Query about Aircoach

strassenwo!f

The Aircoach route from Dublin Airport to Cardiff Lane (and beyond, to Bray and Greystones) goes through the port tunnel, down to the roundabout at the Point Depot, then along North Wall Quay for a couple of hundred metres.

It then turns right into a street called Park Lane, around the back of the National Conference Centre into Mayor Street, then left into Guild Street and on over the Samuel Beckett Bridge.

At the point where it turns into Park Lane all the road markings are for straight ahead, and there is no clear indication that a right turn is a possibility at this point.

Are all the Aircoach buses on this route making an illegal right turn?

liger

strassenwo!f wrote: »

At the point where it turns into Park Lane all the road markings are for straight ahead, and there is no clear indication that a right turn is a possibility at this point.

Are all the Aircoach buses on this route making an illegal right turn?

Looking at Google Street view there is a broken white line at that junction, also a sign for parking turn right just before it and also no sign to say right turn's are forbidden.

So it looks perfectly fine for them to turn there.

strassenwo!f

Thanks, Liger. I can see that now.

Perhaps the arrows on the road should be redrawn, to show that that right turn is legally available. They don't seem to indicate that at the moment.

MJohnston

The arrows on the road are merely to indicate direction of travel because of the complex nature of the bus lane vs regular lane dividing markings.

The only way to restrict a turn is a no left or right turn sign (red circle, line through the direction arrow) and I don't believe any enforcement indicator would ever be painted on the road rather than given a dedicated sign.

MrMorooka

Pretty sure the 757 bus uses the same route, or it did the one time I used it.

MJohnston

It's the only legal route to get from the Port Tunnel onto the Beckett Bridge southbound.

MJohnston

Well, not the only one, I suppose you could route via East Wall Road and North Strand if you were a sadist