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Post by jrussa on May 17, 2015 10:42:18 GMT
This thread I created is inspired by a recent situation I encountered on Night Bus route, N8. I was travelling from Oxford Circus to Hainault on Route N8 and the bus reached the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street. The light turned green for my bus and the bus driver began to move. All of a sudden an eighteen metre lorry appears on the opposite side of the junction who planned to turn right onto Tottenham Court Road. There was no way in which our bus could fit and based on the fast decision making of my driver decided to left onto Tottenham Court Road, went straight down til Goodge Street Station, turn right onto Chenies Stret, right onto Gower Street, drove until the end of the street, turned right onto St Giles High Street and right onto New Oxford Street to resume routing and prevent the bus from missing the stop on New Oxford Street. This was a 1.1 mile detour, compared to the 0.1 mile journey from Tottenham Court Road Station bus stop to the New Oxford Street bus stop. gb.mapometer.com/running/route_4086110.html (Detour) gb.mapometer.com/running/route_4086113.html (Normal Line of routing) If the driver did not react as quickly and was stubborn, the junction would have been blocked and Oxford Street, New Oxford Street and Charing Cross road would have been clogged up. Therefore, I COMMEND HIM   My question to all of you is, Have you experienced a situation where a bus driver had to react quick to a situation? |
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Post by M1104 on May 17, 2015 12:13:49 GMT
This thread I created is inspired by a recent situation I encountered on Night Bus route, N8. I was travelling from Oxford Circus to Hainault on Route N8 and the bus reached the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street. The light turned green for my bus and the bus driver began to move. All of a sudden an eighteen metre lorry appears on the opposite side of the junction who planned to turn right onto Tottenham Court Road. There was no way in which our bus could fit and based on the fast decision making of my drive,r he decided to left onto Tottenham Court Road, went straight down til Goodge Street Station, turn right onto Chenies Stret, right onto Gower Street, drove until the end of the street, turned right onto St Giles High Street and right onto New Oxford Street to resume routing and prevent the bus from missing the stop on New Oxford Street. This was a 1.1 mile detour, compared to the 0.1 mile journey from Tottenham Court Road Station bus stop to the New Oxford Street bus stop. gb.mapometer.com/running/route_4086110.html (Detour) gb.mapometer.com/running/route_4086113.html (Normal Line of routing) If the driver did not react as quickly and was stubborn, the junction would have been blocked and Oxford Street, New Oxford Street and Charing Cross road would have been clogged up. Therefore, I COMMEND HIM My question to all of you is, Have you experienced a situation where a bus driver had to react quick to a situation? I did something very similar when I used to drive the 49 from Battersea (BB not QB). I was going to turn right from Beaufort Street into the Kings Road but a car had broken down on the junction in such a way that it was physically impossible for the bus to maneuver around whilst turning. Had instead turned left and use the Chelsea Worlds End bus stand to turn around so as to enter Kings Road from how the 11 and 22 do. I could have easily continued along Beaufort Street and use Fulham road (ie the 345 route) but thought to myself that would cause more problems with punters that want Chelsea Old Town Hall or Sydney Street. Apparently the car had such a problem that it couldn't even be pushed. |
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Post by jay38a on May 18, 2015 17:52:55 GMT
This thread I created is inspired by a recent situation I encountered on Night Bus route, N8. I was travelling from Oxford Circus to Hainault on Route N8 and the bus reached the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street. The light turned green for my bus and the bus driver began to move. All of a sudden an eighteen metre lorry appears on the opposite side of the junction who planned to turn right onto Tottenham Court Road. There was no way in which our bus could fit and based on the fast decision making of my driver decided to left onto Tottenham Court Road, went straight down til Goodge Street Station, turn right onto Chenies Stret, right onto Gower Street, drove until the end of the street, turned right onto St Giles High Street and right onto New Oxford Street to resume routing and prevent the bus from missing the stop on New Oxford Street. This was a 1.1 mile detour, compared to the 0.1 mile journey from Tottenham Court Road Station bus stop to the New Oxford Street bus stop. gb.mapometer.com/running/route_4086110.html (Detour) gb.mapometer.com/running/route_4086113.html (Normal Line of routing) If the driver did not react as quickly and was stubborn, the junction would have been blocked and Oxford Street, New Oxford Street and Charing Cross road would have been clogged up. Therefore, I COMMEND HIM My question to all of you is, Have you experienced a situation where a bus driver had to react quick to a situation? I would have got into trouble for doing that at Metrobus. When a car and 492 had got itself into a damage only accident at the end of Longlands Road and Station Road in Sidcup, I had to ask CentreComm if it was alright for me to go ahead Hatherley Crescent swing it round in Sidcup Station then turn left up Station Road. It was just the way they had the accident I just couldn't turn right but could go straight up and left at the junction. |
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Post by slr on May 19, 2015 16:27:09 GMT
I remember when I was driving a 428 once, I forgot I was driving a 428 and went up Crayford High St instead of down Crayford Way. I had to think on my feet and do a 3 point turn at the mini roundabout lol.
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Post by eggmiester on May 20, 2015 0:11:52 GMT
Have done similar many times in the past whilst driving, thing is these days it's a bit harder what with GPS tracking and ibus etc as if a bus misses a stop / stops the driver could be penalised for unofficially going off line of route.
It's different when on occasions a controller has asked a driver to divert to avoid a known delay but the controller will record that instruction on their logs as a curtailment/lost mileage for the section not operated with a reason why they instructed the driver to do so. If CentreComm divert buses they provide a reference number for controllers authorising the instruction.
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Post by allentc on May 21, 2015 12:15:15 GMT
I remember when I was driving a 428 once, I forgot I was driving a 428 and went up Crayford High St instead of down Crayford Way. I had to think on my feet and do a 3 point turn at the mini roundabout lol. Lol, I was on the 219 heading towards Clapham Junction when the driver forgot to turn left on to Trinity Road (by Tooting Bec station). Instead we crossed the lights heading towards Balham. He suddenly realised his error, stopped the bus outside Halfords and expertly reversed it into the opening of the car park to turn it around so that he could turn right at traffic lights to resume the route. |
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