Lausanne Buses

Should put on record my observations on the city buses here. The buses run on electricity through overhead cable. Hence, they follow special lanes. On nights, these buses shorten (as do the trains) - by cutting short one of the two boggies. Even then there had been quite a few times, when I was the only passenger on board. Today, there was an accident on the road between a bus and car. bumber to bumber really. But, the vehicles had stopped on road, and 2 policemen were taking pictures with a digital camera. As our bus could not follow the lane, the driver came out, pulled down the rod which connects the bus to the overhead wire, and drove around the lane in petrol. Got to the other side, came down again to put back the rod to the wire. Had seen the same thing being done in Kolkata in the trams too. But, by quite a few people there. Here, just one driver, cum conductor, cum repairman. Swiss efficiency, huh !