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Some bus lane justice

  • 29-06-2010 6:02pm
    #1
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭


    So I am sitting on the Drumcondra to M1 road, seething quietly at the amount of dirty frigging bus lane jumpers go past me on the left.

    A Garda on a bike pulled one fellow over, wrote out the ticket and was preparing to drive off when a bus passed him.

    Right behind the bus a van was following. Garda sticks out his hand and writes him up.

    Nice.


Comments

  • #2
    Muckie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭Muckie


    Bet you were smiling your head off. Nice when they get caught.


  • #3
    tommyhaas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭tommyhaas


    Am I right in saying driving in a bus lane comes under 'Failure to comply with traffic lane markings', which is only 1 point?


  • #4
    BeciMester
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭BeciMester


    Loved to read that OP. :D I just feel my blood boil every time the ignorant feckers slide past a 20-car queue in the bus lane. :mad: I always say, if they were standing in a queue in the post office/supermarket and I was skipping it just like they do now, they'd be the first and loudest telling me where to go.


  • #5
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Love seeing them get caught. Thing is, you're usually in slow moving traffic that's moving even slower than it should because the bus lane pricks are jumping into your lane at the end


  • #6
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,192 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    tommyhaas wrote: »
    Am I right in saying driving in a bus lane comes under 'Failure to comply with traffic lane markings', which is only 1 point?

    As far as I know yes. However I do wonder if a dangeorus overtaking case could be taken, as a driver ends up overtaking on the left by doing that!


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  • #7
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,612 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    tommyhaas wrote: »
    Am I right in saying driving in a bus lane comes under 'Failure to comply with traffic lane markings', which is only 1 point?
    Pretty sure there are no points for this - just an €80 fine.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #8
    marious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭marious


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    Love seeing them get caught. Thing is, you're usually in slow moving traffic that's moving even slower than it should because the bus lane pricks are jumping into your lane at the end

    thats why all drivers suppose to make sure that they won't :)


  • #9
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    I know that road well OP, always glad to see the queue jumpers get punished!

    (On a side note, that road's bus lane is inactive between 10am and 12 midday, and also after 7pm. I love jumping the queue through the bus lane at these times, seeing the queued drivers scowling at me and then pointing to the bus lane sign showing that the bus lane is inactive. I'd never do it when the bus lane is active though)


  • #10
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    worth reading those signs..(but don't tell everyone!!!)


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