Motorbike of Bus Lane Trials - List?

Originally Posted by T-Man

To get into bath, you can use the bus lane into the center of the city. Very useful and great to see the faces of cagers who've been stuck in the que for 2 hours :P

yeah I love that one, but sometimes almost forget when I'm in my van that I can't use it!

In Newport you can but i still use them in my van even more so when there's only room for one car at the end of the lane before the roundabout.

In Hull you're allowed to use bus lanes.

Reading Borough Council allows M/C's to use all bus lanes, careful though coz West Berks is the authority in the west of Reading, I live very near the border but not sure of their rules

[timwilky]

No such thing as a bus lane round here. So how the hell do they think people should know what you can/cannot do in different place. Surely a single consistent policy should exist.

[Geodude]

Originally Posted by Steve_God

Does anyone know if there's a list of which authorities (Councils) round the country have undertaken trials or fully allow for motorcycles using bus lanes?

So far I've got:
- London
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- County Durham
- Belfast

You can only use a very short bit of bus lane about 100m in durham on gilesgate bank only. Bikes can't use any of the others in durham?

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by Geodude

You can only use a very short bit of bus lane about 100m in durham on gilesgate bank only. Bikes can't use any of the others in durham?

Aye thats the only bit I can think of as I bought my bike further up the road
Hasn't changed since I last was on the bike there

[Dave20046]

- London
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- County Durham
- Belfast
-Sheffield, but it's not a trial it's glorious permanency

Cheers guys!

Randomly my local Councillor is now sitting on the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee, so I've taken the opportunity to badger him about pushing for the same in Greater Manchester

Ps: for future info, the list I managed to compile from your input plus a few website articles was:
- London
- Birmingham
- Sheffield
- Newcastle upon Tyne (in the form of 'No Car Lanes')
- Leeds (in the form of '2+ Lanes)
- Hull
- Bristol
- County Durham
- Belfast
- Plymouth
- Bedford
- Bath
- Colchester
- Swindon
- Reading
(It's a mixture of trials, permanent, and staged implementation)

[happysv]

They need to allow us to use the bus lane on the crescent in manchester now thats its down to 1 lane.