Has anyone actually been fined for riding their bike in a bus lane? If so where in London?
heard of quite a few been fined on A11 Whitechapel
Ride without any fines from the City down to Docklands, although if your around Waterloo be careful as they are good on the cameras there, you even get a nice video on the website as well too watch which is free when you pay your fine! how considerate is that
Tall Paul
Never been caught myself but a guy i work with has been done three times on the A4 in Kensington.
Is it a £100 fine?
Last i heard it was £80 but no doubt it has gone up,unlike my wages i may add.
I better watch out around Waterloo! I’m expecting a few fines in the post. Presumably there are no points involved?
No points, think ot was 50 quid if you pay within 14 days though (or 40 not sure)
Paul
I was fined on Brixton Hill a few years back, and kicked up a real stink about the leaflets they include not mentioning bikes, the fact that bikes are exempt from congestion charge hence aren’t considered as contributing to congestion which is what they keep banging on about with bus lanes. I’m not saying it was solely because of these letters, but shortly afterwards Lambeth decided to make the whole section a ‘bus lane experiment’ which allowed bikes in.
How serious are people about this, 'cos I’m pretty sure that a letter-writing campaign with the right emphasis could turn bus lanes our way. They find it very difficult to talk their way out of their own arguments and basically end up admitting that it’s another revenue exercise.
Was fined in Islington as was the bloke who nicked my bike the next day!!
I’m sure I read somewhere that Tfl where looking at allowing bikes to use bus lanes. Perhaps it would be a good time for London bikers to inundate Tfl with letters or better still a petition…
I was fined on Clerkenwell Road, sent a pleading letter in stating I was only going around a stationary vehicle and no buses were hurt during the making of their film. The didn’t see the funny side and sent me back a few pictures showing me in the bus lane covering a fair distance in not many seconds…I paid the fine
Only been caught in the car, 7-7 bus lane on the South Circular between Forest Hill and Catford. Turned right into the Petrol Station then left back out of it at 11.00 in the morning. The sign was before the station so if you went in one way and out the other nobody saw it.
So may people complained after the Ptrol station put a notice up they they recinded all the fines and have now moved the sign so you can see it as you come out.
H
Been fined in Islington on the Holloway Road (notorious). The price is dependant on the borough.
Some buses can also photograph you in a bus lane, but never had hassle that way, despite using bus lanes at Angel intersection almost every morning. (fingers crossed).
TFL are trialing bikes in bus lanes on the M4 from Heathrow, and apparantly Ken is into it.
Not been done myself, but a mate has been done a couple of times for going into them on the A1, not certain exactly where but it must be somewhere south of Crouch End 'cos that’s where he lives.
See loads of bikes in the bus lane on the A23 before the bit where they start allowing bikes to use it in Streatham, dunno if they ever get pulled for it.
Did hear a bloke moaning on the radio that he’d been done for driving in one when he’d just used it to get past someone turning right, they insisted that he still had to pay even though it was Xmas day & buses don’t run on Xmas day !!
Yes - been fined on New Kent Road where there are cameras all over! Thought it was later than it was - dimwit! The fine was £50 if paid within 2 weeks - I coughed up.
I’ve also been fined for taking a right where there there was a no right-turn sign - just off frith in fact - and also for going up a one-way street which was a sincere mistake when I was lost somewhere near Camden - all been fifty quidders.
I always check for cameras now before taking short-cuts and the like in town.
As per RiderK4, the problem these days is that we sometimes make genuine mistakes when in unfamiliar areas i.e. turn into a one way (yes I know there are big signs but with the sheer number of road signs these days I tend to get information overload). Few year ago a bobby would have stopped you, told you the error of your ways. I would have appologised and stated I was lost, he would have given me direction and I would have been on my way. Now there are scameras everywhere and virtually no way to appeal. Pha! Sod the lot of them. Rant over.
Also, check this out http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5104750.stm