"David B" wrote in message
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"Joe" wrote in message
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Has someone added the words "Except Buses" after everything in the
highway code?
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Okay who cut you up/what did you see?

I think it's the same exclusion clause as the one for bicycles: the one
which says that they are allowed to go through red traffic lights and across
occupied zebra crossings with impunity ;-)

Lest you think that I'm being "bicylist", let me say that I do cycle, but I
NEVER go through red traffic lights (as I don't when I'm driving a car) and
NEVER overtake cars/lorries on the left on the approach to a junction where
one might be turning left into a minor road. (As a car driver I drive
defensively in the latter situation and move close to the kerb if I'm
turning left to block cyclists from overtaking in this reckless and
dangerous circumstance.)

The other day, on my bike, I was slowing down for a zebra crossing in Oxford
that was packed with tourists crossing, when I was overtaken by a cyclist
who barged straight through the middle of them, parting them like Moses
parted the Red Sea!

The majority of times that I see a vehicle go through red traffic lights (*)
it's a bicycle.

(*) Apart from squeezing through just after the lights have turned red or
just before they go green - I'm talking about really blatant horn-blasting
red-light offences where the cars that are "in the right" have to brake.