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Hard shoulders to be open ?

  • 11-06-2004 9:40am
    #1
    laoisfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    Has anyone heard if the hard shoulders are going to be opened up to buses?

    Cheers!

    --laoisfan


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  • #2
    mike65
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    News to me! Where would this happen, Dublin or generally? Most Hard Shoulders are too damn narrow for a bus.

    Mike.


  • #3
    laoisfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭laoisfan


    anywhere there is a hard shoulder, especially leading in/out of dublin.

    example: commuter buses coming up from Mountrath/Mountmellick (Laois) to Dublin, the bus could use the hardshould from hard shoulders at Johnstown/Kill etc.

    I have been on and have seen plenty of buses do it.

    Aparrently, the Minister for Transport is looking at the idea and I have heard from one or two police officiers (no i was not in the hard shoulder) that it is an idea which is being considered.

    makes sense for cummuter buses etc.
    do not know about speed limit and safety.

    --laoisfan


  • #4
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    It was suggested, however there are obvious problems associated with it - nowhere for cyclists and pedestrians to go when a bus blows by at 50mph. Whatever about it's implementation in urban areas, it doesn't seem like a great idea in rural ones.


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