The A13 Trunk Road (Tower Hamlets) (Bus Lanes) Traffic Order 1994

Exemptions relating to crossing and turning traffic

7.  A person who causes or permits a vehicle to enter a bus lane shall not contravene article 5 if–

(a) the vehicle enters a bus lane from a road which does not comprise the bus lane and then forthwith leaves the bus lane through the gap in the single white line situated opposite and adjacent to the junction of that road with a bus lane, or if there is no such gap, at a point opposite that road;

(b) the vehicle enters the bus lane from an adjacent part of the road through any gap in the single white line and then forthwith enters a road which lies opposite that gap;

(c) in a case where there is no gap in the single white line opposite and adjacent to the junction between the bus lane and a road which does not comprise the bus lane (“the other road”), the vehicle enters the bus lane from an adjacent part of the road which comprises the bus lane and then forthwith enters the other road;

(d) the vehicle enters the bus lane from any vehicular accessway or crossing over the footway adjoining the bus lane and forthwith leaves the bus lane at a point opposite that vehicular accessway or crossing; or

(e) the vehicle enters the bus lane from an adjacent part of the road at a point opposite any vehicular accessway or crossing over the footway adjoining a bus lane and then forthwith enters that vehicular accessway or crossing.