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Edinburgh cuts bus lane hours and opens them to motorbikes

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

Andrew Forster
05 September 2014
Bus lanes: shorter operating hours
Bus lanes: shorter operating hours

 

The city of Edinburgh Council is to let motorcyclists use the city’s bus lanes and is to convert 14 miles of all-day bus lanes into peak hour-only operation. 

The initiatives will be implemented initially on a trial basis and were agreed following a review of the city’s 40-mile bus lane network. 

Edinburgh’s acting director of services for communities, John Bury, told councillors that Police Scotland supported allowing motorcycles into the lanes and...

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