn't have pulled out when there was basically no space just to make the gap for this nodder smaller... it was typical "I'm stuck in traffic not going anywhere so I'm going to get within 1 inch of the vehicle infront" behaviour... the vehicle in front being a cement mixer.
Bluequinn, I used to go slow infront of dangerous vehicles, but I'd much rather go as fast as possible, they'll end up being stuck in traffic anyway... it's much more fun leaving traffic in your wake, than being nudged off the road as happened to me once.