Bikers in bus lanes?

[Eng_dave]

Living in central East Auckland bus lanes are springing up like summer flowers, Its seems half of them have a little Bike symbol going into them half of them don't. It don't matter I travel in the lane with least people less chance of getting smacked by another thoughtless zombie in their early morning cage commute. I haven't been fined yet and I wave to the Auckland transport guy filming Khyber Pass road everyday in the happy knowledge my license is behind me and not on camera.

[Fatt Max]

Living in central East Auckland bus lanes are springing up like summer flowers, Its seems half of them have a little Bike symbol going into them half of them don't. It don't matter I travel in the lane with least people less chance of getting smacked by another thoughtless zombie in their early morning cage commute. I haven't been fined yet and I wave to the Auckland transport guy filming Khyber Pass road everyday in the happy knowledge my license is behind me and not on camera.

Love your words big man, greatly put

[Ixion]

Living in central East Auckland bus lanes are springing up like summer flowers, Its seems half of them have a little Bike symbol going into them half of them don't. It don't matter I travel in the lane with least people less chance of getting smacked by another thoughtless zombie in their early morning cage commute. I haven't been fined yet and I wave to the Auckland transport guy filming Khyber Pass road everyday in the happy knowledge my license is behind me and not on camera.

Within Auckland City, any non-motorway bus lane is legal for bikes, no matter what symbols they may have. Ditto any T2 or T3 lanes on motorways etc, anywhere. Whether they have a bike symbol or not. North Shore, Manukau, Waitemata, any bus lanes that do not specifically exclude motorcycles (there may not be any that exclude motorcycles , I don'know. In Auckland city none of the bus lanes exclude bikes). The only bus lanes you cannot ride in (even there the law is dodgy at best, and a volunteer to challenge it would be warmly welcomed) are the motorway bus lanes and the busway thing.

[swbarnett]

In Auckland city none of the bus lanes exclude bikes

I know of one - Wellesley St. between Mayoral Drive and Queen St.

[Forest]

still to be tested in a court of law as far as i'm aware. but i don't have enough money for a pair of vibrating pussy lips let alone a lawyer (is there a difference?)

Whenever I'm in Auckland, I always make a point of riding on the bus lanes on the bridge approaches.

It is my only regular act of civil disobedience.

I haven't been pulled up. But I know that others have been.

[Squiggles]

I know of one - Wellesley St. between Mayoral Drive and Queen St.

Its probably a "pedestrian mall" like alfred st which runs through the university (i intend to challenge that one)

[swbarnett]

Its probably a "pedestrian mall" like alfred st which runs through the university (i intend to challenge that one)

No, it's just a normal road. They turned the stretch between Mayoral dirve and Lorne St. into a bus only lane a while ago. This means that if you come off the motorway and want to get to Wellesley St. west (legally) you have to take Mayoral Drive and come back down Queen St., then do a left back into Wellesley St.

[Counter-Steer]

Brothers mate, a lawyer, got a nice picture in the mail due to travelling in the buslane up Esmonde rd, North shore. He did his research, and sent his findings back to the police. If the sign reads "Buses only" you cannot ride in it. But if it reads plain "Bus Lane" you are legally allowed to use it. Apparently that stretch of bus lane has since been re-labelled... lol. For the record he got off the fine, but they did not admit he was right...