International Bus Driver Demolition Derby and Cage Match
The bus drivers in Puerto Vallarta are beyond insane. In fact, I’d stack them up against Portland, Oregon Tri-met drivers any day of the week. Not only do the bus drivers here ignore things like lanes, traffic signals and other drivers, but most of the time when I see them, they are smoking, chatting with their passengers or simply staring out the window into space in a direction other than the road. Today I saw one plow into the side of a truck because he couldn’t make his turn sharply enough.
You might notice that when people pull up to an intersection, say at a red light, they stop really far back from the line. This is because this poor truck driver was not the first person to lose a bumper or a door due to a bus driver needing to take up both sides of the street and part of the sidewalk to turn a corner. If you value your car, you’ll start stopping a few blocks back as well.
Tri-met bus drivers in Portland are mean and arrogant and aggressive, but they don’t hold a candle to Puerto Vallarta, voted the surliest bus drivers in the world by a survey of me. You might think that the prayers painted in the bus windows or the bumper are for the bus driver and passengers but they are really for you. If you are close enough to read this, you should be praying.
