Double_B

Had just dropped off the kids at their grandparents, wife and I are off to work. I am at Hickory and HWY 2 at the lights waiting for it to change. So the lights turn green, I start out. Usually I will just go, but I hesitated and caught the bus in my peripheral vision, doesn't look like it's slowing down, and its not like he is trying to beat the yellow because it has alreay been red on his side for a few seconds already. Buddy just blazes through the light! I hit the brakes and blow my horn. He didn't flinch, just went on his merry way. I was so pissed the whole way to work. Wife was upset and glad nothing happened and glad the kids weren't with us.

So I call Whitby Transit, tell them what happened, what time and the bus number and where it happened. They tell me they will make a report. They take my work and home number and say someone will be getting in contact with me.

If I don't hear from them within a week, I am sure as hell calling them back!

imported_kIeRaN

man, i diont know whats up with people, i always stop when i see a yellow, even if i have time to make it. Just seems like risky business to me. Glad to here youre alrite and didnt egt smoked by that bus

Nova_Dust

Brian, let's invite that driver to a KBBQ and when his guard is off, let's cook his face on the grill.

Double_B

But that's the thing, his yellow was long gone, he was totally oblivious to what was going on. There was even a car in the other lane stopped well before the bus even got to the intersection!

Double_B

LOL

BBProductions

we almost go rammed by a go-bus in hamilton last week...

imported_Shazza

glad to hear ure ok. wow, good call on calling the transit...i wouldve never thought to do that.

imported_JookSingKid

a week! if they don't get back to you tomorrow, give them a call!

goddam union workers!

bbarbulo

iTrader: (2)

ahhh yes, peripheral vision is my best friend. so good y0!

glad to hear nothing happend to you and your family B, and I hope you get a satisfactory result out of it all... in whatever way that may be. - maybe an apology?

anyways, the worst is travelling on the 401 at night... and I mean like between 1-5 AM weekdays especially. there is nothing but truckers doing like 140 and you are but a zit on the face of the planet as far as they are concerned. I mean, they roll up on your bumper like 6 feet away doing 140 (and I'm doing a 100 which is prolly why this happens to me all the time) and then swerve around you as if your were an intruder. then I had one guy in a construction zone (80 limit) so I was doing 80, and there were like 10 trucks behind me by the time we were done going through. So 9 trucks pass me and keep going at crazy speeds, and this one truck decides to get behind me at like 3 feet away, throw his highbeams on and follow me for a good period of time going 100. so first exit I see, I get in the off ramp lane, and the ****er waits to watch me exit (he slowed down to like 50). the second he passes me I swerve back onto the highway and he SLAMS on his brakes and puts on his reverse spotlights.

anyways knowing trucks are limited to 70 mph, I figure **** this idiot, so I passed him and when I got enough distance, I just kept 70 mph pace so he couldn't close the gap. that was the first time in years I was speeding, all cuz of some *******.

imported_Shazza

holy **** batman! sam's alive!

Double_B

You know what? You are right! I will be calling them tomorrow to see what is being done.

Yeah Bruno, I don't expect much, but an apology is good enough I guess. I just couldn't let that go by without doing something, I haven't been that angry in so long!

Shar, that was the first thing that came to my mind after the ranting I did in the car on the way to work. Once I calmed down, sort of, I felt the need to do something about it and that just came to mind, calling the transit and complaining.

CivicGurl

Good that you were able to get the bus number and all that. I was driving into work and was making a right hand turn on a green light. A TTC bus was making a left hand turn onto the same road I was turning onto. He decided that he was more important and turned directly into the right hand lane (that I was turning into) towards the side of my car (I was almost around the corner). If I hadn't hit the brakes, he would have taken me out. I did read the number of the bus and tried to remember it (I couldn't find any paper - I carry it & a pen with me in the car at all times now), but by the time I got up to my desk, I had forgotten it. Everytime I see a bus there now, I keep a really close eye on it.

Younes Si

From my experiences, buses and 18 wheelers and people with Trucks think that they can do whatever they want for some stupid reason

SiR_88crx

ur lucky man u saw him coming or that might have been the end for u

SiR_88crx

let one of the newspaper know too if they dont

Gunmetalef

bus drivers think they own the road

imported_Hybridtheory

theres a bylaw in toronto now that says you have to yield to TTC buses

and a good 75% of them will cut you off without looking because of that

imported_redeYelove

Raise Hell Double B!! Glad to hear you're alright though. Stay on it too, because most of those bus drivers think they own the road. Don't let them get away with it, we need more people reporting these fools. Hopefully they have someone who cares for the public handling these types of issues, if not, then it'll be a slap on the wrist... if even that.

imported_Dawson

i dont know if you notice this lately brian but whitby transit drivers are complete *** holes ive been cut off and almost hit so many times lately anyone else feel the same. they take that yeild to a bus law alittle too far

J

ya that new bylaw is the worst, i never really minded bus drivers before, but now they're number 2 on my list...right behind ****** *** taxi drivers

i'm just gonna start carrying a paint ball gun around with me, and one cuts me off....out it comes, just one shot, nothing crazy