martine wrote:vonhosen wrote:Bus lanes are created by individual traffic orders. The traffic orders will list exemptions & typically there will be one in relation to emergencies such as ' a vehicle entering or stopping in a bus lane to allow a person to get or give help in consequence of an accident or emergency or otherwise take action for public safety'.
The cameras will tend to be video not just stills & will provide evidence of you entering to allow a person to give help in consequence of an emergency (ie allowing/assisting the emergency vehicles passage).
So how is the ordinary motorist supposed to know if it's OK to enter a bus lane in these circumstances? This is a nonsense.
I think that if the traffic order fails to list that exemption, and if you were to get a ticket, then take it to an adjudication, and the adjudicator sees that you had entered the bus lane in that circumstance based on the video evidence, then the ticket may be cancelled.
However, I'm basing that on when I got a ticket for stopping on a yellow line during its' restricted hours for the purpose of collecting passengers and their luggage. At the adjudication, the adjudicator looked at the traffic order the council submitted as evidence, and didn't find a dropping off/collecting passenger exemption, and the ticket was cancelled. Nevertheless, there were other faults with the traffic order and the evidence the council submitted anyway.
Nonetheless, traffic orders for yellow lines and bus lanes could be different/same, I don't know.
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