Driving Into Tram Only Section Of City Centre

[Annie Bynnol 612]

The minor side road is designed to serve to MacDonald's, B&Q, the hotel, offices and Morrison's. 

Like other minor and major side roads there are gaps in the bus lane to allow traffic from the side roads onto the main road.

At this point the bus stop ends and the main road becomes two lanes, the inside lane with all vehicles being able to merge and form two lanes into the major Bradfield Road junction. The outside lane  is continuous.

So under the present system the bus lane serves an important and sometimes busy bus stop from which they can access the two lanes into the two lanes.

The extension of the bus removes some of the conflicts between all the vehicles at the minor with vehicles jostling for position across one lane less on both main and side road. 

 

There is also history of using  the route through Morrison's as a rat run which cause an increase in traffic.

 

[alchresearch 214]

I used to drive down White Lane on my commute home. At least three times over the years I witnessed people drive straight onto the tram tracks here.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3412453,-1.4127239,3a,75y,93.05h,74.55t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saTBWc8EBAbX0qvKO5AhZlA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[Paul xaman 0]

UPDATE: 

 

It is now far beyond the 14 day notification period and I have not received anything relating to this event through the post.

 

It would seem that either the camera in question is a "manned" camera which was unmanned at the time, or in fact the users who state that  fines etc for these offences are unenforceable by camera outside of London are correct.  

 

This would appear to be an end of it. No fine, no points. Hope this thread and relevant posts within can be informative for anyone in a similar position in future. 

 

Thank you for all responses.

Edited September 18, 2020 by Paul xaman
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[nightrider 13]

On 04/09/2020 at 10:16, Bigal1 said:

So what is the point of continuing the bus lane about 2 or 3 meters on the other side of the junction into Morrisons

Someone who works for the council is never going to admit rules are about revenue raising!

 

 

[Bargepole23 337]

6 hours ago, nightrider said:

Someone who works for the council is never going to admit rules are about revenue raising!

 

 

Who on this thread works for the council? Not Planner1 AFAIK.

[Planner1 428]

22 hours ago, Paul xaman said:

It would seem that either the camera in question is a "manned" camera which was unmanned at the time, or in fact the users who state that  fines etc for these offences are unenforceable by camera outside of London are correct.  

 

This would appear to be an end of it. No fine, no points. Hope this thread and relevant posts within can be informative for anyone in a similar position in future. 

 

Thank you for all responses.

You're talking a load of twaddle.

 

I told you earlier in the thread that the your contravention was a banned turn, which SCC can't enforce and there are no bus lane cameras at that location. I provided a link to the Council website showing where the enforced areas actually are.

 

SCC do not have any operated / "manned" cameras. The few operated ones that were left were replaced with automatic ones a couple of years ago. All their enforcement cameras for bus lanes  and gates are automatic.

Edited September 19, 2020 by Planner1

[Planner1 428]

22 hours ago, nightrider said:

Someone who works for the council is never going to admit rules are about revenue raising!

 

 

How are they going to raise revenue from that section of bus lane? It isn't enforced. You can see which ones are enforced on this map. The enforced locations are red.

 

Even at camera enforced locations, they never issue penalties for cutting the last few metres of a bus lane. That's because they know that if any such penalty was appealed to the independent adjudicator, the penalty would be overturned, so they don't issue them in the first place.

 

All of the Council's bus lane / gate cameras are at locations where bus operators have raised concerns about delays to their services due to abuse of the bus lanes / gates and the Council have carried out surveys and confirmed that abuse is taking place. 

 

The uses to which surplus income from bus lane enforcement can be put are very restricted by law, so it isn't something they could do just to increase their overall budget.