worst road users

[not-bono-ever]

*Just 5 minutes*
*I have put my hazards on*

 

[The Boy]

On a road near where I work there's a school. There are double yellow lines on both sides, as well as signs all the way along the school's fence specifically asking parents not to park or wait there.

Therefore obviously it's a pandemonium of parked and waiting cars, every school day.

We live down a narrow side street with a school on it, and early mornings and afternoons are hilarious as idiots fight over very little road space so little Timothy and Tarquina don't have to walk more than 20m to the school gates. The fact that they could just as easily park out on the main(ish) road and have their little precious walk 50-100m across the park they will be playing on before class anyway seems lost on them.

Though after two days of being back on the bike, may I nominate:

a) Faux-by-four drivers - Vauxhall Mokkas, and the like. All the entitlement of a 4x4 wanker, with the added insecurity that what they have isn't a *proper* 4x4.
b) Students. Doesn't matter on the mode of transport - peds, cyclists and drivers have all been acting like twats. Student bus wankers haven't given cause for annoyance recently though.

Obviously confirmation bias, etc. And I'm a student so I'm damning myself (perhaps I should make it students below the age of thirty or summat?) but fuck it, just too much ass-hattery for such a moderately long commute.

 

[The Boy]

*Just 5 minutes*
*I have put my hazards on*

Worse than hitler.

 

[T & P]

That's one area where the US seems to be more enlightened than us. I know they still get plenty of private-car school run traffic, but at least they seem to to run a decent enough network school buses as well.

Given how we beat the US hands down on just about every other mode of public transport, I never got why we can emulate them on school buses.

 

[Dogsauce]

They were running yellow school buses a few years ago in a few places (had them in Leeds) but it seems to have stopped now. Probably austerity bollocks ended it.

 

[rubbershoes]

We still have school buses in Devon.

Maybe we haven't caught up with the fact that they've been scrapped

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Bloody pigeons who waddle around in the road, and don't fly away until the very last second. It's like they're playing Dare.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

That's one area where the US seems to be more enlightened than us. I know they still get plenty of private-car school run traffic, but at least they seem to to run a decent enough network school buses as well.

Given how we beat the US hands down on just about every other mode of public transport, I never got why we can emulate them on school buses.

We have school buses round here too.

In the US it is an offence to pass a school-bus that is stationary, (they have lights that flash to show they're not just parked).

 

[Dieselpunk2000]

Wrexham has(or had) a fleet of genuine American Blue Bird school buses running. I used to see them on my travels around that area in 2004-ish.