London Buses are Good

I'd hazard a bet that tfl have spent (over the past 4 years) the most of any city in the world training bus drivers and this is likely to change given economic circumstances. therefore what we are seeing now is likly to be the best behaved bus drivers we are going to get...it's downhil from here. but i'm only guessing and i could be wrong.

Yes, it's interesting--complaints about bus drivers on LCC mailing lists (which, ironically enough, were higher before the introduction of articulated buses than afterwards) have really gone down.

You still get the odd bad day for a driver when he drives badly, but it seems to have become a more respected profession.