Smush, smush, smush went the taxi
By adamg - 3/20/13 - 6:06 pm
Keith Richard snapped this photo of the bus he'd been on and a taxi in Kendall Square around 5:45 p.m.:
This cab just pulled in front of the CT2 I was riding at Kendall. Bus braked, we all went flying.
Alex Wheeler, also on the bus, reported no injuries, but, naturally, rush-hour traffic quickly backed up as a result.
Comments
Cabbies and bus drivers. The
Cabbies and bus drivers. The two worst types of drivers in the city.
And the third is school bus
And the third is school bus drivers. Funny, innit, that our worst drivers are the "professionals"?
It's not that they're the worst...
They're just the most aggresive. Their job is to get people places, and to do so fast. They have routes to maintain and schedules to keep, but so many potential wrenches that can get thrown in the gears.
The actual worst drivers just drive 10MPH, don't know what they're doing, and you get mad at them, but its almost impossible to actually hit them when they keep you crawling behind them.
Thanks for a laff
"They have routes to maintain and schedules to keep." Yeah, sure! If there's one thing that comes to mind when you think of the MBTA's bus service, it's obsessiveness about scheduling! After all, when it's 15 degrees out on a weekend and you're heading out to the bus stop, the one thing you can count on is that there's no chance your bus will possibly be more than five minutes late. And the idea that they might skip an entire run and leave you standing out in the cold for 20-40 minutes (depending on the route) is literally inconceivable.
Saw a cabbie nearly do this last week
To the bus I was riding. Short stop saved us. Driver called out "everyone OK?"
Taxis have done this to me so
Taxis have done this to me so many times when I was on a bicycle. Hope the bus is ok.
If the road didn't have the
If the road didn't have the raised median, other buses wouldn't have gotten stuck behind this accident.