I've mentioned before that probably my greatest driving "hate" on the road are the vehicles that suddenly pull into the bus lane without so much as a glance or any signal, to avoid the 10 second delay it would cause if they sat behind the vehicle in the car lane waiting to turn thereby blocking the lane.
I've also noted that on "my patch", it usually happens westbound at the bus stop on the bridge at Roseburn, where cars queue to turn up the hill.
Today the miscreant was a Lothian and Borders Police van. Not under blues and twos so not on an emergency call. It wasn't how close he was that troubled me, it's the fact that it was a Police van doing this. TWICE! What hope do we have if even the standards of Police driving are lazy enough to pull this maneouver (that has nearly taken me off my bike dozens of times). Well if the Police driver thinks its acceptable then I thought "probably not". Normally it's taxi drivers (who at the very least are allowed to use the lane (debatable in my opinion)) or dozy commuters. Today it was the law. If it had been the usual four-bee-four pulling the move, infront of the Police van, would they have switche don the flashers and hauled the offender over for a stern talking to?
Not good enough in my opinion and I was thinking of writing to L&B (I have the vehicle registration) to complain. Should I trouble myself?
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