Bus lane camera question

[dj_rog]

I was driving to work this morning (as you do on a week day) heading up the A312 towards the junction of the A312 and the A40. It is a dual carriageway but the left lane is a bus lane after 7am. I was listening to the 7am news on the radio and Mondeo boy charges up the bus lane and proceeds to try to cut in front of me (into the right hand lane). Rather peeved by this I give him a large dose of my Volvo’s horn, don’t let him in and take satisfaction from the fact that he has driven though the recently installed bus lane video camera job. He seemed to take exception to this and proceeded to follow me for the next five miles before giving up and turning back the way we had both come from.

My question is: How many minutes grace do drivers get given by bus lane cameras? It was probably about 7:02-3 when he drove though it.

His blatant following of me made me start getting quite worried as to what his intentions might be and it would make me feel much better to know he is likely to get a fine (assuming the cam had video in it).

It really p*%@es me off when people drive in bus lanes!

Comments/info appreciated!

Rog
(Sorry for long post!)

[deltaf]

Bus lanes.... what a stupid and pointless waste of road space.
If there hadnt been a bus lane there(taken from the existing road no doubt) then you my friend would most likely NOT have been sitting in the jam that mondeo man apparently tried to circumvent.
I dont really have aproblem with someone doing that, as the road has already been paid for by the likes of you and i. Why should we allow the authorities to dictate WHERE on the carriageway we can drive?
We've paid for it, so use it!

Sorry if my view dosent fit in with yours, but thats the way i see this.

[dj_rog]

deltaf said:

Why should we allow the authorities to dictate WHERE on the carriageway we can drive?

Something called the law?

[deltaf]

Law. Hmm bad laws should be ignored, its the only real way we have of getting them changed.

edited cos i cant spell for toffee this morning.


>> Edited by deltaf on Friday 11th July 11:10

[bad company]

I'm with Detlaf on this one. There are too many bloody bus lanes on roads we have paid for!

Why not make them bus priority lanes. That way you could use them if no buses were about but would have to move over if a bus comes up behind.

[boxster]

It doesn't matter whether it's a bus lane or a filter lane or whatever. Driving up the wrong lane then cutting in is simply queue jumping. It wouldn't be acceptable anywhere else in everyday life and isn't acceptable on the road.