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Hi, grateful to hear from anyone that?s received a fine when legitimately turning left into the bus lane to go to Sainsbury?s! The photo we?ve been sent clearly shows our car (not me driving) in the bus lane within at the staggered line and just yards away from the turning. Interested to hear if you?ve successfully challenged a fine at the same location or in a similar situation.


Thanks

There are a couple of recent "appeal refused" ETA cases in respect of DKH which seem to confirm that a motorist can cross into the bus lane to turn left where the solid white line becomes a broken white line (which is what I always understood).


https://londontribunals.org.uk/naslivepws/pwslive/f?p=14952:70::INITIALISE:NO:70:P70_CAS_REFNO,P70_PCN_REFNO,P70_RETURN_PAGE,P70_AST_CODE:1360404,2682954,60,APPEAL&cs=3wx5eAE4xA7T_dYJZNmt3NRX6CSelUwQIDwcPK8nS3m_engr9k6PagflJifcBMNZjeMdXJtjeuF0M3zb-KBgoTA


Mr Malek?s case is that went to Dog Kennel Hill to drop off a customer and went into the bus lane to drop them off. Mr Malek says he then had a new job picking up the new customer on the same road and was just a few meters further so he went to pick them up from there.


I accept this evidence but the images show the vehicle travelling down the bus lane and then turning left.


This is not a valid exemption for being in a bus lane and the motorist must wait until the end of bus lane or a direction arrow or break in the continuous line. Where there is no break, typically adjoining an entrance to private premises, a vehicle can only cross the bus lane and not travel in it.


An activated indicator light may well demonstrate an intention to turn but does provide an exemption from the prohibition.


I accept that this may not have been a deliberate attempt by Mr Malek to contravene the bus lane regulations but that is not in itself a valid ground of appeal.

The Transport for London website is quite clear that it's not an offence to cross into a bus lane where there is a dotted line ( as opposed to a solid line) in order to follow a left turn arrow and turn left

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/red-routes/rules-of-red-routes/bus-lanes


Fight it!

you shouldn't get a fine. myself and my brother go on that bus lane way ahead of the left turn - and no fines received yet. touch wood! defo do a representation for it! if we don't go on the bus lane -it creates more traffic and cutting buses off to cut back into left. its silly to have a bus lane there! grrrr. good luck

I'ts difficult - I had to stop a couple of weeks ago in the outside lane to wait for traffic to move ahead so I could cross into the bus lane at the correct point not before.


People behind me wonder why I'm not moving ahead to the lights (or maybe they don't if they know the area).

If you crossed the dotted line, you shouldn?t have been fined and should definitely appeal. For those that say it?s OK to drive up the bus lane- you?re wrong and it makes it difficult/ dangerous for those turning at the proper place (as someone wizzes up, undertaking on the left).
It's worth noting two things - the dotted lines probably start too late (ideally at least another bus-length or two of cross-over would be safer) and that section of bus lane (to Denmark Hill) would be very suited for morning rush-hour only (7am - 10am) restrictions - at most other times (except when there are road works) traffic flow is actually pretty good, and buses would not get held up by non bus traffic.

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> It's worth noting two things - the dotted lines

> probably start too late (ideally at least another

> bus-length or two of cross-over would be safer)

> and that section of bus lane (to Denmark Hill)

> would be very suited for morning rush-hour only

> (7am - 10am) restrictions - at most other times

> (except when there are road works) traffic flow is

> actually pretty good, and buses would not get held

> up by non bus traffic.



Very good points.

Yes, those are very good points. They actually shortened the dotted area when they last repainted for reasons that are rather difficult to ascertain. Could someone from Southwark maybe address this issue? Creating a dangerous situation for a high-use car park seems less that foresightful.

They actually shortened the dotted area when they last repainted for reasons that are rather difficult to ascertain.


Revenue generation? - these fines don't just hand themselves out... I'm on record elsewhere as suggesting our council(ors) are not to be trusted.

From the following it seems to me that there's a 30 m broken line prescribed, as in the RH part of figure 9-1. (The diagrams cited are in TSRGD itself. Diagram 1010, for example, is simply a line of 1000 x 200 mm dashes, printed at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/schedule/11/part/4/made#text%3D1010.)


1.1.1. The Traffic Signs Manual (the Manual) offers advice to traffic authorities and their contractors, designers and managing agents in the United Kingdom, on the use of traffic signs and road markings on the highway network. Mandatory requirements are set out in the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 (as amended) (TSRGD).


............

9.3.13. Where a nearside bus lane passes a junction with a major left‑turning flow into the side road, the line to diagram 1049A should be replaced with a broken line to diagram 1010 (see Figure 9-1). The broken line should commence 30 m in advance of the junction, and have the same width as the line to diagram 1049A. It should be accompanied by the arrow to diagram 1050 indicating a left turn (see Figure 9-6). At other junctions, the diagram 1049A marking should be terminated approximately 10 m before the junction (or at the junction if the minor road is one‑way towards the major road). In each case the bus lane recommences beyond the junction in combination with a marking to diagram 1010 (see Figure 9-1). It is important to ensure that the marking to diagram 1049A is terminated correctly, so that drivers turning left can move across to do so safely without needing to cross the continuous line.--Traffic Signs Manual, Chapter 3 (2019) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/traffic-signs-manual

JohnL Wrote:

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> I'ts difficult - I had to stop a couple of weeks

> ago in the outside lane to wait for traffic to

> move ahead so I could cross into the bus lane at

> the correct point not before.

>

> People behind me wonder why I'm not moving ahead

> to the lights (or maybe they don't if they know

> the area).

Yes, I do this too.

> I'd say it's 10m as two cars fills it.


Which would be consistent with its being treated as not a major left-turning flow. I don't know what people think would be an appropriate length, or whether anything other then the 30 or 10 m options could be considered.

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