You are reading a single comment by @Oliver Schick and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
Oliver Schick
In 2004-5 I worked in bus lane enforcement at TfL.
It was specifically hammered out to us during our training that any drivers seen entering bus lanes to avoid emergency vehicles were not to be fined. At the end of each day all of our 'contraventions' would also be reviewed by a more senior member of staff, and if we'd fined anyone accidentally for making way for emergency vehicles they were then cancelled, before even requesting the data from the DVLA. Additionally at appeal anyone found avoiding an emergency vehicle would have their fine cancelled.
So either the policy has changed in the past ten years, or your brother's anecdote (assuming it was a TfL camera - we also took on work for other London boroughs on a contractual basis) was a very very very unusual and unfortunate case.