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MAG questions TfL reluctance on rider bus lane use
Transport for London (TfL) has yet again been criticised on the issue of allowing bikers to ride in bus lanes and the muddled nature of the trials it has conducted.
Since 2002, TfL has been gauging the effects of provisionally granting riders access to bus lanes on three major roads and last week reported that the tests had proved inconclusive and had, if anything, given more negative indications than positive.
The lengthiness of the process has irritated the Motorcycle Action Group (MAG), which has criticised the complex methodology used by TfL, as well as disagreeing with the conclusions that it drew from the tests, which it felt was too pessimistic.
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MAG's Greater London regional representative Gerard Livett commented after hearing the results: "What we have seen today represents a collision between road safety and political expediency.
"The safety argument has been blown out of the water and this now becomes a political and personal transport issue."
He warned that the capital's motorcyclists are now becoming increasingly frustrated with TfL's procrastination over the issue and argued that London's bus lanes should simply be made open to bikers as they are in other parts of the UK.
London Transport's findings have already been panned by the British Motorcyclists Federation, which also deemed the testing process it used to be overly convoluted and also felt that the conclusions that were derived from it to be far too negative.
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