Showing that not even a few deaths will get in the way of the path of public transport, a local council in Sydney's West has finished re-establishing a link in the armour of chugging buses.
The link, in this case, is a bus stop. Situated near a golf course, the actual point is alongside a busy highway. Making the transition from high speed running to the dead stop alighting/boarding of passengers is made more difficult given that there is no inlet bay for buses to pull into. As such, vehicles trailing a bus have to keep a keen eye on the back lights in the event that it may pull over to the sounds of dings and cord pulls.
Two years ago the bus stop played an open house to a grisly scene of a hazardous death. On one heavily wet afternoon amidst a flurry of traffic, an approaching bus skidded and ploughed into the bus stop killing the potential passengers. Covering the highway in an awesome pool of familial blood the traffic was halted for hours as medics arrived hurriedly in vain to the corpses dragged metres from the location.
No one knows what happened to the driver of the stained coffin convictor but it's certain that there's more to driving than just passing a theoretical examination.
Written on Wednesday, 18 June 2003