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Thought this may amuse here.

I was driving into Cardiff along Newport Road earlier today. It's 3 lanes with the left lane turning into a bus lane part way down. It's busy, close to capacity but flowing pretty nicely.

In the left lane, approaching the bus lane was some guy in a Fiesta. Upon realising that it was a bus lane, they dropped the anchors to avoid entering it and stuck their left signal on.. nobody let them in and they were presumably too paranoid about fines to just drive down the bus lane

It took them a good couple of minutes to get into L2 (I let them in) and up until that point the two buses stuck behind the Fiesta had to wait, blocking up the crossroads so people couldn't turn left.

At the next set of lights, about 100 yards down the road, the Fiesta then moved back into L1 when the bus lane ended, pulling in front of the two buses it had been obstructing earlier, and made a left turn.

The buses would've got to where they were going much quicker if the Fiesta had just ignored the restriction and drove down the bus lane.

That's what jobsworthy law enforcement does to people.

They made an amazing one on cheltenham road in gloucester a few years ago.

T junction, traffic light controlled with main road north & south having lions share (maybe 90%) of the green. traffic flowing south & turning right had a filter lane, and they, and the cars turning out the side road, had short green lights to do this. worked perfectly.

prats from the council whacked a 50 yard bus lane down the side and made all the cars traveling south queue up behind the right turners, so now north and southbound traffic have to share the same time, say about 45% each of total time. The bus lane stood empty because it only began 7 cars back, and all the busses, instead of flowing freely, queued with the traffic, which went right back to elm bridge roundabout and clogged up the A40.

Probably one of the most spectacular examples of utter incompetence and stupidity in road engineering I've ever witnessed. I hope my explanation makes sense, if not I'll do a diagram.

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Is anyone naive enough to think that these are for the benefit of busses, and not for the inconvenience of private motorists?

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That's why I found this so hilarious. Apart from the Fiesta driver, no car was delayed at any point (well until I decided to let them in) but the two buses were held up for a good couple of minutes.

Cardiff council apparently fail at creating "Kengestion"