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Merging lanes - right of way

  • 04-09-2017 4:19pm
    #1
    Jimmy Bottlehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,122 ✭✭✭✭


    Question about merging an out-of-hours bus lane with a regular lane of traffic.

    Who has right of way in this situation? The out-of-hours bus lane along the footpath, or the normal lane? It's hard to tell from Google Maps but what do you guys think?

    Also mods if you want to embed, please do, I'm on the touch site so can't do it.


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  • #2
    kielmanator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭kielmanator


    Is this the bus lane by Dennehys Cross in Cork by any chance?


  • #3
    mikeecho
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    kielmanator wrote: »
    Is this the bus lane by Dennehys Cross in Cork by any chance?

    There is a Yield sign at the end of that bus lane... so anything in the bus lane ..must Yield


    The yield sign isnt on googlemaps, but, it was there when i passed recently.


  • #4
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    OSI wrote: »
    There's always a dotted line at the end of a bus lane which signifies a yield. Anyone in the bus lane should be yielding to anyone on the main carriage.

    Out of hours its two parallel "normal" lanes. I would interpret that as yield to the vehicle in front.


  • #5
    CiniO
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    Just if someone's wondering, here are attachments from the OP

    427043.png

    427042.png


  • #6
    mikeecho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,267 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    A physical Yield sign has been installed since the Google car took those pics


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  • #7
    XsApollo
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    Does it matter what type of lane you are in?
    If you are merging to another lane you are responsible for merging safely?


  • #8
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    I can't work out anything from those pictures, but generally once driver is changing lane, they have to give way to vehicles already on that lane.

    Problem is when two lanes suddenly become one...


  • #9
    mikeecho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,267 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    CiniO wrote: »
    Just if someone's wondering, here are attachments from the OP ...

    I'd be more concerned that the OP lost 15% of his battery in 26minutes


  • #10
    grogi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,616 ✭✭✭grogi


    XsApollo wrote: »
    Does it matter what type of lane you are in?
    If you are merging to another lane you are responsible for merging safely?

    Golden rule of the road: If you're crossing a dashed line, yield. Applies to roundabouts as well.


  • #11
    kielmanator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭kielmanator


    mikeecho wrote: »
    There is a Yield sign at the end of that bus lane... so anything in the bus lane ..must Yield


    The yield sign isnt on googlemaps, but, it was there when i passed recently.

    Tell the daily numpty(s) about the yield sign there. *sigh*


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  • #12
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Same as the cycle lane has a yield for the bus lane.


  • #13
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,088 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    What's beyond the yellow box? Straight and right-turn lane? Is there a need to filter traffic to one lane at all?


  • #14
    grogi
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    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    What's beyond the yellow box? Straight and right-turn lane?

    Straight and left turn. There is a separate lane for right turns.

    https://goo.gl/maps/gLCSD17hRFA2
    Is there a need to filter traffic to one lane at all?

    There is only one full-time lane, with the second being a bus lane...


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