Video: Tourist bus driver mounts kerb to admonish cyclists

Joeinpoole wrote:

FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

kevinmorice wrote:

As with most of these, I want to see the previous few minutes of footage rather than take it at face value with edit choices of the supposedly aggrieved cyclists.

The bus driver is clearly upset by something in the behaviour of the cyclists but nothing they do during the video seems too bad. One of them pulling out to hog the lane while his friend undertakes is not particularly good behaviour. But both of them laughing at having held up the bus is good evidence that they are pleased with themselves for having obstructed him, until they realise he is going to react and suddenly it isn't so funny.

So what else were they up to in the couple of minutes previous?

What a daft comment.

Not really. To quote Baruch Spinoza “No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”

So what actions by the cyclist makes it legal to drive a bus onto the pavement?

kevinmorice wrote:

So what else were they up to in the couple of minutes previous?

Ooooh, yes. I see where you're coming from. Obviously whatever they were doing it justified the bus driver mounting the pavement. Good one.

Scrapples wrote:

You should see the frothing at the mouth over on the daily fail this is causing, makes me chuckle. As for the incident, nothing less than I expect from a London bus driver

I always go straight for the "best rated" comments, never fails to make me smile.

So the top three are -

"Idiotic, self entitled cyclists are becoming an increasing menace! I don't blame the driver at all, it clearly isn't as straightforward as the whingeing cyclists have made out!" - 2681 up, 826 down votes

"My sympathies are with the bus driver. The overwhelming majority of cyclists ignore the Highway Code especially those referring to traffic lights." - 2107 up, 490 down votes

And my personal favourite in third - "Ban cyclists" - 1537 up, 660 down votes

The Daily Mail was best summed up by an American I shared a flight with a few year ago. She'd collected a complimentary copy whilst boarding the plane, and after reading a few pages she decided to introduce herself to her fellow passenger (me) by asking "excuse me, is this paper a fucking joke or is it for real?"

Binky wrote:

Good job they had a camera, otherwise the complaint would most likely be ignored, even if the company had the option to check the cameras on the bus.

Binky. I don't follow that. The company probably don't want their customers (tourists) being treated to a road rage incident by one of their drivers driving on the pavement. Plus this is a liveried vehicle so it brings the company into disrepute anyway. Then there's the issue of how their asset is being treated anyway not to mention the loss of business if he damages the bus and it needs to be repaired and that's without the insurance implications.

If I were his employer I wouldn't want him putting up my insurance, damaging company property, frightening customers and destroying the company's good name. Let alone the issue of the fact that he has anger issue and wondering what the hell he is going to do next. Why would you think they'd want to keep someone like that? Most companies spend a lot of money making sure they don't employ people like that and are all too keen to get rid of people that are a risk to their business.