Campaigner Simon Brookes, 61, of Westbury-on-Trym, started a protest after being incensed at the queues building up since the installation of the bus lane on Westbury Road in March.
Mr Brookes has been supported by local residents as well as his Conservative ward councillors Alastair Watson and Geoff Gollop and Bristol North West MP Charlotte Leslie.
They met yesterday morning at White Tree roundabout where some queuing motorists sounded their horns in support with the occasional driver disagreeing.
Mr Brookes' group, labelled "This bus lane is madness", claims that Bristol City Council refuse to admit there is a problem.
But Bristol's transport leader Tim Kent said the council accepted traffic was worse since measures were put in by the roundabout but says it may not be the fault of the bus lane.
He said several areas were being investigated to solve traffic flow but admitted it would be "perverse to keep the bus lane" if it did prove to be the main problem.
Mr Brookes said: "In March they introduced the bus lane and the huge tailbacks started.
"The council has totally ignored the views of respondents – 82 per cent of whom said it was a bad idea – as well as the views of local councillors and the MP.
"This affects the image of Bristol and has an impact on business and trade in the city. It delays people and produces pollution – it is just badly thought out.
"It is an absolute nonsense. They have created a massive problem which was not here before. The council should grow up and admit they have made a mistake. It's unbelievable."
Local residents Charlotte Galvin-Wright , 46, of Westbury Park and John Pritchard, 67, of Westbury-on-Trym showed their support for the campaign.
Mrs Galvin-Wright said: "It's absolutely dreadful. I have changed my route into Bristol just to avoid it.
"I can't understand why they changed something that was perfectly good already."
Mr Pritchard added: "I can't believe it. I am very concerned about how the traffic has slowed up. Personally I think it is madness."
Bristol North West MP Charlotte Leslie added: "This is an example of why people get so fed up with the council," she said.
"This was so obviously going to go wrong and when people are having their money spent we need a common sense approach. We need to live on planet reality and not planet politics. It's a very expensive mistake."
Westbury-on-Trym Tory ward councillor Alastair Watson said: "There has been an incredible increase in queues at this roundabout and I find the council's refusal to do anything about it is staggering.
"There is more pollution and the irony is the lane does not even speed up the buses because they get caught in the queues waiting to get to the bus lane."
Mayor and fellow Tory ward councillor Geoff Gollop added: "What people don't see is the rat run effect this is causing.
"I can't understand why the council don't admit there is a problem."
Lib Dem Mr Kent, council member in charge of transport for Bristol, said: "We have admitted it is worse than it was before. There is a significant traffic queue there, you would have to blind not to see it.
"Clearly the bus lane is an issue but it was not the only change that was made so we are investigating other changes in the area first.
"People assume it is the bus lane because it is what people see but we believe the work down on the roundabout may be having more of an effect.
"However if it does turn out to be that the bus lane is the main cause of the problem it would be perverse to keep it."
Mr Kent said it would be mid-September before it could be established what the problem was.
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