Not sure if this driver thought they had discovered a cheat code for getting over the bridge quickly in peak hour or they genuinely didn’t realise. Going to be an expensive toll.
Posted by snipdockter
Not sure if this driver thought they had discovered a cheat code for getting over the bridge quickly in peak hour or they genuinely didn’t realise. Going to be an expensive toll.
Posted by snipdockter
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My friend did it by accident because he’d never driven across the bridge before and he never received a fine.
I don’t miss catching the bus, especially on a rainy day. I’m so happy the metro exists now.
I am sure this is their first rodeo .. gonna be a costly one.
As per NRMA , 1 demerit point and 410$ fine
Less or more than the fine for using a phone whilst driving a bus 🤔
Honestly pretty simple mistake.
I remember working with a bloke that missed the Kirribilli turn off 3 times in one day going over the bridge and paying 3 tolls for it.
Maybe a specialist Police vehicle or Corrective service vehicle, very dark tint.
Could be a hired car
Are you in the same lane taking pics of them ?.
I copped one during roadworks back in 2017.
The camera photo even captured the digital sign pointing cars into the bus lane since lanes 5&6 were closed.
Sent that photo back to them, along with an email from the company doing the bridge works saying it was the only lane available for westbound traffic and SRO revoked the fine.
It isn’t 24/7 a bus lane
I’m not trying to find an excuse for this person, but the lanes on the SHB are poorly marked, incorrectly signed (in some places) and very confusing.
At one stage there was a small marked lane going to absolutely nowhere other than straight into a concrete barrier. It was only fixed at the beginning of this year, after being that way for months and months.
It’s an absolute cluster fuck, even for those of us who travel on it on a regular basis.
If you’re not familiar with the approach to the Bridge (from either side but especially from the shit fight that is the southbound approach) it can be very daunting. I’d give any driver the benefit of the doubt here.
The whole harbor bridge roads is such a clusterfuck it’s not surprise this person ended up in bus lane. I fucking hate going to th city, they couldn’t of made it more confusing.
My cousin visiting from Cairns was in total driving shock when he crossed the bridge for the first time in 40 years. He ended up completely lost and ended up in the bus lane. Said he had no idea wtf was going on. Poor bugger ended up in the cbd . No fines.
Unless he was in it past the two bus lane cameras, or was unfortunate enough to be caught by a cop, three fifths of fuck all.
The two cameras on the northside approach are about the only enforcement there is.
I think you can use this one at times to get across lanes otherwise you get stuck in the very left lane of the bridge.
My pet hate when I was a bus driver was fools who would use the bus only lane then sit at a bus light and not go when the B light changes so we get stuck not being able to use the priority light. To say it was infuriating is an understatement, all this money spent on infrastructure to make public transport more reliable and all it takes is a clueless numpty to throw it all out the window.