If we are to have the bus lane, we do not need to waste money on painting it.
However, the monitoring exercise has shown that the bus lane has not created significant problems for other road users.
The traffic could come along the nearside lane from the point where it joins the dual carriageway on to the bus lane.
The fine for an ordinary motorist using the bus lane may be as much as £100 and his licence may be endorsed.
It is, of course, illegal to park a car in a bus lane, certainly during the specified hours of that bus lane.
Convictions for driving in a bus lane cannot be distinguished from other offences connected with neglect of traffic directions in the statistics collected centrally.
For the rest of the day when no one is enforcing the bus lane scheme it is ignored totally.
However, because the police say that they cannot enforce it, the local authority is now proposing a 24-hour bus lane.
