Edinburgh Council - Bus Lane

[BREMBOV6]

Have received a fine for partly driving in the bus lane on Drum brae South. However picture is me driving the vehicle half on the 'road' and half in the bus lane what the picture doesn't show is a car in front of me turning right to go down Craig's Road. I must have entered the bus lane for less than 30 seconds so I could pass this stationary vehicle/obstruction.

Is this simply not allowed?

I recall one car in front and one behind doing the same.

Sick fed up of Edinburgh Council. Don't even get me started on this 'spaces for people' nonsense, the whole of Edinburgh looks horrendous with all these poles everywhere. I'm a fairly keen road cyclist myself and it doesn't make any sense.

[sherman]

You crossed the white line you pay the fine. In the eyes of the council you should have just waited.

Spaces for people is a nonsense. The road to the royal infirmiry from cameron toll is downright dangerous with the bollards too.

[Polome]

You've got my sympathy as you sure won't get any from Edinburgh council...as a car driver in the capitol your a marked man ( sorry ..person) the cycle lane at the west end of Ferry road is particularly gauling. The cyclists have a proper cycle path ( for around 20 plus years) that runs parallel along the length of Ferry road approx 150 yards to the north of the "new" one , so as far as I can see don't need another. Yet again the council planners have created another traffic bottleneck on the main A1 route to frustrate the working population . How I wish these planners would give slight thought and consideration the financial contributions we make to the city. We need to use our vote now.

[saaby93]

sherman said:

You crossed the white line you pay the fine. In the eyes of the council you should have just waited.

They've got to raise money somehow to pay for the installation.

[sherman]

saaby93 said:

sherman said:

You crossed the white line you pay the fine. In the eyes of the council you should have just waited.

They've got to raise money somehow to pay for the installation.

Its all done by cameras. If you cross the line its a fine. Its harsh but theres no human input to consider the situation.

Theres a few bus lane/ gate cameras in stupid places that just make money for the council sround edinburgh.

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Polome said:

You've got my sympathy as you sure won't get any from Edinburgh council...as a car driver in the capitol your a marked man ( sorry ..person) the cycle lane at the west end of Ferry road is particularly gauling. The cyclists have a proper cycle path ( for around 20 plus years) that runs parallel along the length of Ferry road approx 150 yards to the north of the "new" one , so as far as I can see don't need another. Yet again the council planners have created another traffic bottleneck on the main A1 route to frustrate the working population . How I wish these planners would give slight thought and consideration the financial contributions we make to the city. We need to use our vote now.

I stay in South Queensferry and they have put these poles up along the High Street. Its genuinely laughable and the same as above a great cycle track is located less than 500ft away. The High Street is also all cobbles so who would want to cycle on that, experienced, new, young or old. Silverknowes also looks like the Dubai F1 circuit.

Utter disgrace.

[Patch1875]

Imagine what it will be like when normality returns.

City full of tourists trying to get around during the festival and Xmas will be impossible.

[sherman]

Patch1875 said:

Imagine what it will be like when normality returns.

City full of tourists trying to get around during the festival and Xmas will be impossible.

Festival, I wouldnt be hopeful of fully happening this year.
Christmas, the market will be spread all over the city centre so might not be so bad. It wont all be in the gardens again.
I would worry more about the chaos that the St James opening is going to entail.

[saaby93]

Has Edinburgh been doing ok since tourists have been banned?

[Patch1875]

sherman said:

Festival, I wouldnt be hopeful of fully happening this year.
Christmas, the market will be spread all over the city centre so might not be so bad. It wont all be in the gardens again.
I would worry more about the chaos that the St James opening is going to entail.

Wasn’t really thinking this year but when the spaces are fully implemented they won’t be going away.

[s2kjock]

It continues to baffle me how the city council ever gets re-elected - they seem to treat Edinburgh as a giant railway set they continually tinker with for a bit of fun. I can only assume that sufficient thickos vote for whatever their favourite colour is rather than who might best represent the interests of the people who live here, and we therefore end up with the current goons.

The "consultations" seem heavily biased in terms of not really enabling you to answer negatively, and are ignored if the answer is "wrong" anyway.

Does Boris Johnson not have to shoulder some of the blame for this spaces for people nonsense though if he provided extra UK funding for his green agenda?

[Polome]

s2kjock said:

It continues to baffle me how the city council ever gets re-elected - they seem to treat Edinburgh as a giant railway set they continually tinker with for a bit of fun. I can only assume that sufficient thickos vote for whatever their favourite colour is rather than who might best represent the interests of the people who live here, and we therefore end up with the current goons.

The "consultations" seem heavily biased in terms of not really enabling you to answer negatively, and are ignored if the answer is "wrong" anyway.

Does Boris Johnson not have to shoulder some of the blame for this spaces for people nonsense though if he provided extra UK funding for his green agenda?

That's a brilliant summation of our local cooncil....let's hope some of them read it..also agree with the consultations..mostly worded to guide the unwitting to the " correct " answer! I just don't bother any more..

[GeeMax]

The cycle lanes are a joke. Queensferry Road now.
How does this work? If I need to go into the petrol station I need to drive in the Cycle lane?
The sign for cyclists is laughably after the main entrance has been passed!

[Patch1875]

Longstone Road is a mare as well. Parking spaces basically in the middle of the road with a cycle lane between them and the pavement. It now looks like it’s the q for the lights to get into Sainsbury’s.

[sherman]

Was stuck behind a bus at gilmerton road because of the bollards and new traffic calming outside the Morrisons. The road used to be 4 cars wide. Its now 2 cars wide and only going to get worse with all of the houses being built out the back of gilmerton.

[BREMBOV6]

GeeMax said:

The cycle lanes are a joke. Queensferry Road now.
How does this work? If I need to go into the petrol station I need to drive in the Cycle lane?
The sign for cyclists is laughably after the main entrance has been passed!

This doesn't make sense, what they are asking cyclists to do is cycle down some stairs, or walk the bike down but they are cycling past said retail park to loop back round who will do that, nobody.

What a mess, I haven't seen Blackhall for a while but this is utterly pointless when you have the main cycle path a stones throw from those pictures.

[Patch1875]

Can’t work out if it’s a krypton factor challenge or a crime scene.

[Beato]

GeeMax said:

The cycle lanes are a joke. Queensferry Road now.
How does this work? If I need to go into the petrol station I need to drive in the Cycle lane?
The sign for cyclists is laughably after the main entrance has been passed!

I am dreading having to go back to the office in Edinburgh. I need my car for work so no option but to take it in. This area is going to be carnage at rush hour

[sherman]

Beato said:

I am dreading having to go back to the office in Edinburgh. I need my car for work so no option but to take it in. This area is going to be carnage at rush hour

That area was so free flowing at rush hour before

Theres not a road in or out of Edinburgh that isnt carnage at rush hour.

[s2kjock]

Patch1875 said:

Can’t work out if it’s a krypton factor challenge or a crime scene.

It's utterly comical. From memory, those spaces are rarely used anyway - quite why you could not leave the spaces inside the cycle lane I don't know.

I wonder how long it will be before they ban vehicles from Dean Bridge - you now travel all along a supposedly safe cycle lane until you get to Dean Bridge before all traffic is shoehorned onto a narrow bottleneck - very iffy place to be on a bike by the looks of things with everyone trying to squeeze past you. One thing Thomas Telford I guess never envisaged!