Two items to report, both from the Bus Station in Newton Abbot. One happened last night. The local teenagers decided to add a little excitement to their other wise dull and boring lives by climbing over the railings on the footbridge and dropping down onto the roof of the bus below. I don't expect they were trying to get a free ride some where because the only other bridge we go under is the one at the bottom of Belgrave Road in Torquay and we tend to go under it at 30 mph. If they were going to get off there they would have to time their jump just right or the word would definitely have been splatter.
The second incident gave me much more satisfaction. There are signs at both ends of the bus station which state that there is No Entry to any vehicle except buses and bikes. But as I have mentioned here before nothing is ever done about the hundreds of cars and vans that use the road as a race track every day. Until to day. I was waiting time and a white car drove through at at least 30 mph. Now we have a 10 mph speed limit as there are lots of people crossing the road, mostly passengers and we wouldn't want to wipe out any passengers, would we . Then I saw him stop. Then I saw a policeman walk up to the drivers window. By the time I drove out he had reached the paper work stage. At least a £60.00 fine and 3 points on the license. 12 points and you have to learn how to catch the bus. Keep up the good work, boys in blue.
A footnote on a post about the car for sale. If you wanted to buy it, sorry its gone. Maybe the owner read the blog and took it home to fix it. Or maybe someone reading the blog decided that is was just what he wanted. It was a bit of a shock today as I drove past Oldway and it wasn't there, a bit like losing an old friend. Still there are two more in its place.
Rained a lot today, windy too. Autumn is on its way.
7 comments:
Hi Dave. Just to let you know that I read your blogs.
I understand your satifaction at the 'boys in blue' today. Good work huh?
Dave (N.Z.) (I'm Dave too)
You may like to know how we have started to do things back up here in Manchester:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/
news/s/225/225933_
drivers_lose_the_bollards_battle.html
You will need to stitch the 3 bits together. I don't know how to make a proper link!
You can see from the comments it has it's supporters!
S
So how on earth did you get the local peasantry off the bus roof then (or did you manage to stop them getting on) ???
As regards bus stations my experience has been that motorists tend to lose their enthusiasm for venturing where they shouldn't when they've had a Olympian up their j****y - our nightmare accident waiting to happen is pedestrians (especially crowds of schoolchildren) blithely wandering across the bus station apron between the reversing buses - we've got signs up, used bollards and even had a friendly local PCSO intercepting them when possible, but still they WILL do it...
Only just got the time to access the Manchester Evening News link in the comment two above. Wonderful. Vive les bollards! If only there were a pedestrian version... (imagine a mini bollard up the nostril ... or worse...)
Thats what we need in fleet walk that would solve a lot of problems and i would sit there all day and watch all those b*****s that should not be there after 10am getting speared by bollards
Yeah, what is it about invincible pedestrians? My pet hate is when they stroll across the road against the lights, see a bus coming, and glare.
Roses, we had a truck driver did that recently. he tried to overtake the bus going round a corner and didn't realise it needed so much room to get round.
He gave our driver a hell of a dirty look. I had the urge to give him the finger, but I think I was the only person on the bus that had noticed it, so it wouldn't have gone down too well.
All the buses here have a sign on the back that says, do not overtake turning vehicle. In fact, any vehicle over 7.5m does.
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