Bus Priority Junctions

markpb

Does anyone know if there are many of these in Dublin?

The only one I know is at Donnycarney - the junction with Collins Ave and Malahide road and it never works.

gibo_ie

there are a few, another is in front of Irish Life on Abbey Street, one when you are nearly at the Hardcourt Hotel from the city and a few more around the place. It gets the busses to the front of the queue at junction where there is no room for another lane. They still dont really get priority as such unfortunately!!

ballooba

At the Burlington Hotel there is a momentary green 'BUS' light to allow the 11 to get across to the right lane before the other lights go green. I think its a good idea.

Macy

N11 at the lights just after the Stillorgan Park Hotel (heading out of town).

murphaph

There's a newish one on the Lucan QBC where the road that comes down from the N4 flyover meets the old Lucan road, where the busses don't have to stop at all as they head citybound, they just keep left and the bus lane diverges from the old Luacn road, separated by a traffic island. There's surely a few more of these about? I hope they install them in as many places as reasonably possible as they (coupled with plenty of bus lane in CONGESTED places) make a massive difference collectively.

There is also a bus only junction on the 39 'QBC' at Blanchardstown that theoretically allows buses only through (powered bollards) but I haven't seen it used in ages, maybe it's broken?

I'd hope FCC install a few of the Lucan style priority junctions at the various T-junctions onto all the distributor roads in D15 when they widen them to add buslanes (already planned and started in places).

Victor

Bottom of Rathgar Road at the petrol station inbound. Outside Swan Shopping centre outbound. I'm not sure if either work.

According to the DTO, there are apparently no junctions that are automated to allow busses through as they approach a red traffic light.

John R

Leeson Street at the junction of Pembroke St. on the outbound bus lane has bus approach controlled lights, they were never set up properly to allow the buses drive through without stopping but they would turn after a few seconds.

They don't seem to be working now though, either they have gone back to timed operation or they are being triggered too early when the busses are stopped at the newly installed pedestrian lights.

The only approach triggered lights that I know of that are working properly atm is the one opposite Shanganagh graveyard in Shankill, hardly the biggest traffic blackspot in the country.

Ray777

Macy wrote:

N11 at the lights just after the Stillorgan Park Hotel (heading out of town).

I love the way those lights are in sync with the lights at right-hand-turn for Stillorgan. The bus has just enough time to pull across in front of the traffic and hit the lights before they go green. It's a right pain in the arse though, when the driver is unfamiliar with the route and sits there like an idiot while he has the green light, thus delaying the journey by... all of fifty seconds.

bazzer

There's a good one on Coldcut Road in Clondalkin on the approach to the Liffey Valley junction at B+Q. As the bus approaches in the bus lane, it turns the signal red for traffic in the regular lane, allowing the bus to bypass the red signal and pull into the gap created in the normal lane to get through the junction.

loyatemu

John R wrote:

The only approach triggered lights that I know of that are working properly atm is the one opposite Shanganagh graveyard in Shankill, hardly the biggest traffic blackspot in the country.

yeah - these are ridiculous, there's never any traffic on this stretch of road yet you still have to stop to allow the bus go past you (and shortly afterwards you catch up as it gets stuck in the traffic at Shankill village)

jlang

"Changing with the city!"

_Kaiser_

murphaph wrote:

There is also a bus only junction on the 39 'QBC' at Blanchardstown that theoretically allows buses only through (powered bollards) but I haven't seen it used in ages, maybe it's broken?

This always gave me a laugh. They diverted the 38/39s up this lane to bypass the congestion that used to occur on the road into Blanch village (by The Bell). About the same time the new slip road at the Snugborough road junction opened so most of this traffic was eliminated anyway! :rolleyes:

That lane is too narrow anyway for double-deck buses. I remember a driver destroying the paintwork on the side of an AV trying to squeeze past an ESB truck (rather than just wait for the guys to move it).