37380 - MX58DWL - First Bus: One Bad Apple
Channel: Bicycle-Riding Motorist
Date: 30/08/2011

This evening (30th August 2011, approx 5.40pm).

Yes, this is the same bus as my earlier post; this is from later in the journey. Something must have happened to change him as he went through Farnworth.

The first pass was the worst thing. I stay in primary position here because the road is a mess to the left, and anyway the lane isn't wide enough to share. The driver doesn't seem to understand this. I do believe the crappy, narrow, pot-hole riddled "cycle lane" on the left may have contributed to this disgraceful behaviour.

At the second encounter, knowing that he was going to pull into the bus stop, he should have hung back and come in behind me rather than coming alongside and squeezing me off the road into the works entrance.

The third encounter I probably wouldn't have posted on its own, but it was rather close and is part of a pattern of behaviour that is unacceptable.

I still hold out hope that things have improved, and this shouldn't detract from all the good First Bus drivers I've encountered recently.