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Use of bus lanes

  • 14-12-2007 1:52am
    #1
    Riveta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭


    I was on the 90 to Heuston today going up the quays. I noticed that there's a bus lane for most of the way. But i also noticed that the driver wasnt' using it for a lot of the journey, preferring to get stuck in traffic? I really don't understand that? Like if the infrastructure is in place, why dont' people use it!? Baffling


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  • #2
    markpb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,388 ✭✭✭markpb


    Same as all other bus lanes really.... buses get stuck behind queues of cars waiting to turn left, cars pulled in to drop people off, take phone calls or look at maps, vans pulled in to make deliveries, etc. I'd imagine it's worse this time of year around the left turn into Jervis SC car park.

    Between drivers unwillingness to let buses move out of the bus lane and the fact that manouevering buses in slow moving traffic is difficult, it's probably faster to stay out of the bus lane than move in and out around obsticles.


  • #3
    Riveta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭Riveta


    oh ok! Was just wondering. It's a great pity. Like why build them if they can't be used properly?!


  • #4
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,088 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Riveta wrote: »
    oh ok! Was just wondering. It's a great pity. Like why build them if they can't be used properly?!

    Cause it's easier to be seen to be doing something about the (traffic/crime/healthcare system - insert problem here) than actually doing something that makes a difference. :rolleyes:


  • #5
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Cameras in Bus Lanes/Box Junctions/Bus stops is the only answer. Ken Livingstone got it right.


  • #6
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    Bus lanes do work, even in dublin, but are overused and misused which is the fault of the garda and the road planners... (EDIT: and maybe dublin bus.. like why are there so many starting points on the quays???)

    Id rather someone using the bus lane to get a ticket than someone who is breaking the speed limit by a few miles. I rarely see ppl getting pulled for using the bus lanes and it does my head in!

    Either way they still work but there benefit is in no way optimised.


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  • #7
    shltter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,841 ✭✭✭shltter


    neil_hosey wrote: »
    . (EDIT: and maybe dublin bus.. like why are there so many starting points on the quays???)

    .
    City Council decide what areas buses can and can not start/ finish at
    They limit the places so that is why so many buses start from the one place the number of places is reducing all the time so more buses are crammed into a smaller space.
    Remember all the buses that were removed from Abbey St to make way for the LUAS.

    This actually has a knock on effect on timetables as DB is forced to cut running times to try and limit the number of buses that are in the city.
    Give to little time and buses run late give extra time and buses pile up in the city and have to be sent out early to make room.


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