The message clearly hasn't yet sunk in.

It should be obvious to bus drivers that with today's congestion, they need to have their eyes and their full attention on the roads at all times.

As passengers, we put our lives in their hands and expect them to get us to our destination safely.

Yet some are still breaking the rules by talking to colleagues and passengers while the bus is in motion.

We have had the recent high-profile court case, in which driver Paul Willis was found guilty of careless driving and fined for talking while driving when cyclist Emilie Harris fell into the path of his bus and died.

Our reporter Ruth Keeling wrote on Saturday about a driver she had spotted talking at the front of his bus.

Now a driver has been suspended after a passenger reported him for allegedly towing and chatting to a cyclist.

What is going on? Don't bus drivers understand basic rules?

All buses carry notices telling passengers that they should not talk to the driver while the bus is moving unless there is an emergency.

Staff need to be told that the warning applies equally to them, whether they are on or off duty, and that there will be dire consequences if they ignore it.

Drivers should beware - even if they haven't got the message, passengers have, and will not hesitate to report them if they are distracted from what they should be doing - driving the bus.