Why no motorcycles allowed in bus lanes!!

[Rogerborg]

[talkToTheHat]

They trialed bikes in buslanes in Doncaster with great fanfare, on one stretch of buslane that cuts from left to right across a dual carriageway at a traffic lights. One of the ongoing complaints is most of the regular detection loops don't trigger on motorcycles, so this was doomed to failure from the start. Nothing was mentioned and nobody noticed when the motorcycle silhouette disappeared from the handful of signs. What would be really handy would be letting bikes through the hundred yards or so of busses and authorised vehicles only roads in the middle of town that connect the convenient parking spots.

Meanwhile one valley over in Royston (Vasey)*, Carlton and I think I've seen these in Barnsley now as well, there are Local Bus lanes for Local Busses Only.

I got stopped by a policeman with a bee in his bonnet in wakefield because I bimbled down the inside of queuing traffic using the bus lane a few weeks ago. Panda car in the queue spots me and the lights go on. I pull up, engine off, step off, and the enthusiastic policeman is already swaggering over as i'm juggling helmet and glasses. I put my helmet down, glasses back on, and realise he's looking at me like he's said something and expects an answer. Digging my earplugs out I say: "Sorry, I didn't catch what you said, but I think the clock on my dash must be wrong, I thought it was about quarter past six."

"What's that got to do with you being int bus lane?"

I look over my shoulder at the lamp post behind me. There is a long awkward silence.

"You're not from these parts are you?" he finally asks.

"Well, no, but what in particular gave it away?"

"Nobody here's read the sign."


*1198, please note that's the next valley over, or have they started selling special stuff at the local butchers for local people here too?
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[HappyDays]

[Evil Hans]

Bristol:

https://www.bristol.gov.uk/parking/bus-lane-enforcement

Or, to summarise: "motorcycles can use all the bus lanes, except the ones they can't."

ffs.
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[M.C]

[Andy_Pagin]

[Qyburn]

What's the justification for allowing motorcycles in the bus lane at all, rather than allowing other classes of vehicle? Don't get me wrong, it would suit me down to the ground, but if I was a car driver I'd probably be asking why bikes.
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[HappyDays]

[Rogerborg]

[grr666]

[Rogerborg]

[Qyburn]

[HappyDays]

[HappyDays]

Not even a mention about Motorcycles in the master plan.
https://www.local.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/5.16%20Congestion_report_v03.pdf

WTF!!
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[Rogerborg]

[HappyDays]

[Rogerborg]

[Johnnythefox]

Here in Plymouth, bus lanes proliferate and cause plenty of congestion for cagers (reduced road capacity), however bikes can use them 24/7 which is good, although during instruction for DAS and during tests they are not entered.

[grr666]

[Rogerborg]

[ART-ADS]

I'm from Wycombe and the police are cunts around here because of all the moped crime
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[Rogerborg]

[Falco]

[rpsmith79]

We don't even have bus lanes in Chesterfield, but we do in Sheffield (where i work) and luckily they are all usable by bikes (well all the ones i need to use anyway)

And i can't see Sheffield Council spending anymore money than necessary to change all the road signs, they are broke enough as it is
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[Rogerborg]