Keep Honking buddy...
So i'm riding home today and i see a bus closing its doors in front of me about 20 yards away. He doesn't signal and starts going into the middle lane REALLY slow because its a red light (its a 3 lane st). As he's about half way pass the right lane i begin passing him at about 25mph and and hes starts honking away at me even after i've passed him. I counted maybe 10-15 honks. Mind you, this was in brooklyn, the buses in the city are much more courteous and always let me pass before they take off from their bus stop.
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I yield to buses when I drive a car.
I yield to buses when I ride a bike. |
Yea maybe in toronto
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Yeah... I think you'd be better off yielding next time. Bike vs. Car is bad enough.
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Originally Posted by shubonker
(Post 7135914)
Yea maybe in toronto
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Originally Posted by cizzlak
(Post 7135957)
Does this brand of response not shed light into your own quagmire? Maybe the bus driver suffered from a "I'm in NYC, therefore, I should be a dick" mentality just like you? Just sayin'
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Originally Posted by shubonker
(Post 7135461)
So i'm riding home today and i see a bus closing its doors in front of me about 20 yards away. He doesn't signal and starts going into the middle lane REALLY slow because its a red light (its a 3 lane st). As he's about half way pass the right lane i begin passing him at about 25mph and and hes starts honking away at me even after i've passed him. I counted maybe 10-15 honks. Mind you, this was in brooklyn, the buses in the city are much more courteous and always let me pass before they take off from their bus stop.
And I ride 6th Ave (manhattan) from 17th to 49th every morning, so I don't scare easy. :p |
Originally Posted by Caaah
(Post 7136202)
Ok, so I wasn't just imagining things. The dude who drives the bus on 3rd Ave (brooklyn) that passes me every day is trying pretty damn hard to cut it close. I always have to slam on the break as he cuts through the bike lane right in front of me to get to the bus stop. Its been scary enough that now, if I see that guy coming I slow down and let him pass faaaar ahead of me, or make sure I can get ahead of him by a couple lights.
And I ride 6th Ave (manhattan) from 17th to 49th every morning, so I don't scare easy. :p |
Originally Posted by shubonker
(Post 7135461)
So i'm riding home today and i see a bus closing its doors in front of me about 20 yards away. He doesn't signal and starts going into the middle lane REALLY slow because its a red light (its a 3 lane st). As he's about half way pass the right lane i begin passing him at about 25mph and and hes starts honking away at me even after i've passed him. I counted maybe 10-15 honks. Mind you, this was in brooklyn, the buses in the city are much more courteous and always let me pass before they take off from their bus stop.
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My personal experience is that the public transit buses are the most predictable and law-abiding vehicles on the road. Of course I'm sure it varies greatly from location to location. I've come to trust that the MBTA buses will always signal when they're done picking up passengers and are merging back in with the traffic. I feel pretty safe passing on the left because they are so consistent with this.
Of course I've probably just jinxed myself now and will get creamed by the next bus I try to pass. |
Originally Posted by shubonker
(Post 7136230)
Cool, i ride on 3rd ave in brooklyn, too. I hate those bus drivers on 3rd, but this happened near flatbush ave where you get off of the brooklyn bridge. Those b37(i think its b37) drivers can be nasty tho. I usually go up AVE A after the manhattan bridge to 16th st, pretty good route.
I haven't tried going up Ave A yet, I'll have to give it a try ;) |
Originally Posted by apricissimus
(Post 7136488)
My personal experience is that the public transit buses are the most predictable and law-abiding vehicles on the road. Of course I'm sure it varies greatly from location to location. I've come to trust that the MBTA buses will always signal when they're done picking up passengers and are merging back in with the traffic. I feel pretty safe passing on the left because they are so consistent with this.
Of course I've probably just jinxed myself now and will get creamed by the next bus I try to pass. I Predicted the idiot would attempt to run me over and he did. I was just behind the rear axle of the bus when he did it. :innocent: I don't trust ANYTHING/ANYBODY to do what they should do. I know they are all trying to kill me. |
I didn't know there were ANY law abiding or courteous drives in Boston. (just kidding, but Boston drivers are up there on my list of worst drivers in the country.)
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Originally Posted by poopisnotfood
(Post 7138706)
I didn't know there were ANY law abiding or courteous drives in Boston. (just kidding, but Boston drivers are up there on my list of worst drivers in the country.)
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Originally Posted by shubonker
(Post 7136031)
Possibly, who knows. I prefer to weave in and out of traffic at a red light when cars don't want to leave me space on the right. Probably dangerous, but gosh is it fun!
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Originally Posted by Caaah
(Post 7138490)
Do you take Jay or Adams when you get off the bridge?
I haven't tried going up Ave A yet, I'll have to give it a try ;) Ave A is after 1st Ave just in case. And i usually take Manhattan bridge and down Sand st to Navy.
Originally Posted by Falkon
(Post 7140430)
Ooh, ooh! Can I take a guess? You ride a fixed gear, right?
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Originally Posted by Sirrus Rider
(Post 7136342)
Most of the drivers aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. You might be right in your interpretation of the rules of the road, but 43,000 plus pounds of mass is not something to argue with.:innocent:
I will agree with you that it's far more important to not argue with physics, regardless of the driver's intelligence. A smart driver can't stop a bus any faster than a dumb one. |
You want to talk about people who moan about how stupid people on the road are? Talk to train engineers. I think half of them retire early from mental health breakdowns after killing a family when the driver decided to run the gate. I saw a TV show once where they did a ride along and there were people running the gates constantly, and the guy was just saying "He's cutting it close - if he had any trouble at all, he'd be dead and we couldn't do a thing about it."
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So you observed the bus pulling out and across the lanes and chose to continue rather than slow and perhaps take 30 seconds to let him clear?
And if you were going 25 mph you would have passed him and been long gone before he could start honking. Why do people always seem to embellish their speed? |
Originally Posted by dobber
(Post 7143997)
So you observed the bus pulling out and across the lanes and chose to continue rather than slow and perhaps take 30 seconds to let him clear?
And if you were going 25 mph you would have passed him and been long gone before he could start honking. Why do people always seem to embellish their speed? |
Originally Posted by dobber
(Post 7143997)
So you observed the bus pulling out and across the lanes and chose to continue rather than slow and perhaps take 30 seconds to let him clear?
And if you were going 25 mph you would have passed him and been long gone before he could start honking. Why do people always seem to embellish their speed? |
Originally Posted by shubonker
(Post 7135461)
So i'm riding home today and i see a bus closing its doors in front of me about 20 yards away. He doesn't signal and starts going into the middle lane REALLY slow because its a red light (its a 3 lane st). As he's about half way pass the right lane i begin passing him at about 25mph and and hes starts honking away at me even after i've passed him. I counted maybe 10-15 honks.
If I were in his position I would have signaled and waited for you to yield. You yield, I pull out and usually flash my 4-ways to thank you. No yield - fine, you're breaking the law, but I'm not going to force the issue and endanger your life. Again - that's the law in Washington. I suspect it is similiar in many areas of the country. |
Originally Posted by Sirrus Rider
(Post 7136342)
Most of the drivers aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.
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Originally Posted by Indie
(Post 7142373)
Around here the bus drivers are pretty smart, but they have to put up with an awful lot of really stupid pedestrians, so they can get impatient. We're here moaning to each other about the stupidity of other people on the road, right? I'll bet bus drivers do the same.
I will agree with you that it's far more important to not argue with physics, regardless of the driver's intelligence. A smart driver can't stop a bus any faster than a dumb one. RE: Smart driver not stopping faster: A smart driver can't stop any faster. However, we do generally have better mind reading skills. (Hmmm... That car looks like he wants to turn right in front of me) The thing that irritates me about people cutting things close, or cutting me off is that they are counting on me to either be perfect (I try - but my wife constantly reminds me that I'm not) or to slow down to allow for their illegal and dangerous maneuver. Remember that the bus is carrying a lot of passengers and that the drivers need to worry about their safety as well as yours. |
Originally Posted by shubonker
(Post 7135914)
Yea maybe in toronto
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