Oh no overtaking other cars.

[Pudsey Bear]

Stupidity at it's best, like the morons who get up set when you pass them in a merge in turn part of the road.

Driver overtakes 20 cars as 'they can't read signs' - but viewers are divided

A DRIVER has divided opinion with his spirited manoeuvres through traffic – even overtaking 20 cars queuing at lights. The viral video shows queueing cars on a typical rainy day with the traf…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[wildebus]

Stupidity at it's best, like the morons who get up set when you pass them in a merge in turn part of the road.

Driver overtakes 20 cars as 'they can't read signs' - but viewers are divided

A DRIVER has divided opinion with his spirited manoeuvres through traffic – even overtaking 20 cars queuing at lights. The viral video shows queueing cars on a typical rainy day with the traf…

www.thesun.co.uk

you can't really tell from the video but while the use of the bus lane is perfectly fine (assuming it was filmed within the permitted times), he seems to be going a bit too fast? (think the highway code says about when passing traffic on the left it should be done slowly?)

 

[DTDOG]

There is a section of road I use regularly that has a bus lane that is only in operation in the morning (I think it says 9:30am). I often 'undertake' cars on that section as they all queue in the outer lane while left lane (now not a bus lane as it is out of the hours) is completely empty. Yes, I feel smug, however they need to read (and understand) the highway code. As stated above by Wildbus, I don't go speeding passed as you will often get the odd driver seeing you and turning in to my lane.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I think the existing speed limit applies across the bus lane too out of hours or not, but caution is advised as people wake up and try to do likewise.

 

[trevskoda]

Brother inlaw says every day on the radio a call comes in when a bus is making its way up the left lane and some old doll in the right lane whacks open a taxi/car door, imbedding it into the bus grill.

 

[wildebus]

This buslane thing reminds me of a ticket I got for driving in a buslane in Hackney. Except I lived in Devon, not been to Hackney for years and it was done by a car I had sold a little while earlier
The Local Authority continued to demand money for the occurance despite me having the letter from DVLA confirming I was no longer the keeper of the vehicle, dated from before this offence. Apparently the DVLA record was irrelevant (despite presumably having got my name from DVLA. must have been during a cross-over of database updating?). In the end I had to write to them saying they will be charged for all further communications due to them wasted my time replying.

 

[RichardHelen262]

We have a couple of bus lanes here that are only operational for a couple of hours in the morning and again in the afternoon and most of the time I am the only one using it whilst the other lane is full of vehicles,
It suits me that other people cannot read the signs as I get a couple of miles of road to myself

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I mentioned the merge in turn signs but no one picked up on it, we have one coming away from Leeds/Bradford airport towards Leeds, it starts under the runway in a tunnel and to a car they all stay in the nearside lane and I just zoom past them and they go nuts beeping at you.

TBF there isn't an actual merge in turn sign, it's just two lanes coming into one, but one lane is hardly used seems a waste so I always go down the outside and wait for someone to let me in.

 

[GeoffL]

I mentioned the merge in turn signs but no one picked up on it, we have one coming away from Leeds/Bradford airport towards Leeds, it starts under the runway in a tunnel and to a car they all stay in the nearside lane and I just zoom past them and they go nuts beeping at you.

TBF there isn't an actual merge in turn sign, it's just two lanes coming into one, but one lane is hardly used seems a waste so I always go down the outside and wait for someone to let me in.

ISTM that, if the road planners didn't want motorists to use both lanes up to the merge point, they'd have painted the one they didn't want you to use with hatchings! Not using both lanes can lead to longer tailbacks causing unnecessary congestion where the tailback prevents others from turning into and out of junctions etc.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

There is one on the M1 to M621 in Leeds clearly marked and I always use the outside lane and people let you in no problem but no one in it.