[OSM-talk] Contraflow bus lane

[Matthias Julius]

"Tristan Scott" <trs998 at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Since this is not the case everywhere in the world I guess having
separate bus and taxi tags (or busway and taxiway) are needed.

It would be good if someone could update the psv tag on Map Features
to clarify that this also includes taxis.

Matthias