Bus Lanes

[RabidGiraffe]

Anyone been fined for being in the bus lane lately? They seem to have them set affa sensitive. I got one this week with the photo on it. It's at the very end of the Holburn Street bus lane, my car is only 3/4 in the lane and it's clear from the angle of the car I've only just entered the lane, 5 minutes before it is no longer in operation. Anyone tried to contest one of these?

[chaos_defrost]

Heaps of fines have been handed out and apparently a lot of them have been unpaid. I think it's the council that deals with this now so I don't know if that makes it any easier to avoid paying a fine..

 

Most people seem to avoid using the bus lanes at all times now which means you can skip all the traffic when you're actually allowed to drive in the bus lanes!

[RabidGiraffe]

I know a couple of other people who got them recently but paid them. It's nothing but a money making exercise. It certainly isn't going to improve road safety or traffic congestion.

[jassb]

What's the cost of straying in the bus lane? If you were only 3/4 in the lane, are you only fined 3/4 or still full price?

[RabidGiraffe]

The fine is £30, double if you don't pay it within 14 days. Or as they put it on the letter, the fine is £60, but out of the goodness of their heart they'll half it if you pay it within 14 days.

[spamspamspam]

The council will send you a letter after 28 days for their cash if you haven't paid it. It's the same lot that collect the parking fines and after a big hooha in the locals about the amount of fines outstanding they're being pretty strict about it all now.

 

I'd just pay it and move on min. Nae worth the hassle for the price of a meal.

 

 

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[Dynamo]

See folk cruising down the bus lanes on Queens Road near Anderson drive at rush hour every day...their own fault.

 

Edge of the box is harsh though.

[StandFree1982]

Contest it.

 

Worst Case scenario - You'll still have to pay it, but you should still have 14 days from receiving the rejection to pay the lower price

 

Best case Scenario - You won't have to pay for it.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Glasgow Council were on the news recently as the most severe Council in the whole of the Uk for fining people in bus lanes.

 

The lousy f*ckers.

 

Bus lanes should be abolished, as should buses.

 

Raised Mono-rail is the way of the future. I saw it on the Simpsons and everything!

[zander]

I got one on a Saturday morning see by the picture I'm just entering as it caught me.

 

Thought it was a bit harsh at 8:30 on a Saturday morning when theres next to no traffic.

 

Also heard of a lot more people getting caught lately.

[cow]

Bus Lanes are fucking stupid and should be instantly scrapped. What is the point of having a lane with 1 or 2 vehicles and another with hundreds? The idea of course is the bus will Zoom you to the city and everyone will ditch the car. This of course doesn't work as the bus stops ever 20 feet (as there are waaay to many bus stops) and you end up arriving at your destination at exactly the same time if not longer. Plus your force fed a copy of the metro and you've probably picked up Hepatitis A-D.

[StandFree1982]

Buses in Aberdeen are a disgrace.

 

You're cheaper just buying a bus than travelling on one in Aberdeen these days.

[dave_min]

Anyone been fined for being in the bus lane lately? They seem to have them set affa sensitive. I got one this week with the photo on it. It's at the very end of the Holburn Street bus lane, my car is only 3/4 in the lane and it's clear from the angle of the car I've only just entered the lane, 5 minutes before it is no longer in operation. Anyone tried to contest one of these?

 

Death's too good for you.

[The Boofon]

Anyone been fined for being in the bus lane lately? They seem to have them set affa sensitive. I got one this week with the photo on it. It's at the very end of the Holburn Street bus lane, my car is only 3/4 in the lane and it's clear from the angle of the car I've only just entered the lane, 5 minutes before it is no longer in operation. Anyone tried to contest one of these?

You should buy a bus.

 

Or drive a taxi. That's how Noel Edmonds gets away with it.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/noel-edmonds-drives-his-unlicensed-taxi-424064

[The Boofon]

You need a dummy as well.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/noel-edmonds-black-taxi-mannequin-1844540

[Hewitt1983]

 

 

Most people seem to avoid using the bus lanes at all times now which means you can skip all the traffic when you're actually allowed to drive in the bus lanes!

 

Always found that strange.

 

It's clearly marked when you're allowed in the bus lanes yet the majortiy of drivers never seem to use them when you're allowed to do so, even when it's busy.

 

It's great shooting doon King Street when a' other daft cunt is inexplicably sitting in the normal lane

[chaos_defrost]

Goes to show most motorists can't read a traffic sign! Great Northern Road approaching the Haudagains another bit of road where it happens. Always see people (at times when you're allowed to use that bus lane) queing up in the right lane then cutting across into the left lane where the bus lane ends.

[dave_min]

Goes to show most motorists can't read a traffic sign! Great Northern Road approaching the Haudagains another bit of road where it happens. Always see people (at times when you're allowed to use that bus lane) queing up in the right lane then cutting across into the left lane where the bus lane ends.

 

To be fair to Joe Average, the Times on the Bus Lane signs are almost impossible to read until you're very close.

 

I'm also 99% Sure that the Bus Lanes on GNR are 24-hour and this is an attempt to get folk fined.

[StandFree1982]

 

To be fair to Joe Average, the Times on the Bus Lane signs are almost impossible to read until you're very close.

 

I'm also 99% Sure that the Bus Lanes on GNR are 24-hour and this is an attempt to get folk fined.

Surely the average Joe knows by now that the bus lanes finish at 6pm. King Street is, as someone else pointed out, great for shooting down at 6pm via the bus lanes as everyone seems scared to use it.

[spamspamspam]

 

To be fair to Joe Average, the Times on the Bus Lane signs are almost impossible to read until you're very close.

 

I'm also 99% Sure that the Bus Lanes on GNR are 24-hour and this is an attempt to get folk fined.

 

 

Joe average should've went to specsavers.

[chaos_defrost]

 

To be fair to Joe Average, the Times on the Bus Lane signs are almost impossible to read until you're very close.

 

I'm also 99% Sure that the Bus Lanes on GNR are 24-hour and this is an attempt to get folk fined.

 

Haha just goes to show what I was saying! Off the top of my head bus lane from at least the White Horse to the Haudagain you can use any time expect between 8-9:30am and 4-6pm. Bus lane on Auchmill Road can't be used by cars at anytime.

[Poodler]

 

Haha just goes to show what I was saying! Off the top of my head bus lane from at least the White Horse to the Haudagain you can use any time expect between 8-9:30am and 4-6pm. Bus lane on Auchmill Road can't be used by cars at anytime.

 

 

This is correct

[dave_min]

 

Haha just goes to show what I was saying! Off the top of my head bus lane from at least the White Horse to the Haudagain you can use any time expect between 8-9:30am and 4-6pm. Bus lane on Auchmill Road can't be used by cars at anytime.

 

Aye, that's the bit I meant.

 

I'm not really into street names.

[fine-n-dandy]

You should buy a bus.

 

Or drive a taxi. That's how Noel Edmonds gets away with it.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/noel-edmonds-drives-his-unlicensed-taxi-424064

 

 

You need a dummy as well.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/noel-edmonds-black-taxi-mannequin-1844540

Wonder why the blurred out his plate in one photo & not the other?

[The Boofon]

One article is 4 years older than the other.

[RabidGiraffe]

I think not all bus lanes have the same operating hours.

 

Some of them, like the ones on Holburn Street, are no parking during the day but as soon as it ceases to be a bus lane people can park there, so you can't drive down them then either.

[RabidGiraffe]

 

Death's too good for you.

 

What method of execution? Should I be run over by a bus?