How can we curtail bus lane misuse

clontarf to o'connell street is already more than halfway on the coastal cycle path and through fairview park; and should get easier nearer town once the works on amiens street are finished.

Taxis were only allowed in bus lanes from 1997 onwards IIRC. I think they're not allowed in bus lanes up north?

It's not as if 'taxis in bus lanes' is axiomatic. They're not an efficient use of available road space.

I don't know what point you're trying to make. What you're saying is just as much of an argument to allow private cars to use bus lanes as it is about taxis in bus lanes. Bus lanes are efficient precisely because they keep low efficiency modes out, and a taxi is no more efficient a way at moving people around than a private car is. If you were arguing for multi-occupancy cars to be allowed use the bus lanes, that'd be different.

physician, heal thyself. i said the opposite: "they're bus lanes, not public transport lanes. bicycles are allowed in bus lanes and they're private transport."

look, it's not difficult. if i get a taxi into town, i get the benefit of the bus lane. if i drive into town in my own car, i don't. there's no difference in the efficiency of the use of the bus lane in these two scenarios; the only thing separating the two is that in one instance, i'm paying someone else to drive me. i am arguing that that difference has zero input into the argument about the bus lane being open to me in that scenario.

given the function of bus lanes - moving large groups of passengers quickly and efficiently - allowing taxis in makes no sense, no more than allowing private cars in makes sense.

you've made no convincing argument at all about why, if we allow cars into bus lanes, it should specifically be the ones where the passenger is paying the driver. hell, if you'd even argued that they should be allowed in because they'd specifically paid for the privilege, at least that's a point we could debate. but you've not offered any reason.