Biker pulled over in bus lane in clontarf this morning

madrab

I was driving through clontarf this morning & i saw a fellow biker being pulled over for being in the bus lane by a young female guarda, i was stopped at the lights watching as she gestured this & that while the biker just kind of laughed her off, it was quite funny to watch.
My light went green so off i went down the buslane & passed the pulled over bike, who left the guarda a few seconds after i passed. I asked him about it a few lights down the road & he said he ust laughed at her & told here that the last guarda that stopped him told him to use the buslane.


Anybody else been caught by the upsurge of new guarda?

subway

is this part of operation freeflow where they put unqualified people into garda uniforms and tell them to harass the general public?

parliament

haha that explains why last year I was stopped by a young ban garda during the xmas season ans asked why I wasn't displaying my insurance disk, I promptly told her it was because I was on a motorcycle!

KTRIC

Ah good aul "Operation Freeflow", where once a year the Gardai come out of there little warm offices with their rosy cheeks and shiny shoes and enforce the law that they ignore all the rest of the year round.

I bet Ireland is the only country in the world that has seasonal law enforcement !!

I'm embarrassed for them, I really am. They are a complete joke and I bet they know it and just don't care.

Dr4gul4

havent been stopped yet, but i was last year.

Pity the guards didnt open there eye's though.

The long bus lane past the dog track in harolds cross, what a joke this morning.

Has sum guy in a purple volvo followin me the whole way up it. not a care in the world,

He looked foreign though ...maybe french

where were the guards i hear you all cry, no where to be seen

subway

Dr4gul4 wrote:

where were the guards i hear you all cry

probably trying to clamp motorcycles for not displaying parking discs....

seamus

subway wrote:

is this part of operation freeflow where they put unqualified people into garda uniforms and tell them to harass the general public?

Must be it. There are definitely a few fresh-faced young lassies out these mornings, looking eager to stop anyone for anything

KTRIC

seamus wrote:

Must be it. There are definitely a few fresh-faced young lassies out these mornings, looking eager to stop anyone for anything

Fresh-faced you say ?, eager to stop anyone you say ?

Now where's my helmet, I think I'll do a bit of speeding in the bus lane during my breakfast break and see if I can get pulled ..................... over

Idleater

seamus wrote:

Must be it. There are definitely a few fresh-faced young lassies out these mornings, looking eager to stop anyone for anything

One Garda waved at a couple of us bikers at the lights at woodies in Lucan this morning. I waved back. I reckon he was up for a chat. At least it wasn't raining .... yet ...



L.

madrab

well they do call it the silly season

rgfuller

nereid wrote:

One Garda waved at a couple of us bikers at the lights at woodies in Lucan this morning. I waved back. I reckon he was up for a chat. At least it wasn't raining .... yet ...



L.

Yeah - that guard looked a cheery fellow this am.

All these guards definitly makes a difference to the queues at lights on the run in to Dublin though, it was fantastic yesterday and not too bad today.

Kinetic^

I've never been stopped for diriving in the bus lane but I was directed by a garda to move back into the proper lane...........which I of course did, until he was out of sight

comer_97

the guard at lucan was trying to get the kids to cross at the traffic lights and they were completely ignoring him!

tk123

There was one in Drumcondra at the archbishops palace this morning - i took my chances in the buslane and they didn't care. I go home thru Clontarf - yesterday a truck was blocking all the traffic(as usual) so there was cars going in and out of the buslane - the cop just stood leaning against the railings outside Westwood. Today there was 2 cars in the buslane, 1 rear-ended the other and the same cop looked on while holding up the railings outside WW. That said there was a bike cop letting all the traffic out of East Point this evening and making an actual difference to the traffic so it cancels out the useless noobs... Happy xmas motorists!

faceman

I got "caught" last year day 1 of operation stay in bed. I got a caution and read my rights! no joke!

murphaph

lol at Kenny 5's sig!

Paparazzo

In fairness, I've driven past about 20-30 of them this year (in busslanes) and no problems.

skywalker_208

so is it actually illegal to drive a bike in a buslane?

KTRIC

skywalker_208 wrote:

so is it actually illegal to drive a bike in a buslane?

It is if you think it is and thats what counts.

Kinetic^

murphaph wrote:

lol at Kenny 5's sig!

Lemming

Paparazzo wrote:

In fairness, I've driven past about 20-30 of them this year (in busslanes) and no problems.

afaik, bus lanes are also designated as 'cycle' lanes. Note the lack of 'bi', 'motor' or any other word attached to the word 'cycle'.

I stand open to correction, but I can recall many moons ago when I was pedalling one of them cycling rickshaw thingies around Dublin that we could use the likes of bus lanes going contra-flow to the rest of the st (e.g. leeson st.) because they were designated as 'cycle' in a very vague manner.