SCHEDULE 19 (Part I) TO THE REGULATIONS: SIGNIFICANCE OF BUS STOP AND BUS STAND CLEARWAY MARKINGS
Schedule 19 (Part I) specifies the significance of the bus stop clearway marking to diagram 1025.1, 1025.3 or 1025.4 (see paras 9.18 to 9.24). In the schedule, “clearway” refers to both a bus stop and a bus stand; "bus stop clearway” refers to a bus stop, but not to a bus stand. The following is a summary of the requirements set out in Schedule 19 (Part I); for full details refer to Schedule 19.
A vehicle shall be taken to have stopped in the clearway if –
(a) any point within the clearway marking is below the vehicle or its load (if any); and
(b) the vehicle is stationary.
No person driving a vehicle shall cause it to stop within a clearway during the times indicated by a sign shown in diagram 974 or 975, or, where the times are omitted from those signs, at any time. The exceptions to the prohibition of stopping are–
(a) a bus providing a local service to–
(i) maintain a published timetable, but stopping for no more than 2 minutes in a bus stop clearway (no time limit for a bus stand);
(ii) enable passengers to board or alight; or
(iii) enable the crew of the bus to be changed;
(b) a vehicle being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes;
(c) a vehicle stopping with the permission of a constable in uniform, a traffic warden or, in a special parking area designated under the Road Traffic Act 1991, a parking attendant;
(d) a vehicle prevented from proceeding by circumstances beyond the driver's control, or to avoid injury or damage to persons or property;
(e) a taxi to allow passengers to board or alight (including loading or unloading of luggage);
(f) a marked vehicle being used for delivery or collection of postal packets;
(g) a learner bus driver, to simulate the picking up and setting down of passengers; or
(h) a vehicle being used for building purposes, removal of an obstruction, maintenance, cleaning of street furniture or utility works, provided that the vehicle cannot be used for those purposes without stopping in the clearway.
