I live on a modern estate which, for reasons best known to the Local Authority and developers, only has one public route in/out. There is also a bus lane at the other end of the estate, but it has never been used.
It's usually bollarded off (with fob-operated bollards), and has a CCTV camera on each entrance. If the bus lane was open to normal traffic, it would shave about 15mins off my northbound journeys, as well as allowing access to/egress from the estate when the access road is blocked.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/WESvB5Dzb9sLBbVa9?g_st=acOn Monday, I noticed that the top bollards had been switched off and, with the bottom bollards being activated estate-side by sensors in the road, was able to use the bus lane. This got me pondering...
The CCTV cameras seem to be a different make/model to the ones usually used by Norfolk County Council for bus lane cameras, there's no signage about bus lane cameras, and the NCC website doesn't list this as one of their enforcement locations. On that basis, is it likely that this is just standard CCTV and, without getting caught in person by a police officer or council official, there's no remote enforcement of the bus lane?