Penalty Charge Notice: Being in a bus lane
 

Well I finally have a picture of me riding my motorbike!!! .........

Anyone else had one of these on their bike? :(

Got it in the mail last week. Was caught on Hucknall road in Nottingham (Near junction to Mansfield Road). Was using the buslane to filter past traffic. This is a first for me, didn't even know they had started enforcing them with camera's.

PS. I was guilty. Just did it as it was safer than using the other side of the road between the traffic to filter. :(

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Yea i got one, wandered into a bus lane for a moment and got flashed

I paid the fine and made note that not all the bus lanes are open to bikes in central london...

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Seems silly that we can ride on the opposite side of the road facing oncoming traffic legally but get fined for daring to put a wheel into an empty bus lane, I had one about a year ago, coming up to a 3 lane junction, me turning left, but the traffic was backed up by people turning right and going straight ahead beyond the bus lane, cost me £60 :thumbdown:

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I got done in the same bus lane a couple of days apart. Was highly irritating, its my own fault though, saw lots of others bikes doing it and coupled with being bored of sitting in traffic and late I just nipped into it. Its only a stretch of about 30m of bus lance, completely pointless

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I use the bus lanes going into London for work, but I make a point of checking the sign at the start of them, just in case the miserable so-and-so's take motorcycle permission away !

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go back to the bus lane and check for signs advertising that they are enforcing it with cameras. if not i think you may be able to appeal or summat.

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Are all Bus lanes in London now bike ok??

I was done about 6 yrs ago at Hydepark/park lane 3 buses in the normal lanes and nothing in the bus lane so i ****ed round the frount and got done

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Scan it in, put it up

: )

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Not all - the ones that come under TfL are, the ones under Local Authority are not, This means that generally, Bus Lanes on Red Routes are fine, but if its a Yellow Line (single or double) you had better avoid.

You need to check the sign at the beginning of EVERY section - so everytime you cross a junction where the Bus Lane ends and a new one begins.

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Unfortunately I think there are signs, although they refer to the speed cameras, but I think that is the generic camera enforcement sign. Whether it refers to the bus lane or not.