During the bus strike in 2000 people WERE allowed to use the bus lanes.
The logic now is that the lanes must be kept free for taxis and private buses.
This is crazy. People are being forced to use their cars but they cannot avail of the bus lanes which are now even emptier than usual.
This backs up my theory that bus lanes were not created to make bus travel faster. They were created to make driving more annoying and so to drive people out of their cars.
The things that are annoying about bus lanes are:
1) They reduce the space available for other road users
2) They spend most of their time being empty
3) People are continuously driving up them and then cutting out in front of people who stay out of them
If bus lanes were intended to REALLY help the situation then people who are willing to car pool would have been allowed to use them years ago. But they're not - they're just there to annoy drivers.
