Also in national news https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-63517354

For having driven in UK for few years I am so not surprised...

I tried to post this yesterday and got a message saying this had already been posted :/

I first tried about 8 hours before this was accepted and it got eaten by an automated filter because I used the share button on my phone and it changed the title slightly. It was posted and autoremoved and blocked everything else. Reddit's built-in filters are a bit fragile. I've hounded the mods here enough over this though.

I'm glad one of us got to it!

What on earth was the bus driver thinking? That's a bus lane, mate. You can't park there.

It had been.

This is a repost too.

In Sheffield, motorcycles are allowed in all the bus lanes, apart from 3 specific stretches where it's busses only at certain times of the day and open to all vehicles the rest of the time. Sheffield calls these bus's gates which aren't in the highway code and doesn't sign these differently, and doesn't sign motorcycles allowed explicitly in enough of their bus lanes for the lack of a list of allowed vehicles to be permitted. You just have to know, presumably from getting a fine.

Obviously these things make the councils too much money.

Also Leeds, paid for motorcycle parking on advance, couldn't use the carpark because the number plate recognition only works on the front of vehicles.

The person replying to my email about that was a director of the parking service and gave me several abusive phone calls about how it's illegal to remove the front number plate from a motorcycle. In the UK it's illegal to show one on the front of a motorcycle made after a certain date.

“Bitch that’s a bus”

Local councils in the UK are the most pedantic little tight arses in the world. They were the ones who got roughed up in school, and now get to take their frustrations out on their little domains.

You just gotta back up into the carpark!