| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Changes to bus lane at the Lido Junction | |
| Posted by: | Chris Veasey | |
| Date/Time: | 06/08/09 19:12:00 |
| Don't need to go out into the rain - can see it on Google streetview, on which can almost read the waiting restriction timeplate (probably Mon-Sat daytime) and can also see it's accompanied by peak hours loading restrictions. Thus during daytime offpeak motor vehicles can stop at the kerbside (blocking the advisory cycle lane, however regrettable that may be) for up to 20 mins for loading or unloading heavy, bulky or valuable goods (ordinary shopping bags don't count); up to 2 mins for setting down and picking up passenger(s); or up to 3 hours if diaplaying a disabled persons' Blue Badge which the driver is eligible to use either because they are the badgeholder or because they are transporting the badgeholder for the badgeholder's purpose(s). Outside the waiting restriction times (eve/night/early morning/ all Sunday) any vehicle can be parked there for as long as they please. Advisory cycle lanes have no legal standing in respect of motor vehicle stopping/parking, whatever you or anybody else may think of that. Re your suggestion re blanket bus routes parking ban (presumably including goods deliveries, Blue badge parking etc): bus services and their users may be an important road user category, but are just one of several, if not many. What makes them the supreme 'kings/queens of the road' to the exclusion of all other users who have good reason to need to stop at the roadside? Re parking lights near junctions I'm not sure of such a statute exists, but if it does it is an archaic and outdated one for which modern urban street lighting standards have eliminated any safety need. |