This post is addressed to those car drivers who never let the bus out.

From the latest edition of the Highway Code.
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Buses, coaches and trams. Give priority to these vehicles when you can do so safely, especially when they signal to pull away from stops. Look out for people getting off a bus or tram and crossing the road.

This replaces the some what wishy washy, "Please let the bus out if safe to do so." That was a request, not an instruction which you, and the hundred drivers behind you could totally ignore without a care in the world. Now it is an instruction, it says, Give priority if safe. So if you are a 100 metres back from the bus waiting to pull away from a bus stop, you must give way because it is safe to do so. If a car is travelling at 30 mph (14 metres per second) it will take 7 seconds to travel 100 metres, lift of the accelerator and that time increases to 10 seconds, plenty of time for a bus to pull out and accelerate to 30 mph. For some reason car drivers think they are holding the bus driver up if they don't let the bus out. No they are not, they are holding up the passengers on the bus. Hold them up for long enough and they will all get fed up of how long bus journeys take and go out and buy a car. That would put thousands of more cars on the road and that is just in Torquay alone. The roads would become car parks. Do you want that? No! Well get used to letting us out.