a mere second away from becoming pancake

[Blueberry]

I'm really getting ticked at the bus drivers 'round here. I've seen about 4 run red (not yellow) lights recently. I've almost been hit on my bike and as a pedestrian by more than one. I know everybody's under lots of stress right now, but geez....please remember you're driving a huge vehicle.

CA

[badger]

yeah, those buses are horrible. If they're not running reds, they're blocking the intersection. Sometimes they don't even "run" reds, they just mosey through like they own the road. Grr

I almost got run over at a very busy intersection by a bus hell bent on turning right - I was walking my bike as it's very heavy with pedestrian traffic. I admit I was on a blinking red hand signal, but I still had the right of way but this eh-hole decided that he's going to turn right regardless. I banged on the side of the bus as it certainly was going to hit me. The driver jumped out and started throwing a hissy fit and yelling holy h3ll.

I wrote to them about that one, too, and and all they did was "oh, so sorry". The response I got for this fracas was basically them saying "oh, so sorry, we'll conduct our own investigation but due to the nature of it being internal, we can't tell you what we find". Translation: we're not going to bother.

Grog: it's a small pedestrian-controlled light at Princess and Prior. I hate crossing that street, it's like playing Frogger.

[uforgot]

Time to step it up then. Surely there are others you can write! The city? Department of transportation? The local police? Local bike advocacy? Sounds like something needs to be done before someone is seriously hurt, car or bike!

[Grog]

I could dig out the name of the guy at Translink that took care of my complaint last fall. Really nice guy.

This being said, though, they effectively cannot tell you about the outcome, and they won't no matter what. But in some cases they'll talk to the driver, especially if it looks like the manoeuvre was intentional.