On 06/13/2017 12:59 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

The only difference is they stop at railroad crossings but there
aren't that
many.

Surely cars do too?! Or you'd get mown down by the train.

No, they stop at railroad crossings. Period. It doesn't matter if there
is a train within 50 miles. I drove a school bus for several months and
with those you also had to open the door, presumably so you didn't
overlook an EMD power unit.


Other than that I've never been inconvenienced by being behind a
bus. They aren't the lumbering landmarks that the AEC Routemasters or
the Boris Buses are.

Actually I get stuck behind old people in Hyundais just as often.

There is that. I am particularly annoyed by those who can't get off the
line when a light goes to green. I don't mean that they slept through
the change. They start on the signal and accelerate like a snail on
thorazine.