Meanwhile on the Roads...

https://www.thejournal.ie/motorcyclist-dies-car-burnt-out-carlow-6363615-Apr2024/

so someone kills a motorcyclist then burns the car out. the roads are getting so bad.

he's a c**t. had to stop listening to him a few years ago because of this sh*t.

Yeah there's lots that needs to change but the mentality of certain motorists that they urgently must get past a cyclist at all costs is really dangerous. I see it everyday, overtaking into oncoming traffic, going around a corner or 20 meters before a red light. Just chill the f*** out. You're going to be stopped in traffic in about 20 seconds anyway so it literally makes no difference to your day.

I have to chime in here as Windgates is part of my daily commute.

every day, without fail, there are numpties who think its fine to overtake either into oncoming downhill traffic; overtake at the crest (totally blind) or close pass when an extra 5-10 seconds would give them a safer overtaking opportunity.

It really boils my piss, as one would think that the vast majority of people on their way to work are of reasonable intelligence. Put them behind a wheel though and, well you know the rest.

TheJournal seek your opines

Bus lanes on all the major arteries in and out of Dublin should have policing every day.

It would be good high visibility work that would increase the perception of policing being active on the roads, and it's of the type that would be roundly supported by the vast majority of motorists - never mind being supported by public transport users and cyclists as well. Unlikely to have a Michael Hearly Rae stand up in the Dáil to complain about the persecution of the poor hard-pressed bus-lane abuser.

Absolutely should be cameras - but in the absence of cameras, a mix of a few marked and unmarked garda cars just patrolling the main commuter routes and pulling in offenders would make a huge impact on driver behaviour overall.

I was out for a run along the N11 near UCD one evening a few weeks ago. Traffic was quite busy - backed up from Fosters Avenue to the UCD underpass. There was a marked Garda jeep driving slowly up the bus-lane, watching for drivers on their phones. Looked like he was giving a just warning to any that he saw (which was fair enough when traffic was stopped).

Made me think how much more effective it would be if there was a sense of unmarked garda cars in busy traffic on the patrol for offences.

How does that work from an enforcement point of view? Is the bus stopping to let the police officer off to take the drivers' details?

"Op Deck"

It loses the viability element of other motorists seeing someone having been pulled over by an unmarked car - so not sure it would be quite as good a deterrent. But all would help