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@ewanmac
calling out bad drivers (busses)?
This morning I was zipping along in the cycle lane (all clear ahead of me) when a bus accelerated past me and immediately cut across my path breaking hard to stop at a bus stop. A bit of evasive action and swerving around the bus into a busy lane of traffic (thankfully there was a small gap) and everything was fine. But, had it not been for the lucky timing of a gap in the traffic things could have been a lot worse. As I wen't past the bus I gave a quick exasperated slap on the driver's window and then stopped at the next bus stop and took a photo so that I could identify the offending vehicle.
Nothing bad came of my near miss, no witnesses and no evidence - I find it hard to believe that either the bus company or the police will take any action, so I see little point in reporting the incident. 90% of me just doesn't care - everything was fine and it was just another instance of stupid driving, but the remainder feels that had I been less experienced or less lucky then I could have been seriously hurt and that such instances of bad driving should at least be flagged in the hope that they reduce the chances of an accident in the future. At what point do we start calling out bad drivers (especially professional drivers)?