Using Bus lane Fine

db330

I'm gonna be honest and say would use the bus lanes a lot, and this thread is not about that (I know its wrong and disrespectful to other road users...).

I've been stopped 3 times in the past year or 2 and always managed to get a warning (even got one garda going on about how the particular bus lane i was in should be open to all cars but that's a different topic again)

But my question is what is the fine for it and do they give points.

a friend told me its €80, but you also get 2 points but he was unsure.


But please don't post unless its about fines or points, we don't need a thread with people moaning about the lanes and what not

€60, no points apparently.

http://www.rotr.ie/accidents-gardai-and-penalties/penalty-points-fixed-charge-offences/index.html

db330

Thanks Joker

Bigcheeze

If you only got caught on average once a year, €60 is pretty cheap for an annual bus lane pass.

db330

Bigcheeze wrote: »

If you only got caught on average once a year, €60 is pretty cheap for an annual bus lane pass.

Ye that was just what I was thinking. Pretty good value.

Eoin

Could it not be covered by this offence?

Failure to comply with traffic lane markings

Guy:Incognito

Bigcheeze wrote: »

If you only got caught on average once a year, €60 is pretty cheap for an annual bus lane pass.

Why bother obeying any rules if your unlikely to be caught so.


This is whats wrong with the roads here, everyone with an "as long as I'm alright, **** everyone else" attitude.

fullstop

Hope you get caught more often and find out OP.

Marcusm

I use bus lanes a lot too but only outside of operational hours; always surprising he few do and how even fewer realise it's an RTA offence not to use them when available. My favourite is hitting Whitehall church just at 7pm ad being on Dorset Street before practically anyone else in the queue all through Drumcondra realises the bus and is open.

im invisible

Using Bus Lane? Fine!

AltAccount

im invisible wrote: »

Using Bus Lane? Fine!

It's fine to use a bus lane, or you'll get a fine for using a bus lane? And if you're fine with a fine, what then?

Mycroft H

AltAccount wrote: »

It's fine to use a bus lane, or you'll get a fine for using a bus lane? And if you're fine with a fine, what then?

He is fine with getting a fine and he is fine with using the fine bus lane.

Bohrio

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Why bother obeying any rules if your unlikely to be caught so.


This is whats wrong with the roads here, everyone with an "as long as I'm alright, **** everyone else" attitude.

We use to have the same problem in Spain, people wouldnt respect the bus lane and you will constantly find people using it, bypassing long queues quickly while the rest were waiting in line... i find it rude same way when i go to Mcdonalds and there is a queue i dont walk straight to the cashier and ask for a burger, ill wait my turn.

The solution in spain was to separate the bus lane (see below, ignore coco of course)



and place cameras all over the city, also as create a new type of policemen (not really policemen) called proximity agent. now they are all over the place;; pretty effective and people have stopped using the bus lane for the most part

aido 1976

Deleted User wrote: »

€60, no points apparently.

http://www.rotr.ie/accidents-gardai-and-penalties/penalty-points-fixed-charge-offences/index.html

+1 €60 and no points.... From experience from late last year

daenerysstormborn3

Bohrio wrote: »

We use to have the same problem in Spain, people wouldnt respect the bus lane and you will constantly find people using it, bypassing long queues quickly while the rest were waiting in line... i find it rude same way when i go to Mcdonalds and there is a queue i dont walk straight to the cashier and ask for a burger, ill wait my turn.

The solution in spain was to separate the bus lane (see below, ignore coco of course)



and place cameras all over the city, also as create a new type of policemen (not really policemen) called proximity agent. now they are all over the place;; pretty effective and people have stopped using the bus lane for the most part

Have seen similar on roundabouts in Europe to separate the lanes properly, would avoid the usual rubbish of people going straight through 2 lane roundabouts, taking the shortest possible route to reach their exit. Would love to see an actual safety measure like that introduced in Ireland instead of the usual money spinners.

Please Kill Me

pixiebean22 wrote: »

Would love to see an actual safety measure like that introduced in Ireland instead of the usual money spinners.

In Ireland?? With the RSA introducing something that doesn't earn them money??

AHHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.