Any thoughts?

Call Me Jimmy

I was on the bus this night and a wild thought occurred. Do dublin bus drivers now take a course in gas preservation? E.g. Instead of racing up to the light when it is red they creep their way there and by the time they get near the lights they turn green and the bus doesn't have to make an economically disastrous stop.

I could ask my dad as he was a bus driver, but I don't want to do that (Daddy Issues). So I'm asking you guys.

I'm uncomfortable interacting with my father, okay?

Chris P. Bacon

Whos your daddy!!

Bipolar Joe

I haven't had any thoughts since '97 so I couldn't say.

Chuck Stone

Eco driving for the win \o/

The less you use your brakes the more gooder you are at eco-driving.

Topper Harley

On my rushed way home from work tonight, it occurred to me that I should be slowing down much earlier coming to red lights in order to give them time to change by the time I got there, as my instructor taught me long ago.

But I then realised that this might not work so much any more because of the pressure sensors that are at many lights these days. At them, the quicker you get there, the quicker they change.

I'm sure some* bus drivers factor this into their driving techniques.

* EDIT

Saila

maybe it cause they are using gas and not petrol

Samich

yes they did. Saved them about 20% in fuel costs. No lie.

TouchingVirus

First gear is where most fuel is used usually, energy required to get a heavy non-moving object moving and all that. Kinda like an airplane using large amounts of fuel to get itself off the runway. Only makes sense then that it'd be more efficent. Also, the stop/start thing really gets annoying as a driver, never mind a passenger on a bus. Crawling toward a red light, hoping it changes to green can also prevent "traffic wave" traffic jams

Micky Dolenz

TouchingVirus wrote: »

First gear is where most fuel is used usually, energy required to get a heavy non-moving object moving and all that. Kinda like an airplane using large amounts of fuel to get itself off the runway. Only makes sense then that it'd be more efficent. Also, the stop/start thing really gets annoying as a driver, never mind a passenger on a bus. Crawling toward a red light, hoping it changes to green can also prevent "traffic wave" traffic jams

You've sold it to me, where do I sign?

TouchingVirus

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

You've sold it to me, where do I sign?

Why do you hurt my feelings?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

I was on the bus this night and a wild thought occurred. Do dublin bus drivers now take a course in gas preservation? E.g. Instead of racing up to the light when it is red they creep their way there and by the time they get near the lights they turn green and the bus doesn't have to make an economically disastrous stop.

I could ask my dad as he was a bus driver, but I don't want to do that (Daddy Issues). So I'm asking you guys.

I'm uncomfortable interacting with my father, okay?

Perhaps things have changes, but my experience of Dublin Bus drivers where that they slowed down approaching green lights in the hope that they could stop and delay people?

Sanity_Saviour

I really don't think bus drivers put that much effort into their driving more along the lines of "I wish those damn kids would turn down the music"

MistyCheese

I was on the 16 about a month or so ago and the driver stopped outside Couglan's Centra by Harold Cross Park. He went into the Centra and got himself an ice cream!

:mad: your ice-cream I want to get home. Cheeky bollox.

Saila

Sanity_Saviour wrote: »

I really don't think bus drivers put that much effort into their driving more along the lines of "I wish those damn kids would turn down the music"

more how much can I accelerate to knock anyone standing on the bus over and break anyones neck who are sitting down, and cripple the most peoples spines when coming up to speed bumps :mad:

prics dont realise we dont have the same seats as them

Kojak

MistyCheese wrote: »

I was on the 16 about a month or so ago and the driver stopped outside Couglan's Centra by Harold Cross Park. He went into the Centra and got himself an ice cream!

:mad: your ice-cream I want to get home. Cheeky bollox.

Maybe you should have asked him to get you one as well...

Micky Dolenz

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Why do you hurt my feelings?

I meant it. hugz?

Chuck Stone

MistyCheese wrote: »

the driver stopped outside Couglan's Centra by Harold Cross Park. He went into the Centra and got himself an ice cream

I remember being on a bus late for work when the bus stopped at a bus stop just outside the bus depot (Cork City, Capwell Rd).

The driver came back to the bus ten minutes later with his hair brushed and a cup of tea.

Not one **** did he give the costed evil socialist.

MistyCheese

Kojak wrote: »

Maybe you should have asked him to get you one as well...

I didn't want an ice-cream. I just wanted to get home. Unfortunately that depended on the bus driver doing his job and driving the bus. I wouldn't like to imagine what my boss would say to me if I randomly left work to buy myself an ice-cream.

Topper Harley

MistyCheese wrote: »

I wouldn't like to imagine what my boss would say to me if I randomly left work to buy myself an ice-cream.

He'd probably ask you to get him one too.

Ghost Estate

Those buses run on Diesel not gas