Dear Editor,

I posed Roxanne Hooper's question about bus stop locations [Relocate bus stops, for safety sake, Sept. 25 Looking In, Langley Advance] to my husband, who is a bus driver.

He suspects bus stops are intentionally positioned after intersections, as a safety concern.

Let's face it, nobody likes to get stuck behind a bus - they are too big to see around, they are loud and noisy, and they are slow-moving when they do move. Drivers get impatient and routinely cut around just to get in front of a bus.

My husband surmises that, if bus stops were positioned before intersections, there could be some impatient driver needing to make a right hand turn at the intersection who might jut out in the left-hand lane, speed up in order to pass the bus, then cut in front of the bus again to make the turn, all before the light turns red and/or the bus reaches the intersection first.

Now imagine if the bus driver had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting the right-turning vehicle - with a bus load of passengers.

And unlike vehicles, buses don't have seatbelts!

Christine Hengen, Maple Ridge