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One of the main interesting things about bus lanes has always been that most drivers aren't really aware of the hours of operation, and so stick to the adjacent general traffic lane even out of hours. It's odd especially in view of the satnav boom, as you'd expect that kind of software to be programmed to tell people when they can drive in bus lanes. If drivers were aware, you'd obviously get less of that occasional aggressive driving.
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I assume a lot of people driving down roads with bus lanes are fairly local, making familiar journeys and not sliding satnav so that wouldn't make much difference.
In any case the signs are clear if you look but outside operation hours many bus lanes have permitted parking so pulling into one almost inevitably means having to pull back out a few hundred yards down the road and it quickly becomes easier to sit in the regular lane.
I know in my driving lessons I would be told off by my instructor if I didn't use a bus lane when I could, I don't recall what happened in my test but Wood Green B was sufficiently rubbish it got shut down.
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I was wondering if TfL would send an army out to change all the bus lane signs overnight. Hasn't happened.
They have put up signs suspending the loading bays / parking outside the local big builders merchants (until March 2022), which is normally a wall of battered white vans on weekdays. Going to be interesting tomorrow.
It's odd especially in view of the satnav boom, as you'd expect that kind of software to be programmed to tell people when they can drive in bus lanes
Are there part time bus lanes in Silicon Valley? Not gonna happen otherwise.
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As above, dropping in and out of bus lanes is hard work when you're driving. There's normally parked cars, bikes, stopped buses, etc in them so to progress you need to keep swerving in and out of them which requires much more effort than trundling along in one lane.
jellybaby
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I was undertaken by a car in a bus lane while driving down Green Lanes early yesterday morning. I was travelling at 20mph so they were also speeding. To finish the set they were holding their mobile phone and had a broken brake light. I of course caught up with them at the lights. So yes, aggressive cocks but arguably since the bus lane wasn't in operation I should have been in it, allowing them to speed and overtake on my right.