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Perhaps so the buses can still get past when other buses break down there or when hapless fools decide that just stopping is the best way to deal with having taken the wrong turn? Or, like on the little bus/contraflow cycle lane at the other end of Stoke Lane, when coach or taxi drivers fancy a fag break.