What does this sign mean?

[oniznorb]

Approaching Coventry from the north passes this set of traffic lights

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To the left is a bus lane. The traffic lights on the bus lane have a subsidiary sign which says "except Buses" WTF does this mean?

Perhaps buses should stop if the lights are on green and go if they are on red , however taxis and bicycles in the same lane have to treat the traffic lights as normal.

[Hooli]

I like that question, can't work it out myself either.

[LukeSi]

I wonder, does it mean that a bus can just ignore the traffic lights. Wait yes I see. The only way into that bit is from the bus lane so the busses can ignore the lights, they are for the cars in the right lane and for those pulling out of that carpark.

[oniznorb]

LukeSi said:

The only way into that bit is from the bus lane so the busses can ignore the lights, they are for the cars in the right lane and for those pulling out of that carpark.

The exit is beyond the traffic lights, so the only traffic in the green lane should be buses, taxis and bicycles. The left hand set of traffic lights apply only to the green bus lane.

[LukeSi]

Well thats bloody confusing then.

[Hooli]

LukeSi said:

Well thats bloody confusing then.

That's why I couldn't work it out either.



I can only hope it's a road planner who hates taxis & has done it just to piss them off, that'd be a great use of tax money

[Puddenchucker]

O/T
What purpose does that set of traffic lights serve? It doesn't appear to be at a junction, and it's too far away from the round-about to be controlling traffic entering that.

O/T

[Hooli]

Puddenchucker said:

O/T
What purpose does that set of traffic lights serve? It doesn't appear to be at a junction, and it's too far away from the round-about to be controlling traffic entering that.

O/T

Wild guess - its a park n ride car park & it alternates bus lane flow into town?


I don't know the area though.

[anonymous-user]

Puddenchucker said:

O/T
What purpose does that set of traffic lights serve? It doesn't appear to be at a junction, and it's too far away from the round-about to be controlling traffic entering that.

O/T

Cardiff Council have royally fked up the main route into the City Centre with a similar arrangement. Along with cutting the 3 lane road into two lanes, one of which is buses only

[white90]

It means Taxis and other Bus Lane traffic have to obey the lights
Buses get a free run to change lanes for the Roundabout.
light controlled by buses arrival to lights?

[streaky]

Does the "Except buses" light up only at certain aspects of the traffic light sequence? Or is it continually illuminated?

Certainly one reading of the sign is that the normal 'stop' and 'go' aspects of the traffic signals for the bus lane are negated - i.e. "go" on red and "stop" on green.

Why was tax-payers' money wasted on having an additional traffic signal so closely behind the other to the immediate right of the bus lane?

Streaky

[covboy]

To turn it on its head – When the lights are green does that mean that buses CANT proceed ???

ETA OP asks the same question