how many meters can we driver on Bus Lane

eddddy

Richard53 wrote: »

I was in central London late at night with my (quite wealthy) brother-in-law just after the introduction of the congestion charge. I remarked on how quite the traffic was.


"It's lovely," he remarked. "Roads for the Rich!"

Shurely shome mishtake - the congestion charge doesn't operate late at night. Only from 7am to 6pm.

Richard53

eddddy wrote: »

Shurely shome mishtake - the congestion charge doesn't operate late at night. Only from 7am to 6pm.

It might have been on the way *to* the event rather than afterwards. It was a while ago. It doesn't really matter.


Thanks for the correction, though.

Tokk

NBLondon wrote: »

Well the one near me is rush-hour only -but as z1a says - most people just avoid it at any time. The only thing to be wary of is that you can be tempted to go over 30 as you filter past...

Another thing to be really careful of is being cut up.
Plenty of road users don't check blindspots properly at the best of times and I'm convinced that plenty assume there's nothing in the bus lane that isn't the size of a bus... And so it's hardly surprising that sometimes they turn left across you without looking properly (or indicating, these days).

Supersonos

facade wrote: »

I think Jimbo means that you can't read it unless you are pretty much already in the bus lane, it is pretty hard to read from a moving car outside the lane, which is why so many people don't drive in them at any time to be safe. Number plate letters are a little bigger so I can read them from 20 metres....

It really isn't difficult to read. I'm on the cusp on needing glasses to drive and have no problem reading bus lane signs.

NBLondon

Tokk wrote: »

I'm convinced that plenty assume there's nothing in the bus lane that isn't the size of a bus... And so it's hardly surprising that sometimes they turn left across you without looking properly (or indicating, these days).

True - extra attention needed at the end or at junctions. Probably the same lot of idiots who fail to see cyclists because they aren't the size of buses.

AdrianC

NBLondon wrote: »

True - extra attention needed at the end or at junctions. Probably the same lot of idiots who fail to see cyclists because they aren't the size of buses.

I was walking through the local supermarket car park yesterday - an old boy in a newish small Lexus started reversing out of a space, almost straight into the side of a passing vehicle, which had to hoot to wake him up.

A full-size bin wagon...

He'd have hit it about 2/3 of the way down, too, and it wasn't exactly going fast...

MEM62

skyman2014 wrote: »

does anyone know how many meters we are allowed to drive on bus lane, when turning left and when over taking vehicle turning right?

Yes. Zero.

almillar

I think Jimbo means that you can't read it unless you are pretty much already in the bus lane,

I get that point, but there's plenty of paint on the road. Don't drive in a bus lane, until you've read the blue sign - simple enough. Signs could be blocked by other vehicles, trees etc, bu that's no excuse to just drive into one at 8.30am.

Car_54

facade wrote: »

I think Jimbo means that you can't read it unless you are pretty much already in the bus lane, it is pretty hard to read from a moving car outside the lane, which is why so many people don't drive in them at any time to be safe. Number plate letters are a little bigger so I can read them from 20 metres....

But the bus lane should be preceeded by a lead-in taper marked by a broken line, and the bus lane sign must be placed 30 m before that, and with a minimum clear visiblity distance of 45m. If the speed limit is 40 mph or more, those distances are increased.
So, no, you're not "pretty much already in the bus lane".