THE story about the bus lane by the Designer Outlet shopping centre (Advertiser, February 5) was very interesting, but it would be even more interesting to know what happens at other bus lanes and bus gates across the town. 
There are many of them and I would be surprised if lots of motorists hadn’t been caught using them and forced to cough up £30.
I do believe signage is a problem, but it’s not exclusive to Swindon.
I went to Bath recently, and while I have visited that city many times, I am not terribly familiar with its road system. 
So there I was driving through the city centre looking for directions for a car park I was looking for when I found myself waiting at a red traffic light. 
And I waited, and waited. And the realisation dawned on me that I perhaps wasn’t where I should be, and that quite possibly I was in a bus lane/gate.
Sure enough, I received notice from the council at Bath a couple of weeks later and I had to pay £30.
I do not think the signs there were clear, as in the Swindon example, and it is people not familiar with the towns they are visiting who probably suffer the most.
I don’t know what the answer is, but Swindon Borough Council ought to sit up and take notice of that number – 10,000 motorists caught in six months is an extraordinary figure and something isn’t right somewhere.
But of course, the onus is on the motorists themselves – pay attention to your driving, heed the signs and you won’t get caught.
I’ll remember my own advice next time I’m in Bath.
G MORRISON
Stratton St Margaret, Swindon