Are Barnet Council Guilty Of Misuse Of Government Funding On Bus Lanes That Exclude Taxis?

New bus lanes on East Finchley High Road and North Finchley

High Road, which Taxis have been totally excluded from and now can’t use. 

Amazingly, as a London Taxi driver, I’m allowed to use all the bus lanes in Brighton.... but there are increasingly more I’m not allowed to use not in London, the area that I’m licensed to ply for hire by TfL. 

This is total madness. 

What’s more, Barnet Council have used government money, that was intended to fund the provision of cycle lanes.

They have now installed two completely unnecessary stretches of bus lane, which they say were implemented to speed up bus journeys, and yet ironically, they are holding up the buses, which are now getting stuck in the half mile of stationary traffic on the approach to the new lanes. 

It’s an absolute shambles.