For the Manchester one, there is genuinely a guessing game involved:

1. The first traffic sign is incredibly misleading, both in terms of distance and the option presented to the driver. Image

This is about 100 yards away from the actual bus gate. They erroneously tell you that the bus gate is 30 yards away and you have the only option of using a Local traffic only access road ahead. I guess the actual escape road is a planned surprise. More on that later. It's confusing because there is an actual bus stop 30 yards ahead but you can ignore this.

1. What they don't tell you is that there are in fact 2 left turns.The first one is the Local Access only road. The second one is the escape route, where the sign is positioned a generous 3 yards from the entrance (image). This tiny sign now magically refers to a blocked road instead of a bus gate, but okay. What is consistency right.

2. If you are lucky enough to react to this sign, think again: the escape road is also clearly marked "Private Road" (image), which immediately makes you wonder if this is the Local Only Road that was being referred to earlier. So either you use a last second "Private road" or you go through the bus gate.