Do you drrive in Bus Lanes? : Poll

[F i F]

Driving into town tonight, bus lane 7am to 7pm.

Every other wker was keeping out of the bus lane and all tripping over themselves, yet you had to watch them like a hawk becaus ethey'd just whang the left indicator on and turn into you without looking.

Then they get all shirty because you take the bus lane at the lights and get ahead.

I'm answering B) by the way. Everybody else on the roads tonight should answer A) plonkers.

[NiceCupOfTea]

B for me, but sometimes it's safer avoiding them. As you say, people turn across them without looking, people get pissy about you passing them, people park in them, and people walk in them!

[nouze]

always outside the hours of operation. what boils my piss is those who can't turn left across the bus lane properly. they must be thinking it's full of land mines or something.

[Nuttah]

nouze said:

always outside the hours of operation. what boils my piss is those who can't turn left across the bus lane properly. they must be thinking it's full of land mines or something.

just ingnore it and get along with the rest of your day, i would never boil my piss over something that has such little effect on my day.

[Herman Toothrot]

Bus lanes near me are all red and the blue signs are marked bus and push bike only, no times - therefore are 24hour BUS LANES.

I keep out of them. A lot of idiots pull into one in particular early to try and cut past all the traffic thats correctly waiting for the lane to finish to then merge to then turn left, the bus lane cheats then get shirty when the drivers who are in the right cut them up to turn left. The end of the bus lane is also labelled to remind bus drivers they have to wait for merging cars to turn left.

[Wills2]

I'm amazed at the amount of drivers that do not use bus lanes out of the operating hours, I can only assume that they can't read or aren't paying attention.

Having said that it's like having a private road.

[Nigel Worc's]

Wills2 said:

I'm amazed at the amount of drivers that do not use bus lanes out of the operating hours, I can only assume that they can't read or aren't paying attention.

Having said that it's like having a private road.

If you are not local, or a frequent user of a particular area, surely this is understandable ?

We have a new bus lane on Newtown road in Worcester, it's an absolute abortion, the road is only about a mile and a half long, the bus lane, from memory is in five parts, (yes thats five seperate parts in that distance), parts one two and three are twenty four hour, and bus and cycle only, part four is twenty four hour, and bus cycle and taxi, part five is between seven am to ten am, and four pm to seven pm, and is bus and cycle only.


Confused ? .......... you bloody well should be.

We need national rules, not this local bks !

[Pigeon]

DPIAC.

[Zod]

On my way home, I bypass 95% of the traffic by driving in the bus lane (ends at 7pm). Most drivers are too stupid to read and understand signs.

[Nigel Worc's]

Pigeon said:

DPIAC.

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[Kays vRS]

I'll use them outside of operating hours, not so much at night when the roads are quiet anyway (and on a lot of roads they're full of parked cars) but they're especially handy on Sundays as the majority of drivers stay out of them.

[EDLT]

Nigel Worc's said:

Pigeon said:

DPIAC.

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Don't piss in a car. Good advice but not relevant tbh.

[DJFish]

Yes, but you have to remember that parking is usually permitted during the 'off' hours as well and you may well find the lane blocked by one or more parked cars, hence why people don't often bother to use them.

[Chas88]

I do outside the hours of operation, there's one near me that no one ever uses and when the bus lane ends and the road merges into one lane the bus lane has priority so it's always useful.

[Zod]

DJFish said:

Yes, but you have to remember that parking is usually permitted during the 'off' hours as well and you may well find the lane blocked by one or more parked cars, hence why people don't often bother to use them.

my route home is Holloway Road (the A1) and you can almost always see the parked car sufficiently in advance to find a gap to pull into without inconveniencing anybody. I reckon I save a couple of minute most evenings without impeding other drivers.

[Pigeon]

Nigel Worc's said:

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And I thought you'd be the one who would get it

Someone is a something

[LOGiK]

Only on my motorcycle when I've seen a sign allowing it or in my car when I know they're not active.

Also, once to be a complete cock and get past a stream of traffic. I felt bad for that though, it was a real cxntish move.

[CharlieHotel]

Wills2 said:

I'm amazed at the amount of drivers that do not use bus lanes out of the operating hours, I can only assume that they can't read or aren't paying attention.

Having said that it's like having a private road.

Same here. Amazed by people who don't use the bus lane which is only in operation near my house at the times of 07:30-09:30.
This also results in a lot of congestion on a busy road too as on the other side of the road alot of cars park, so the cars coming the other way sometimes have to give way to the people out of the bus lane.

[CharlieHotel]

Wills2 said:

I'm amazed at the amount of drivers that do not use bus lanes out of the operating hours, I can only assume that they can't read or aren't paying attention.

Having said that it's like having a private road.

Same here. Amazed by people who don't use the bus lane which is only in operation near my house at the times of 07:30-09:30.
This also results in a lot of congestion on a busy road too as on the other side of the road alot of cars park, so the cars coming the other way sometimes have to give way to the people out of the bus lane.

[F i F]

Pigeon said:

DPIAC.

Indeed!!