Is the driver of public transport performing regular passenger transportation allowed to stop at the given place for the purpose of boarding passengers?

Explanation

Prohibited.

Stopping closer than 5 metres to pedestrian-crossing markings is prohibited, and the yellow arrows in the picture show that the bus is only 3 metres from the crossing. Picking up passengers creates no exception, and the driver of a public-transport vehicle is not exempt from this rule either.

The important point is that a public-transport vehicle has the right to stop only at designated stops. The blue pedestrian sign beside the road and the yellow markings on the carriageway have allocated this point to a crossing, not to a stop.

Judge the safety reason by the bus's dimensions: its long, tall body acts like a wall across the view. A pedestrian entering the crossing from behind the bus is invisible to the driver in the adjacent lane until the last moment — and that is exactly the pattern that ends in severe pedestrian accidents. When the bus is also setting down and picking up passengers, a crowd of passengers immediately surges towards the crossing and the situation gets worse.

Worth memorising: tie the figure 5 metres to the pedestrian crossing. Whenever you see any figure below 5 in a picture, the answer will be "prohibited".

• Being a public-transport vehicle looks at first glance like an advantage, but these vehicles too may stop only at designated stops and have no special permission near a pedestrian crossing.

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