So two Bus incidents this morning.
First I saw just after posting a DVD back through Vogue Video's door on Clerk Street. I was walking towards it and the pedestrian crossing (next to Marmaris Kebab shop) was changing to red, a Lothian bus in the bus lane was pulling up when suddenly he started honking his horn loads and loads. Suddenly from the other side of him a big yellow foreign tour bus screeches to a halt, a second later it'd have flattened some poor pedestrians crossing the street. Bus clearly hadn't seen the Red and was going to plow through. So good Awareness Lothian bus driver.
Second incident I don't think I was in the wrong but perhaps someone could enlighten me.
Cycling down the bottom part of lothian road. There is the filter lane into rutland square on the left. Stationary traffic in the right hand lane so I'm cycling down the side of the stationary traffic (stationary I assume because of red lights) I am perhaps 10 yards from the turn off to rutland square, a bus is next to me, stationary with a tonne of space to fit through to carry on up and around to princes street. I can't see past the bus so assume it's stopped because there's traffic. As I come up to the front of it I slam on the brakes because the bus is stopped to let a taxi cross into rutland street having just come round from Charlotte Square. TAxi driver gave me some right evils.
So was I in the wrong?
IMO - the bus driver should never have waved the taxi driver into what is (I think?) clearly NOT a legal turn.
There was no chance of a bus turning left and loads of space to get past and ahead.
BUT I suppose this may count as travelling down the left side of a big vehicle? Thoughts?
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