Blind to Indicators

With a title like today's you'd perhaps think that it will be a rant about other road users not using their indicators. Actually, it's not. It is a humerous observation about passengers hailing a bus.

Don't get me wrong, hailing a bus is NEVER a bad thing - even if you're stood at a bus stop where only 1 bus calls and there are 30 of you stood there - it's just sometimes passengers cannot correlate the gesture of outstretching their arm and what to do with it after that.

What generally happens is that a driver will see a person shove their arm out long before the bus pulls up at the stop. I generally indicate left to show the passenger that I'm aware of their hand gesture and that I will be pulling over. But the majority of people do not put their hand away until the bus is about to hit it.

You'd have thought that, once it was clear the bus was pulling over (the bus indicator is clearly flashing) the passenger would put their arm down, safe in the knowledge that the bus was pulling over. They don't.

I refuse to believe that this is because drivers have driven straight past. This doesn't happen anywhere nearly as often as people would have you believe - especially when the bus driver has indicated to pull over.

Common Sense Solution: I don't think there is the need for one as the passenger is doing the right thing but hailing a bus.