Fair play to Dublin Bus Drivers

Yes Leeson St was *crazy* last night.... the bus lane was full of buses the whole way back, partly due to cars blocking the bus lane.
I'm sure it continued back around the green.

Anyone on a 15 was lucky last night as they got to use Earlsfort Terrace after the 'Green. There were literally dozens of 46As and 145s stuck between Kildare Street and Donnybrook in crawling traffic.

Isn't it bus lane all the way to Stillorgan DC and beyond thru Donnybrook ?

Gardai would probably do more harm than good. Think Operation Freeflow.

spareman wrote: »

It was reported by Donnybrook bus control and said it was "Low Priority" at the time.

That says it all really. I called DCC Traffic about a car parked in the bus lane on Dawson St at rush hour on Thursday and half an hour later the clampers still hadn't arrived. Presumably blocking a city centre bus lane is low priority too. Fair play to the bus drivers in situations like that - if I was driving a bus that size and saw someone that ignorant, I'd have done my best to shove the car all the way up Dawson St and into Trinity.

Quote Murphaph: "As usual the Traffic Corps haven't got a clue." :cool

Sadly I believe it`s worse....far worse than just not having a clue.

It`s now blindingly apparent that the entire State has a major problem with it`s law enforcement capability.
Road Traffic Laws unfortunately come far down the list of items which An Garda Siochana consider as a priority.

This is not to denigrate individual members of the force but it is now very clear that senior Garda/Dept of Justice management are verging on incapable of dealing with their remit.

It is now quite clear to the "customers" of An Garda Siochana,the general public,that there is something very seriously amiss with the Training and Motivation of the force.

The forces senior management has fallen for the same smoke n mirrors stuff which enthralled many of the UK forces from the late 1980`s on.

Diversity Programmes,Equality Programmes,Multicultural Respect Initiatives,Community Policing and many other such intellectually challenging stuff all began to assume a high profile role in Ordinary policing.

Each new item requires a course or two for all members and plenty of classroom work which might even include a written test.....

These modules all take up manpower and keep it sitting around thinking of esetoric issues when out in the real world the savages are happily running rampant everywhere in the full knowledge that they can rely on the Juvenile Liason Officer to (yet again) get them off the hook.

So too is it with Traffic, as a rapidly increasing number of drivers are emboldened to draw up their own rules and impose them on others.......

Last Friday afternoon a lady driver made a last minute right turn from St Stephens Green East into Hume St against the one way traffic flow.
The driver in question had spotted a vacant parking space in Hume St and was intent on occupying it.

However she had to misfortune to meet the oncoming (Legal) traffic head on and an impasse ensued.

What happened next..?

Well...in for a penny,in for a metric pound...our fragrant lady opens her door and marches up to the lead driver and gesticulates to the vacant space while waving her arms about....

Perhaps she was Mrs McAleese,Imelda Marcos,Lady Thatcher or even Mary O Rourke out shopping but her insistance paid off as the first two cars reversed back to facilitate the lady`s grand entrance into "HER" HUme St space.

That`s about where we`re at after 80 years of Independence,a nation that quite clearly has great difficulty appreciating the finer points of Civic Responsibility and more particularly the Greater or Common Good...Our driver had struck a blow for common sense I suppose...all them oul signs and stuff are there for everybody else...but surely not ME ?

Once again the total absence of Garda presence only served to underline yet again the sensation of living in a TV sitcom rather than a functional independent state.....