Bus Lanes

kingtut · 27-09-2011 03:36PM

thebostoncrab wrote: »

My bus is the very first bus, there are no earlier buses. All summer traffic wasn't an issue, I'd land in town Dublin city before 9 and hop on the Swords Express and be in work before 10 I'm hoping it's just a bad two days but it's still frustrating as hell.

FYP :cool:

arybvtcw0eolkf · 27-09-2011 03:39PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I have to say, i'm a serial offender.
If i'm sitting in traffic and there's an empty bus lane beside me, i'll drive in it - fúck it - all's fair in love and traffic. I get caught and fined roughly every 18 months or so, as far as i'm concerned that's a perfectly acceptable level of risk/reward. To be perfectly honest, i feel no civic duty of care towards buses or taxis, i'm just trying to get to work like everyone else. Although, that being said, i honestly don't think i've ever held up a bus, i'd usually only be in the bus lane when i'm turning out of it in a short while and i believe they should be bus/turning lanes anyway
Maybe you're just cutting it too fine?

I love jogging or walking in bicycle lanes - but only because I think I'm a ride

Horsefumbler · 27-09-2011 03:44PM

cisk wrote: »

For some strange reason even on Sundays people don't tend to use the bus lanes, i have often come up to a queue of 10 cars with the bus lane empty and free to use.

ffs keep it a secret :mad:

PandyAndy · 27-09-2011 03:45PM

Say no to traffic jams, say no to getting the bus, say no to being late for work, say YES to getting a monster truck.

Pherekydes · 27-09-2011 03:46PM

mikemac wrote: »

Time lost is lost forever

To commute from Galway to Dublin is a crazy distance

'tis.

Moate's not as bad, though. Especially the one in Westmeath.

I couldn't commute for 6-7 hrs per day. That'd drive me insane.

Turtyturd · 27-09-2011 03:47PM

Just drive in and use the Bus Lanes OP.

rubadub · 27-09-2011 08:08PM

Pherekydes wrote: »

I couldn't commute for 6-7 hrs per day. That'd drive me insane.

a lot of people fail to calculate this time in their pay too. We had lads coming up from wexford to dublin each day to earn little over min wage, when you add in the time they spent they were probably better off on min wage in the local supermarket.

I also hear people fooling themselves saying "it only takes me 40mins to get to work",
-"oh so you leave at 8.20 then, in for 9?",
-"ah no, I leave the hosue at 6, walk to the bus stop, get the bus, wait for the train which is only 40mins, walk to the next bus stop , etc,etc"

27-09-2011 08:55PM

rubadub wrote: »

a lot of people fail to calculate this time in their pay too. We had lads coming up from wexford to dublin each day to earn little over min wage, when you add in the time they spent they were probably better off on min wage in the local supermarket.

I also hear people fooling themselves saying "it only takes me 40mins to get to work",
-"oh so you leave at 8.20 then, in for 9?",
-"ah no, I leave the hosue at 6, walk to the bus stop, get the bus, wait for the train which is only 40mins, walk to the next bus stop , etc,etc"

Sometimes there is no local work available. I admire anyone who is willing to commute a huge distance to earn a living instead of sitting on their hole moaning that there's no work anywhere. Public transport in Ireland is a joke, though. It used to take me almost 2 hours to get from my house in Dublin 6 to work in Dublin 3, using the Luas, the DART and a bus. A similar journey here in London would take about 20 minutes.

vibe666 · 29-09-2011 03:42PM

i live in navan and was going for a job interview on the outskirts of dun laoghaire which would have been about an hour of a commute by car. unfortunately, the gearbox in my car decided to destroy itself the night before the interview and i had to resort to public transport which meant a 30 minute walk to the nearest bus eireann stop, over an hour on the bus into the city centre, 10 mins walk to connolly station, dart to dun laoghaire and then a 15 minute taxi ride the rest of the way.

after working it all out online and accounting for the waiting time between each leg of the journey and adding a bit of a safety buffer in case anything was late, i left the house at 11am and made it there for about 2:30pm ready for my 3pm interview.

that was more than enough to put me off public transport, but making it home for 6:30pm AND not getting the poxy job put the final nail in the coffin.

so unless you live on the main road in navan next to a bus stop and your work is next to the bus stop at the other end, get yourself a car with a solid gearbox.

Capt'n Midnight · 29-09-2011 10:19PM

Put cameras in the buses so drivers blocking bus lanes can be reported.

Use traffic cameras to enforce bus lanes , breaking red lights and my pet hate people entering a yellow junction box without a clear exit while turning LEFT

There is a junction box where a side road joins southbound on Ballymun road. The central meridian prevents anyone turning right :rolleyes:

29-09-2011 10:31PM

Malaya Attractive Duckling wrote: »

Sometimes there is no local work available. I admire anyone who is willing to commute a huge distance to earn a living instead of sitting on their hole moaning that there's no work anywhere. Public transport in Ireland is a joke, though. It used to take me almost 2 hours to get from my house in Dublin 6 to work in Dublin 3, using the Luas, the DART and a bus. A similar journey here in London would take about 20 minutes.

get a bike, dublin 6 to dublin 3? seriously? half hour tops. even walking would get there quicker!!

vibe666 · 29-09-2011 10:41PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

and my pet hate people entering a yellow junction box without a clear exit while turning LEFT

they had a thing on top gear a few years ago where they hid next to a yellow box and any time anyone blocked it, they jumped out with a marching band or cheerleaders or something like that.

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