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I noticed that the bus lane on the A13 next to Cycle Superhighway CS3 no longer permits cycles, just taxis and motorcycles with the buses. I assume cyclists are forbidden because they are expected to use the superhighway, so now of you don't wish to roll with the CS3 nodders you're riding with the cars on the A13.
That'll make the drivers happy

It may be utter fuckwittery an oversight - The TRO would have the proper details.

Doubt it's an oversight somehow tiswas.

No, I would assume that that's probably an oversight, too. As Tiswas says, the TRO would have the details.

i belive that there is an expectation that where there is a superhighway you gotta use it. On the day of the launch of CS7, riding to clapham common for that, I was pulled over by a motorbike cop for filtering right of the traffic jam not on the superhighway. They want to improve traffic flow as a major TfL priority (see blackfriars and elephant debacle)

Compulsion to use cycle facilities is a complex subject. In this country, no such compulsion exists. This is often misunderstood, as in the famous case of Daniel Cadden. While it is possible to exclude certain classes of road user from a bus lane, it would not usually be done in a bus lane. The benign patronising of 'oh, but we have built you a lovely Superhighway' wouldn't generally cut it here. If cyclists were restricted from using the bus lane, then they would still be perfectly welcome to ride in the general traffic lane, which would increase the impact of cyclists on motor traffic.

Whenever you hear the phrase 'smoothing the flow of traffic', run for the hills, as it's absolute and utter nonsense what's being perpetrated under that cloak. London is currently being threatened with moving back to traffic management of the early 90s.

That's wrong though isn't it?

"superhighways" are not mandatory and wasn't there a hoo-haa which got something planned to go in the highway code changed?

The CTC led an excellent campaign against advice that cyclists should use cycle facilities, which would have been a first step towards compelling them to do this by law:

http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4856

They deserve a lot of praise for this. It will all come back, but has been averted for the time being.