mattpeski
Hi MHD Team
I would like to complain about your drivers behavior, specially in respect to cyclist.
Can you please teach your drivers how to respect cyclist and how to pass the cyclist in save distance !!!
The driver on the picture (BL 147JX) No. 70 (2226) on Wed 03 April 2019 7:40 passed me with high speed just after Slovnaftska/Kazanska junction with the distance of less than 20cm!!! just to stop 100m away on the Slovnaftská bus stop!!! I almost was pushed away by the bus which could end up with catastrophic fail.
Can you please take my complain into serious consideration, as this is very serious issue and could end up with fatal injure, specially when cycling season is starting.
Can you please teach your drivers how to respect cyclist and how to pass the cyclist in save distance !!!
Regards
Matt
I would like to complain about your drivers behavior, specially in respect to cyclist.
Can you please teach your drivers how to respect cyclist and how to pass the cyclist in save distance !!!
The driver on the picture (BL 147JX) No. 70 (2226) on Wed 03 April 2019 7:40 passed me with high speed just after Slovnaftska/Kazanska junction with the distance of less than 20cm!!! just to stop 100m away on the Slovnaftská bus stop!!! I almost was pushed away by the bus which could end up with catastrophic fail.
Can you please take my complain into serious consideration, as this is very serious issue and could end up with fatal injure, specially when cycling season is starting.
Can you please teach your drivers how to respect cyclist and how to pass the cyclist in save distance !!!
Regards
Matt
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Ike
to begin with, I am sorry for what has happened to you. Buses are considerably heavier vehicles than bicycles and thus in case of possible collision, the cyclist is the one at a disadvantage. Needless to say that it is not pleasant at all.
Unfortunately, this site is just a fun site only. Some of us indeed work in the transport field and some even in the company that operates public passenger transport in Bratislava. We often pass this information to drivers or at least to their supervisors, but even professional drivers are just drivers. If you insist on your complaint, please compose an e-mail with respective attachments (the photos you have sent here) and send it here: vnutorna.kontrola@dpb.sk. Do not forget to include all the details regarding the driver and their vehicle.
I doubt it is plausible to completely prevent all drivers from doing this. When I bike through the bus stop, I always check on the situation behind me, especially whether there is no PPT vehicle approaching. If yes I either speed up to leave the stop for the vehicle or slow down, even stop to let the vehicle serve the stop seamlessly. After all, cycling is an individual transport mode as well.
Best wishes.