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Cork and Galway to get bus lanes

  • 12-05-2003 2:16pm
    #1
    dmeehan
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    from breakingnews.ie:
    Cork and Galway to get bus lanes
    12/05/2003 - 1:58:33 pm

    Cork and Galway are set to get bus lanes for the first time.

    The government is planning to spend €3m on bus lanes - similar to those in Dublin - for Cork, with funding being allocated for similar facilities in Galway from next year.

    The announcement was made during the launch of new national traffic management guidelines by the Minister for Transport Seamus Brennan.

    He says resistance to the capital's first bus lanes over 20 years ago has long since vanished.

    Minister Brennan says that the money is there now for the new public transport initiative but that it might not be there in future.

    Poor Limerick gets left on the shelf.

    I would like to see where they are going to put the bus lanes in Cork, most of the roads are already too narrow for traffic as it is!


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  • #2
    Victor
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    Originally posted by dmeehan
    I would like to see where they are going to put the bus lanes in Cork, most of the roads are already too narrow for traffic as it is!
    Certain places could take them immediately, in fact anywhere with 3/4 lanes or even two lanes on a one way street (count parking lanes in number of lanes). Teh Ballincollig bypass will also help.

    Are the ones on Western Road / Wilton Road still there?


  • #3
    dmeehan
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    dunno about western road, havent been that way since cork main drainage dug up the road

    theres none on wilton road, as the bottom half of the road has a filter lane for turning right

    maybe douglas road could take one, but its too narrow in places. like just before Johnson & Perott and the area near St. Finbars

    Douglas certainly has the population to support a QBC


  • #4
    Victor
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    Originally posted by dmeehan
    maybe douglas road could take one, but its too narrow in places. like just before Johnson & Perott and the area near St. Finbars Douglas certainly has the population to support a QBC
    I think it's a matter of turning (theretical) building line into the road line on, in particular: N&S Douglas Road, Boreenamanagh Road, Pouladuff Road, parts of Togher Road and some other individual areas.

    What about Grand Parade / South Mall / Merchants Quay / Patrick Street and making all buses do a "loop" around them, so that poeple can get their bus as close to their (city centre) destination as possible?


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