[OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

[Tristan Scott]

In my experience (Norwich, UK) a so-called "bus lane" is often a Bus,
taxi and cycle lane. The overlords of roads in norwich often nobble
cars by shutting down a small portion of a short-cut ("rat run") by
making a bottleneck area bus lane. Therefore taxis carry on using the
shortcut, and cars must go join the queue on the main road through.

the point is that it's not often (at least in the uk) that a bus lane
does not also mean taxis.

Not sure if cyclists are allowed in bus lanes but in my experience
cyclists, by virtue of not having numberplates, are immune to all
traffic laws, and simply ignore any and all restrictions anyway.

Tristan

2008/10/26 Stephen Hope <slhope at gmail.com>:
> "Passenger service vehicles (PSVs) are:
>
>    * vehicles used in a passenger service (no matter how many seating
> positions they might have)
>    * vehicles with more than 12 seating positions (whether they're
> used for hire or reward or not)
>    * heavy motor vehicles with more than nine seating positions"
>
> So Taxis, Shuttles, Buses, some minivans (the big ones have 14 seats).
>  I have a friend with a horse float that qualifies.
>
> In reality, it's almost always buses that use the PSV lanes, but some
> other vehicles are allowed in some places.
>
> Stephen
>
> 2008/10/23 Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net>:
>> "Stephen Hope" <slhope at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Not all PSV's are buses.
>>
>> What else?
>>
>> Matthias
>>
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