Beware new bus lane camera on Lordship Lane near junction of Overhill Road

[Rockets]

....it's pinging anyone who even puts one wheel inside the bus lane as they turn left onto Overhill.

TFL guidance is that they give you 20 metres or four car lengths grace if turning left into a junction across a bus lane but Southwark are not using that and issuing fines for the slightest infraction.

Southwark's manta seems to be....If You Touch The Line You Get A Fine and a lot of people are falling foul of it as the gap from the solid bus lane line and the hash marks for the pedestrian crossing is really small (interesting that Southwark did not put a broken line ahead of the junction which some are suggesting is deliberate to create a revenue-generating fine hot-spot).

[first mate]

Proof, if proof were needed, that it is all about making money. If you drive in a bus lane that is one thing, but to brush or touch the line and still get fined is altogether different.

[Rockets]

Absolutely. Clearly the council has laid a revenue-generating trap and I bet it is raking it in. The ludicrous thing is that if you did the same at the junction of Underhill 100 metres further up the road TFL would not have a problem with that. How are drivers supposed to know when there is no consistency?

How can councils be allowed to set their own rules, over-zealously police it to levels not matched by TFL and not then admit it is about targetting drivers for revenue-generation?

Edited Tuesday at 11:09 by Rockets