Almost 1,000 motorists per day have been fined in just five months for driving along bus lanes on a Manchester road.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-43168921
Apparently, the independent adjudicator has ruled that
bus gate signs had too much information on so were confusing
As a critic of confusing signs, I'm cautious about how I view this but perhaps it's worth remembering that whenever there's any sort of survey or quiz about road sign recognition, the "flying motorbike" is the widely-used sign that confuses a lot of people.
I don't know if there's more to this than meets the eye. ie Is it really about a lot of drivers over a period of several months being confused as the image with this report suggests, or is there something else, such as an expectation of there not really being any enforcement ie camera signs are a bluff? I believe that around here, quite a lot of drivers are caught turning into bus lanes just before they end to allow left-turning at a junction. Obviously, there are horror storeys eg somebody with a scrapped moped on the Isle of Skye (or somesuch combination of distance and vehicle unlikely to be in leeds) received a Leeds bus lane infringement notice when the images showed something else, and it was reported that somebody queuing in traffic in Bradford received a notice for stopping at a bus stop. Whatever the facts with these occasional stories, they don't excuse or indeed explain substantial non-compliance.
PS I've posted several times about a similar situation involving Lendal Bridge in York eg
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