My route to work takes me past the high school where the big yellow buses arrogantely assume their size means they can drive anywhere they like - pulling out in front of me, turning in front of me, etc. When I've caught up to one of them, the toothless driver grinned and laughed when I asked about pulling out in front of cyclists.

At the end of my commute when I ride onto the college campus, the university shuttle buses are coming in on my route, me in the bike lane, them on the 2-lanes of the boulevard. At the stop sign where they must turn right, they've been pulling INTO the bike lane & blocking it while they turn. I banged on the side of one of them last week & yelled at the driver for being in MY / the BIKE LANE. He apologized & said his manager TOLD them to pull into the bike lane at that intersection to stop cyclists from coming up beside the buses. Turns out that a bus hit a bike several years ago when the (idiot) cyclist blew thru the stop sign, went straight & the bus turned right. So now all the buses swerve into the bike lane at the intersection.

I sent an e-mail to the campus transportation director asking if bus policy was actually to do this. There has been no response. But this morning I pulled up to that same campus stop sign & the bus was politely in its own lane. I turned right, the bus turned right & we all arrived safely.