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"Bus Lanes or Bus Pains?"

We thought this would be useful. The rules and regulations of the new A30 bus lanes.

We have been given the following information from an Engineer of the Surrey Heath Local Transportation Office dated 02.06.04.

"The Bus Lane is operational between 7am & 9.30am and 4pm & 7pm Monday to Friday inclusive and is restricted to use by buses, cycles, HGV's over 7.5 tonnes and Hackney Carriages only at these times. At all other times then the lane may be used by private motor vehicles."

So basically what this means is that ANY private motor vehicle can use the bus lanes at these key times:

1. ALL DAY Saturdays and Sundays.
2. On your busy lunchtime breaks Monday to Friday when you need to commute into or out off Camberley town.
3. Really the only times you cannot use them is during the rush hours Mon - Fri.

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Please see below for more useful information regarding the A30 bus lanes:

A30 London Road Bagshot - Bus Lanes and Clearway Revocation Order
London Road (A30) Bus Lane Notice_29_4_04.pdf (83 k)

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Other useful details:

• The Stagecoach Main Bus Service Routes that use the A30 and the bus lanes are Routes 1 (link), 3 (link) and 7 (link)
• The additional bus service using the A30 bus lanes is the 200 Basingstoke service (link)
• These buses will only be using the bus lanes on their journeys AWAY from Camberley due to the bus lanes only being on one side.

A table showing when these buses will be using these lanes when private vehicles are not permitted:

	Monday - Friday (the bus service times leaving from Camberley station - correct at time of writing)
Bus Service	Morning Services (7am - 9.30am)	Afternoon Services (4pm - 7pm)
Route 1	0710, 0730, 0740, 0750, 0800, 0810, 0820, 0830, 0840, 0850, 0900, 0910, 0920	1605,1615,1625,1635, 1644, 1654, 1704, 1714, 1724, 1734, 1744, 1755, 1805, 1815, 1830, 1845
Route 3	to follow ...	to follow ...
Route 7	to follow ...	to follow ...
200 Basingstoke	to follow ...	to follow ...

Also coming soon...

Q. So has there been an increase in customer use of the buses?
Q. Has there been an increase in carbon emissions (be it small) due to rush hour traffic jams?
Q. Has the service for Stagecoach customers improved?
Q. Are people using the bus lanes correctly and not breaking the law?

Hopefully we will have the answers soon!...