Having recently been fined (and not for the 1st time) for contravening a bus lane, I no longer look to drive in them.
BUT....
some bus lanes here in London are 24 hour ones, but there are no 24 hour bus services to drive in them.
Isn't this a little bit strange?
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Bus lanes are an anomoly, in that the fine is for potentially holding up a bus by using a piece of road with a bus may at some time also wish to use.
I would be more willing to accept bus lanes if the offence was that of delaying a bus, but to be fined for straying onto a piece of road which a bus may not wish to use for anything ranging from a few minutes to a few hours seems highly dubious.
IMHO, bus companies should pay a rental charge for the time which they wish to have exclusive rights over a piece of the highway which has been built and is maintained out of general taxation.
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Best way to speed up buses is to bring back conductors so the bus doesn't sit at each stop for 10 mins while the driver piddles around with 10p pieces.
A 24hr bus lane without 24hr buses does seem odd though.....
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Most cars use bus lanes as a way of jumping the queue and pushing in front of others.
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its not just the lanes themselves anymore its the traffic lights setup to let phantom buses through
often you can be forced to wait for ages, as four lines of real traffic are held up to let a bus lane "phantom" bus jump the queues, when there isnt even a bus there half the time
and the light sequence stays the same even late on sundays when the buses dont even run etc
total nonsense
congenstion is not the drivers fault its pretty poor traffic management
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They've got a few of those phantom junctions in watford, at rush 'hour+' all the traffic gets snarled up the buses don't use them as a lot of the time as they're stuck in the congestion caused by the traffic lights.
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