Motorbikes and scooters in bus lanes

The Department for Transport wants to allow motorbikes to use bus lanes. The London Cycling Campaign is less keen

According to the CTC "per mile travelled, [motorbikes] are about 1.5 as likely as cars to be involved in collisions which cause serious injury to cyclists, twice as likely to be involved in causing them serious injuries and about three times as likely to be involved in killing them.

Hopefully Lewisham Council will get back to me soon with their plans for allowing motorbikes in bus lanes.

Buses tend to be patient and tolerant of cyclists and happy to warn me of problems. Cars are rare in the bus lanes that I use - possibly because of better enforcement (although they use the bus lane to undertake right turning vehicles). But motorbikes and cyclists don't seem to mix at all.

Cyclists use the bus lane to overtake other bikes, to avoid potholes and to move around buses at bus stops. Allowing a fast moving motorbike into the mix of buses and cyclists will only increase the risk of collision - especially as the number of cyclists and motorbikes increases.