View Full Version : How come people don't get the whole bus lane thing ?
Captain_Scarlet 22-10-2004, 11:39 Right, a bit of a rant...
Why do people purposely avoid the bus lane OUTSIDE bus lane times ? :rant:
Unecessary traffic jams could be avoided if the traffic merged in two lanes.
No ?
Abbeydale Rd, Chesterfield Rd, London Rd; traffic jams at obscure times like 10... or 14h'...
What's the deal ?
Originally posted by Captain_Scarlet
Right, a bit of a rant...
Why do people purposely avoid the bus lane OUTSIDE bus lane times ? :rant:
Unecessary traffic jams could be avoided if the traffic merged in two lanes.
No ?
What's the deal ?
Simple. The IQ of a human being is severely reduced when she or he climbs into the driving seat of a motor vehicle.
Originally posted by Captain_Scarlet
Right, a bit of a rant...
Why do people purposely avoid the bus lane OUTSIDE bus lane times ? :rant:
Unecessary traffic jams could be avoided if the traffic merged in two lanes.
No ?
Abbeydale Rd, Chesterfield Rd, London Rd; traffic jams at obscure times like 10... or 14h'...
What's the deal ?
there are 2 types of driver that have a problem with bus lanes.
the first uses the bus lanes at all time because they own the road.
the second never uses the bus lanes so that they having something to moan about.
Originally posted by Captain_Scarlet
Why do people purposely avoid the bus lane OUTSIDE bus lane times ?
Hey, I'm all for it, as it usually means I get a whole lane to myself.
Need to watch out though up near the Uni as the signs saying the bus lane is a bus lane at all times look like they're about to be unveiled soon.... but maybe not until the roadworks on the junction there are finished.
spiffymonkey 22-10-2004, 12:25 Originally posted by Captain_Scarlet
Why do people purposely avoid the bus lane OUTSIDE bus lane times ? :rant:
Unecessary traffic jams could be avoided if the traffic merged in two lanes.
No ?
I always make sure I note when a particular bus lane is in service if I go on one I haven't used before. If it's outside time, I'm straight in there and whizzing past everyone :) My favourite is on Granville Road going to Queens Road. You can go straight through to the lights without anyone in the way after 6pm :)
The worst one, though, is coming down from Banner Cross to Hunters Bar roundabout. The bus and car lanes actually cross over at the bottom. Nearly got squashed by a bus yesterday because he turned too early and didn't spot me (read: didn't look) in the way.
Trouble is a lot of bus lanes allow parking outside rush hour. I've been caught out a few times coming into town down Chesterfield road of an evening, driving in the (empty) bus lane, only to come round a corner and find a car parked in front of me.
Pete1024 24-10-2004, 19:13 I was driving down a bus lane (valid 4:30- 630pm etc) at 1:35 pm. and some guy in a BMW queing in the normal lane (probably because he can't read) purposefully blocked me by driving half way between the two lanes. I mean how thick are some of these people!
Originally posted by Pete1024
I was driving down a bus lane (valid 4:30- 630pm etc) at 1:35 pm. and some guy in a BMW queing in the normal lane (probably because he can't read) purposefully blocked me by driving half way between the two lanes. I mean how thick are some of these people!
Extremely!!
Its a simple lack of observation,which is quite worrying
Captain_Scarlet 25-10-2004, 20:51 Originally posted by Pete1024
I was driving down a bus lane (valid 4:30- 630pm etc) at 1:35 pm. and some guy in a BMW queing in the normal lane (probably because he can't read) purposefully blocked me by driving half way between the two lanes. I mean how thick are some of these people!
They think they are smart, they are sure the bus lane is for buses all day.
It's that green painted tarmac, it scares them. :help: :loopy:
Good question. Perhaps theres something about these awful bus lanes that send people crazy? For example, they nearly always have the effect of confusing bus drivers to such an extent that instead of the 'mirror-signal-manoeuvre' technique of pulling out, they get it completely the wrong way round.
It works both ways. One of the more interesting things you can do when driving is to park just under the sign explaining the bus lane time on Ecclesall Road by the Parkies house in Endcliffe Park after 9.30.
Even with a hundred yards of indicating and slowing down the cars behind still don't seem to understand that it's not an urban clearway anymore.
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