Are you aware that bus lanes don't operate from 7pm to 7am

Synthol

It just shows how much attention the average driver pays to the road. Even when the bus lanes are free to use which in most places is 7 to 7 and 24 on Sundays yet they are still empty all the time and people just sit in traffic behind each other all the way to the edge of Ireland.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Shocking!

Markcheese

There are 24 hour bus lanes too..
. . In Cork they tend to get used as a car parking area... 24/7

Guy:Incognito

Are you aware that not all bus lanes are 7-7?

Synthol

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Are you aware that not all bus lanes are 7-7?

Are you aware of my original post?

Atlantic Dawn

I love using them at these times, less people know about them the better.

ION08

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Are you aware that not all bus lanes are 7-7?

Well given the fact that the OP can obviously read a simple sign, unlike most other lemmings on the road, I’ll go out on a limb here and say that yes he is aware not ALL bus lanes are 7-7

Some are even free to use between 10:00 -12:00. Nothing better than travelling down the howth road and bus laneing it the whole way while other drivers look at you like you’ve ten heads.

kona

Or just go down them regardless, garda dont have the manpower to have a lad standing beside a buslane pulling people in.

Wibbs

Synthol wrote: »

It just shows how much attention the average driver pays to the road. Even when the bus lanes are free to use which in most places is 7 to 7 and 24 on Sundays yet they are still empty all the time and people with cages just sit in traffic behind each other all the way to the edge of Ireland.

Oh I hear that S. There's a route I used take on the regular(and sometimes still do) and usually after seven PM and the bus lane is freed up then, so naturally I'd fly down said lane passing the string of frustrated traffic to my right. Every single time I'd get people in cars hooting their horns, even fist waving at me when stopped at the lights. Even on Sundays when it had no time restrictions.

Hell on five separate occasions on that route I was flagged down by Guards eager to write me a ticket. The first time I was polite about it as I always am with the Guards. No need to be a dick about such things and they have a hard fcuking job at the best of times and usually they have me bang to rights anyway. The second time the Guard was sound and looked at me and his watch, looked back at me and laughed and said "oh oh, maybe I need a new watch, sorry about that". By the fourth... I was still "polite" but pointed out where the big hand and the little hand were on my watch. By the fifth(and this particular Guard had stopped me twice before and was one of those oh so smug muppets you sometimes get)... I had lucked out and had stopped within 20 feet of the Bus Lane sign(a few minutes from 8 PM). I sat there, silently, looking vaguely ahead, ignoring him and let him rabbit(very snottily) on about driving in bus lanes. I looked at him and said remarkably calmly considering my ire; "Guard, can you read that sign?". He stared at it like a cow over a five bar gate. "Good. Have a good evening Guard" and promptly drove off around him and the squad car. That particular twat followed me all the way home. I kid thee not. Like ten plus miles(in old money) out of the way distance. Needless to say I drove like it was my driving test. And I was on medication. And my car was a 800cc... Then he sat outside my gates for a couple of minutes, looking in. /Rant

Wheeliebin30

Shush!

Wibbs

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I love using them at these times, less people know about them the better.

Actually yeah Synth, FFS shut the hell up, you're letting the cat outa the bag. Whist!

beertons

Yes. I always check the signs.

Pinch Flat

Yeah most of the ones around me in west Dublin would operate like this, some 24 hours as well. You’ll still get tools who won’t allow you to merge from one when you’re using them legally, they think you’re pulling a fast one.

mgbgt1978

Synthol wrote: »

Are you aware of my original post?

...are you able to read back your Thread Title ? :rolleyes:
Many bus lanes are 7 to 7, many are not . Your title is a bit misleading.

doolox

...but the last 50 yards coming up to Woodies is a 24 hour 7 day job which can catch people out. Other ones are 7am to 10 am and other variations exist.

Read the signs carefully and watch out for the 24 hour clock which I am not good at.....being and AM and PM sort of guy.

colm_mcm

You had me at "cage"

Wibbs

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

...are you able to read back your Thread Title ? :rolleyes:
Many bus lanes are 7 to 7, many are not . Your title is a bit misleading.

mgbgt1978

You know me so well pet. you're not my neighbour, are you ?

begbysback

Wibbs wrote: »

Oh I hear that S. There's a route I used take on the regular(and sometimes still do) and usually after seven PM and the bus lane is freed up then, so naturally I'd fly down said lane passing the string of frustrated traffic to my right. Every single time I'd get people in cars hooting their horns, even fist waving at me when stopped at the lights. Even on Sundays when it had no time restrictions.

Hell on five separate occasions on that route I was flagged down by Guards eager to write me a ticket. The first time I was polite about it as I always am with the Guards. No need to be a dick about such things and they have a hard fcuking job at the best of times and usually they have me bang to rights anyway. The second time the Guard was sound and looked at me and his watch, looked back at me and laughed and said "oh oh, maybe I need a new watch, sorry about that". By the fourth... I was still "polite" but pointed out where the big hand and the little hand were on my watch. By the fifth(and this particular Guard had stopped me twice before and was one of those oh so smug muppets you sometimes get)... I had lucked out and had stopped within 20 feet of the Bus Lane sign(a few minutes from 8 PM). I sat there, silently, looking vaguely ahead, ignoring him and let him rabbit(very snottily) on about driving in bus lanes. I looked at him and said remarkably calmly considering my ire; "Guard, can you read that sign?". He stared at it like a cow over a five bar gate. "Good. Have a good evening Guard" and promptly drove off around him and the squad car. That particular twat followed me all the way home. I kid thee not. Like ten plus miles(in old money) out of the way distance. Needless to say I drove like it was my driving test. And I was on medication. And my car was a 800cc... Then he sat outside my gates for a couple of minutes, looking in. /Rant

800 cc - was that one of the old fiat bubble 850's?

grogi

Synthol wrote: »

It just shows how much attention the average driver pays to the road. Even when the bus lanes are free to use which in most places is 7 to 7 and 24 on Sundays yet they are still empty all the time and people just sit in traffic behind each other all the way to the edge of Ireland.

Majority in Cork are in operation in rush hours only: 7:30-9:30 and 16:30-18:30.

Guy:Incognito

Synthol wrote: »

Are you aware of my original post?

Some are 24/7. One or 2 are hours like 7am -9:30am ( think that's it could be a half hour of so out)

Guy:Incognito

Pinch Flat wrote: »

You’ll still get tools who won’t allow you to merge from one when you’re using them legally, they think you’re pulling a fast one.

Plenty have a yield at the end of them, not just a straight 2 lanes merging in to 1.

DaveyDave

The main ones in Lucan are 24 hour, the amount of people I've seen using them is a joke, Gardai should be around at 4pm when people start using them and rack up some fines. Far too many people using them and almost always speeding.

I use them the odd time when there's light traffic driving under the speed limit.