In message , Mortimer
writes
"Peter Heather" wrote in message
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On Dec 4, 3:11 pm, David Hansen
wrote:
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 06:50:32 -0800 (PST) someone who may be
wrote this:-

I dont know if it is related to the economic situation but recently I
have found that a lot more buses are waiting time at bus stops. Is
this strictly speaking legal.

Yes.

Actually, the answer could well be NO. It depends on the wording in
the traffic order, assuming that there is an order in force and that
there are yellow or red lines on the road at that point. Some, but not
all, traffic orders state that a bus can stop to pick up or set down
passengers at a stop, but there could well be no provision to wait at
that point beyond doing so. Also, if there is no reference to a bus
stop in the order, then a bus has no more right than any other vehicle
to wait on a restricted stretch of road. I've known over-enthusiastic
parking attendants in at least one nameless Inner London borough to
ticket buses while they stood at a stop with no passengers in sight.

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A coach in Oxford was ticketed for stopping for one minute to let a disabled
person on - which required letting down a mobility ramp.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/o...re/7763903.stm

A classic case of the letter of the law being seen to be more important than
its spirit, and a lack of common sense being applied.

Where do they get these jobsworths from - to quote David Jason as Inspector
Frost "Were you *born* cold-blooded? Or is there some sort of transfusion
you can get on the NHS these days?" ;-)

I suspect in the Oxford case there's more to this than meets the eye,
not least concerning the actual location of the incident. There's a
thread in uk.transport.buses on it at the moment.
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