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blacklashez

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Quick question , how active is the bus lane camera on the road which leads from lordship lane to Foresthill? I think it's on the A205 . It's the road that leads upto hornimans museum. I wasn't really driving in the bus lane however I had to change lanes and get Into to the left lane ( as the right lane was turning right onto Sydenham hill) and went into the bus lane a bit ( I would say a few feet before the blue sign says End OF Bus LAne" ) and am worried I'll get a penalty. Anyone have the same experience?
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DulwichFox

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I think you will probably be ok.. but depends how far you travelled in the bus lane..

I know where you are talking about.


I've always been worried about turning left into Sainsburys where there is a bus lane..


No good worrying though. I think it's cheaper if you pay any fine quickly.


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PeckhamRose

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That really is an annoying bit of road, because the cars are all having to be in one lane, the outside lane, then they have to shove over when their lane has to turn right to Sydenham Hill. Some don't bother looking in the rear view mirror and on my motorbike I have nearly come a cropper (well I would have, had I not been doing just 30mph and paying attention), when the cars move lanes. There are a few like that, on East Dulwich Road towards Peckham Rye Park for example and that nuts bit of road where sometimes car drivers do not realise it's TWO WAY! Yikes. And in the middle of that mess is the entrance to Tescos and the garage. Life in the fast lane!
peckham_ryu

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DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Buses are fitted with 'Forward Looking' Cameras


It's true. Luckily though, there is a very widely followed consensus among bus drivers to make sure those cameras are turned off when they're on the road. Most of the driving offences they capture when they're running are their own and other buses!

peckham_ryu

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CassieBushell Wrote:

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> I always 'skip' across the end of the bus lane

> just before finishes ? never had anything


I got fined for exactly that, in Ealing. Caught by a CCTV operator, no more than two car lengths from the end of the solid line. Still makes me grind my teeth, 7 or so years on!

kford

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CassieBushell Wrote:

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> I always 'skip' across the end of the bus lane

> just before finishes otherwise you end up sitting

> in solid traffic like a lemon for the sake of a

> meter or two when the other lane is empty and

> green light. We have never had anything (touch

> wood!)


You have to drive 40m in a bus lane for any fine to be valid. You should've appealed!

rendelharris

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kford Wrote:

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> You have to drive 40m in a bus lane for any fine

> to be valid. You should've appealed!


20m, I think, and it's only a guideline, not a law - if you've cut in front of a bus or otherwise hampered it you can still be fined. A mate was fined when a camera caught his left rear tyre just kissing the end of the bus lane at Grove Tavern when turning left - appeal refused on the grounds that he had forced a bus further back in the lane to slow down.

kford

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rendelharris Wrote:

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> kford Wrote:

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> > You have to drive 40m in a bus lane for any

> fine

> > to be valid. You should've appealed!


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> 20m, I think, and it's only a guideline, not a law

> - if you've cut in front of a bus or otherwise

> hampered it you can still be fined. A mate was

> fined when a camera caught his left rear tyre just

> kissing the end of the bus lane at Grove Tavern

> when turning left - appeal refused on the grounds

> that he had forced a bus further back in the lane

> to slow down.



You're correct - it's the '20m concession'

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