03-02-2018, 01:32 PM
(03-02-2018, 01:07 PM)Canard Wrote: As a driver, I notice busses are SUPER cautious when pulling out. Like ridiculously cautious, to the point of causing huge delays to the flow of traffic that could otherwise be avoided.
I’ve noticed this too. I think drivers have been over-conditioned for safety, to the point where they don’t interact naturally with the other traffic (a little like some self-driving vehicles). Once I had to detour around a bus that was stopped at the red light where the tracks cross University. They drove up to the tracks on the green, stopped as required at all crossings, then the light went red and they just sat there.
Which as anybody who has passed their driving test should know is incorrect driving: once you’re past the stop line, you proceed if the light goes red, rather than “blocking the box” as they say in Manhattan.