This scheme effects anyone travelling by road into London and possibly any other town with bus lanes. If it is successful then it should ease congestion for all road users. It is not designed to annoy pedal cyclists but it clearly does. This may be because motorcyclists will actually stop at red traffic lights! I cut and pasted this from another forum with the writer’s blessing:-
Transport For London are receiving very few comments from motorcyclists about their new London-wide trial of motorcycles in red-route bus lanes. The latest news is that as part of the evaluation of the scheme “users views” will be taken into account and 'numbers responding' will play a part in this. Clearly none of us want to see a situation where 5,000 cyclists have protested and 200 motorcyclists support. It's this kind of thing that would shift the political balance against us. However, cyclists’ campaign groups are steadily orchestrating a build up of resistance to the measure, being well organised at grass roots level in the capital and elsewhere. TFL have already received large numbers of submissions from cyclists, opposing motorcycles in bus lanes. We risk losing the scheme at the end of the 18 month period unless the motorcycle world demonstrates widespread support for the measure. I urge all of you who read this to use this link to visit the TFL 'user views' website and complete the response form, which will take only about two minutes.
https://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/roadusers...s/default.aspxIf you're a member of any other biker’s social networking sites, could you start a thread on this? The cyclists are motivated and determined and see denying motorcycles access to bus lanes as a number one key goal. They have a strong and well motivated campaigning network. Unless we respond to this, we risk seeing this hard won concession denied to us after the experimental period has finished. The TFL scheme is being keenly watched outside London. It could come to a town near you!
