Just venting on this one. I find it incomprehensible some people decide to park in the various transit lanes around Auckland right after the closure time. Both mornings and evenings..

It happens quite a lot on Auckland's busiest roads and even though the lanes officially close at 9 AM, traffic is still quite considerable at that time. The bottleneck a parked vehicle causes by buses having to move around it adds a huge amount of delay to the traffic backing up further down the road.

I know technically there is nothing illegal about parking in a transit lane at 09.01, but people doing this must realise the hassle they're causing by doing so.

I suppose extending the official hours of the T-lanes would take care of this problem but that wouldn't necessarily reduce vehicle loads because around this time using two or more lanes for traffic is very efficient to clear up the morning jams.