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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-out2.kabelfoon.nl!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!bandi.nntp.kabelfoon.nl!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling,uk.rec.driving Subject: Re: Beefing up bus lanes. Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:26:28 +0100 References:  <5436c6h9d45lfmpf0id7bd0cvc5bm2deur@4ax.com> <+GsUOLGs+ywMFwsp@g3ohx.demon.co.uk>   <8iivvtFcklU3@mid.individual.net> Lines: 49 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 101024-1, 24/10/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: e078a60d.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=0Z7ObcgGlm2>R0B3P9H_b8YjZGX^207P;`, jenningsltd@fastmail.fm says... > > On 24/10/2010 02:16, Nkosi (Ama Exosse) wrote: > > "Simon Mason" wrote in message > > news:O4ednal9nNoWr17RnZ2dnUVZ8gednZ2d@eclipse.net.uk... > >> > >> "Ian Jackson" wrote in message > >> news:+GsUOLGs+ywMFwsp@g3ohx.demon.co.uk... > >>> In Newcastle upon Tyne, they are marked 'No Car Lane'. That allows buses > >>> and taxis (I think!). > >>> -- > >>> Ian > >> > >> Ours are labelled buses/cycles only and are full of cars during their > >> hours of operation, which means I have to cycle in the overtaking lane to > >> pass them all, which is the exact opposite of their intention. I actually > >> cycled past a learner driver in a school car the other day and did a > >> double take as it was in the bus lane as well! Teaching drivers to break > >> the law before they've even passed the test. > >> > >> Brilliant. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Simon Mason > >> http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/ > >> > > > > Bus lanes are an abortion and should be banned immediately > > My thought entirely, though I would have no objection to separate bus > carriageways built (from scratch, not on pre-existing highway land) and > maintained by bus operators.

Ah, but that wouldn't achieve one of the two main aims of bus lanes: to deter motoring by causing artificial congestion. Even Simon Mason admits that that's the case. Funny how the authorities don't seem to like to advertise the "deterring motoring" reason; you would think that in a democracy, the majority of the public would be behind such a strategy, otherwise the authorities wouldn't adopt it.

Of course, as we know, the reality is that the majority of voters certainly *don't* support artificially increasing congestion, particularly in these difficult economic times, but since when did the patronising socialist loonies who have somehow got all the real power in councils up and down the country care what the hell the public wanted, or indeed have anything but the most obnoxious of nannying contempt for them?