Police on the rock road nailing cars in bus lane today

worded

They were slowly booking one car while three lucky others were diving for cover back to the car lane.

Its tempting but ........ whats the fine if caught?

MrPudding

60 or 80 euros. To be honest it is not so much the fine that should put you off, more the fact that you look like a selfish obnoxious prick when you use the bus lane to skip queues.

MrP

Bluetonic

Plus some points.

You could really get done for a few such as

Failure to comply with mandatory traffic signs 1 pt
Failure to comply with traffic lane markings 1pt
Failure of Vehicle to comply with prohibitory traffic signs 1pt

craichoe

On the other hand, alot of people don't know that you can use the bus lanes according to the hours on the sign. I've used the bus lane going home some nights (outside the operating hours) and have had people beeping and flashing at me.

However your only meant to cross into the bus lane at the broken white line, your not meant to cross when its solid.

I remember coming home from the Cork V Waterford match and there was a motorcycle cop on the quays shouting

"USE THE BUS LANE .. FOR GOD SAKE .. USE THE BUS LANE"

mikemac

Outside the Archbishops Palace in Drumcondra lately also

They're catching loads of people and from my own observations it's mainly builders/tradesmen and also delivery men in vans that get caught.

Not a statistic, just what I see every day

ballooba

I thought Rock Road bus lane was not in use. Has this changed?

Anan1

ballooba wrote:

I thought Rock Road bus lane was not in use. Has this changed?

It changed about a month ago, and to be fair to them it was very well signposted.

ballooba

I haven't been using it much since around July time.

Anan1

ballooba wrote:

I haven't been using it much since around July time.

Sorry, I didn't mean that as a dig at you! I was just making the point that regular users of the Rock Road couldn't really claim ignorance if they got caught.:)

nialler

It's the bus lane on the Merrion Road they're doing that's wrecking my head, stuck in traffic for 30 mins the other morning in ballsbridge, a bloody disgrace, sure a bus lane would take up the entire width of that road, and it's a main artery into the city ffs.

Anan1

nialler wrote:

It's the bus lane on the Merrion Road they're doing that's wrecking my head, stuck in traffic for 30 mins the other morning in ballsbridge, a bloody disgrace, sure a bus lane would take up the entire width of that road, and it's a main artery into the city ffs.

So take the bus.;)

ballooba

Anan1 wrote:

Sorry, I didn't mean that as a dig at you! I was just making the point that regular users of the Rock Road couldn't really claim ignorance if they got caught.:)

I'm not that sensitive. I used to enjoy whizzing down the Rock Road when it wasn't in use. People never seemed to figure it out.

nialler

Anan1 wrote:

So take the bus.;)

Know any bus that goes from Ringsend to the back of monkstown/dun laoghaire? Tis like another client who is up in Fumbally Lane, can't get a bus up there either (well not one anyway), so it's either walk (45 mins and sweating like a biatch) or take the car, I know which one I prefer. Try to be healthy but 40 fags a day makes it a tad difficult.

Victor

Cycle. Both routes are mostly flat.

If Monkstown is too far at the start, cycle to the DART.

Esel

craichoe wrote:

However your only meant to cross into the bus lane at the broken white line, your not meant to cross when its solid.

Think you are wrong here. AFAIK the thick bus lane line bears no relation to the white line in the centre of the road. How many taxis and buses do you see crossing it every day?