Monday 1st August 2011

Queue-Jumping, Russian Bus Driver-Style

Why public transport in Britain might not be so bad after all...

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If you feel you've had a troublesome trudge into work this morning, spare a thought for, well, anybody involved in this incident in Russia.

We're not sure if the bus driver is late, drunk, on the run from the police, or simply having a bad day, but the result is that he refuses to wait for the traffic in the queue and simply barges his way through oncoming traffic. Which is one way to beat a traffic jam, we suppose.

We don't know what happens to the bus after it goes out of the frame, but judging by the way a few people run to the right in the direction the bus has gone, we wonder if its mission of destruction continues off camera...

 

[Fetchez la vache]

when you gotta go, you gotta go...

[Hellbound]

Typical.

You wait ages for a bus, and then one rams you off the road.

[anonymous-user]

I wonder if he got BUSted later on

[hesnotthemessiah]

The person in the tranny van soon caught on.

[trickywoo]

Thats no way to conduct yourself.

[Denorth]

I checked Russian news - says that 7 cars were damaged, seems like he didn't smash any others apart from those we see
There is even a suggestion that it was his first time in a bus after riding a motorbike

[Mr Whippy]

A very BUSy junction

[7mike]

So who has priority at a completely unsigned Russian T-junction?

[Riggers]

Oh, by the way I meant to say: anybody who makes a Speed joke automatically gets a .
Unless it's actually funny .

[Stu R]

In Soviet Russia, bus catches YOU.

[Riggers]

^ Or 'Soviet Russia' jokes

[7mike]

Riggers said:

^ Or 'Soviet Russia' jokes

What about Rushin bus driver jokes?

[Denorth]

7mike said:

So who has priority at a completely unsigned Russian T-junction?

it is not what I was told in Russian driving school, but apparently - The Biggest Bus

[LukeSi]

Riggers said:

Oh, by the way I meant to say: anybody who makes a Speed joke automatically gets a .
Unless it's actually funny .

Well that explains why he didn't stop then.

Riggers was running behind the bus with a .

[car95]

"There is even a suggestion that it was his first time in a bus after riding a motorbike"

[rockymount]

BUSt video I’ve seen in a long time . Are you sure the bus driver isn’t English and use to having a totally deserted bus lane to drive up every day !!!

[mike oxard]

Maybe he heard Bob crow was coming over and he was late for a strike?

[X5TUU]

7mike said:

What about Rushin bus driver jokes?

i did actually LOL at that... gotta love them crazy soviets!

[sidaorb]

Forget about the bus, see the woman in the white skirt running faster than a transit, guess thats the Olympic gold sprint medal to Russia next year.

[KrazyIvan]

And this differs from the typical London bus driver how?