Drumcondra - Additional Bus Lane

I couldnt believe it when I saw the works last week. This has really pi**ed me off anytime I had the misfortune to be driving up that way during rushhour. I dont care if the bus lane doesnt make any difference at least I wont be looking at that bit of wall at St Pats and thinking I'd love to ram it and knock it. :-)

Seriously I wonder will it make much difference. There always seems to be a bit of free air behind this bottleneck once people have let each other in etc. I do think that road should get priority lights etc as it's one of the main routes out of the city and gets traffic out onto the M50 M1 etc.

of course the other option would be to allow light commercials to use the Port Tunnel for free or even the €3 at all times and that would then take a good bit of pressure off this route.

This used to add 10-15 minutes on some bad wet days to my commute to Swords in the old days. That was, however, pre port tunnel but I imagine it still causes nightmares.

This is at the Cat & Cage isnt it? Glad thats going ahead, its a really silly little bottleneck. It'll be far from avoiding the chaos that is that part of Dublin in the mornings and evenings but it'll help.

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http://www.dublincity.ie/swiftlg/apas/run/wphappcriteria.display

dublin city council reference

Thread here -

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057019601

any updates or current photos for this work?

I saw last week in the independent property section that the cat and cage pub is up for sale, if the council had the money they should go in for it , because if they really want to sort out the city bound traffic they'll have to demolish the couple of properties in the way, which the pub is one of them. Probably never happen anyway.

Subpopulus wrote: »

Surely the fact they're pushing the road 5 or 6 metres to the west means that they won't have to demolish any buildings?

Is it that wide? I thought they were adding a single bus northbound bus lane. If they did widen it fully at that point, it would be more of a chicane than a road

Subpopulus wrote: »

There's bus lanes in both directions, with cycle lanes.

Here's the drawing:

http://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/content//RoadsandTraffic/MajorTransportProjects/Documents/MDT0596PL0001EW%20A02.pdf

Ahh will you go away with your ole drawings and dont be trying to confuse the issues with facts. We were just getting it all worked up nicely in to a good ole rant about how we cant do anything properly in Ireland and if this was in another country they'd have fitted in a 7 tier free flow airport as well :-)

I cant wait to come up through this in the evening rush hour when it's open. i dont care if it makes any difference, I just have a sever hate for that piece of wall that juts out blocking the bus lane.

On another note they should re-designate the lanes on hte bridge and make the bus lane continuous. There's always cars going up the inside, legally, and then having to queue to try get back in and avoid the bus lane (unless they are driving a van with Northern plates!!) . It's only a very short section and the disruption to the flow is probably not worth it.

thanks for the above explanation, what an absolute joke though! I attempted to come down the swords road at 8am this morning, big mistake, absolute joke at Collins avenue, no doubt compounded by the bus lane merging at the cat and cage, several years for a critical 80-100m bus lane, pathetic!

Collins Avenue has it's own problems :mad::mad::mad:

The Corpo allowed Bord Gais/St Pats build a gas main just inside the old walls of st pats about 7 years ago.

This had to be moved, before any widening could happen.
The project was then split up into smaller projects of lower cost.
I don't know if this project splitting would have avoided open tendering rules?

The Drumcondra road got downgraded from a N to R road, so the funding is from the corpo pockets, not the nra's

Probably none of the decision makers in the corpo were affected by the slowness of the work...


just a few reasons/excuses

:-D anybody up that way have any pics? will be v handy getting to airport

I went last night. The cycle lane's ... "interesting" northbound...