(30 Mar 2015, 10:18 am)Jimmi wrote The right break light was working but the left wasn't.
Also this is one issue with taxis doing "bus" services is that people will get out wherever they want, so the two passengers who are alighting couldn't be bothered to wait until the bus could pull up somewhere safe and got out there, or the GCT driver told them to get out there.
I find taxis being allocated to bus services no matter how many passengers it carries to be totally wrong as you could easily let the "bus" go past as you see a taxi coming towards you so you naturally assume it is a taxi because all there is to identify it is that service is a few white stickers with the Nexus Buses logo on with the service number. Also in a taxi people can open the doors where they want (unless they are locked) so people could think this is close enough I'll get out here and may potentially get out somewhere dangerous.
I have often let taxibuses pass, not realising it was a taxibus, until it was too late.
However, to give the driver his/her due, the light could have popped at any stage of the journey.
It is still an offence, but providing they were working when the pre-drive checks were done, then the driver would have no reason to think they had popped.
It happens to all of the operators.
Doors in those sorts of vehicles are generally controlled by the driver, with the release mechanism operated at the drivers volition.