Martin Underwood wrote:

"Anonymouse" wrote in message
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Nick H (UK) wrote:


The cause of the filling in of bus stops is that car drivers don't let
buses pull out. If car drivers acquired some basic consideration for
other people (which it's questionable whether you can have if you choose
to drive in London anyway), this wouldn't be necessary.


Ah, the old punish-the-majority-for-the-sins-of-the-few ploy? The same sort
of unthinking easy-way-out solution that a teacher might use - keeping the
whole school in because someone has written a "naughty word" on the bog
wall!

For the record, I nearly always let buses and taxis pull out ahead of me,

Me too. I figure that the guy who /has/ to drive all day because it his
job deserves a bit of extra consideration. But, if the balance of my
experience gets to be that the bus drivers I let out will block me soon
after then...

providing they indicate their intention sufficiently in advance that I can
slow down slightly without needing to brake, creating a gap into which they
can pull. I sometimes get hooted from vehicles behind and once a bicycle
decided to overtake me on the left, narrowly escaping being sandwiched
between the bus and my nearside front wing - some people just cannot read
the road ahead of them!




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Nick H (UK)