Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Reckless busdrivers

We Finns have a modern proverb which says: ""Väinö Paunu - liikenteen kauhu". In english it means: "Väinö Paunu - horror of the traffic". It refers to Väinö Paunu Ltd and it's an old joke - but so true. And it's not only those express bus drivers who drive overspeed. For example some of the drivers of Valkeakosken Liikenne achieve the same speeds. Or what do you say about driving 85 km/h in the 50 km/h limit area? In the 80 km/h speed limit area the "best" result so far is 109 km/h. Still, Väinö Paunu is probably even worse; when a local bus drove 93 km/h in the 80 km/h limit area, the expressbuss bypassed it recklessly.

So do the busdrivers have to follow the timetables, even they could kill themselves and passengers? It's interesting also that Finnish Police does not seem to never stop these madcaps. Or does the police bend the law? One of the drivers of Valkeakosken Liikenne told that police has never stopped him, nor he has ever heard that police had stopped any of their company's drivers...

By the way, it's very easy to follow the speed of bus with GPS receiver. It's an incorruptible speed measurement method...

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's true, I have noticed the same and it is not only those two companies, it seems be a nation-wide problem.