This happens when the busses lose their pheromone trail and follow each other until they die of exhaustion.

“no way to prevent this” says only transportation authority where this routinely happens

An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. This circle is commonly known as a “death spiral” because the ants might eventually die of exhaustion.

Hahahahahaha oh man I’d be so mad

“So this isn’t the first time this has happened in this city? Hm. I wonder where this i–” [notices Ruter logo on the bus] “–oh.”

Doom loop of misery and plunging trust

awww they’re protecting the cars from all the angry traffic

🎵I’ll be the roundabout
The words will make you out-and-out
I spend the day (in) your way🎵

I always wondered why that song was 8.5 minutes long…

Also, I love the frequency of examples that arise in car infrastructure where “everyone seeking their own local and immediate ‘best’” results in hilariously bad situations like this. Then we’re still expected to take that stance seriously in economics

I guess bus drivers aren’t very good at the snake game

3 bus maximum, folks. Come on.

Dont laugh buses only do this when they’re extremely distressed

we call this a DEADLOCK.

Looks like some civil engineers need to watch a Factorio train tutorial smh, roundabout 101

This is real and happened today, (in Norwegian) https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/3pkoP9/busser-fast-paa-alexander-kiellands-plass-i-oslo

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