The fact I was forced to take evasive action (and I was well under the speed limit) means that it was not clear for him to proceed.
1. My apologies in advance if my tone or content cause offence.
2. As already stated, I would have been annoyed too, if I were the cyclist (with caveats).
3. The cyclist has my sympathy anyway.
4. Now the part that may make the apology necessary:
First, in the quoted passage above, BenB brings the speed limit into the equation. I am not writing this as a tub-thumper, but I have lost count of the number of car drivers who've said to me after an incident "I was well under the speed limit". It's a limit, not a target speed. I see the point you were making, but even on a bicycle (with no legal requirement to comply) the
"I was under the speed limit" argument can hit all the wrong notes.
Secondly, I think there may be a connection here to a thread about the benefit of experience driving and riding other vehicles. Had the cyclist in the video had some experience driving larger, rigid vehicles around urban environments, I pretty much guarantee he would have spotted the situation the bus was in, spotted the indicator, seen that it was waiting and waved it on.
He didn't have to. He had every right to sail on in the confidence that he had priority, which he did. Fair enough.
That's not to say that
everyone who cycles and drives trucks/buses is lovely (our experiences every day tell us that there are some beastly road users)... But I'm pretty certain that someone who knew what it was like to negotiate those streets in a 52-seat bus would have relented.
BenB, if you are a PSV or HGV driver, I partially withdraw that potentially incendiary post.