“Dublin Bus are a joke, never on time”…. meanwhile entire bus lane on Ballycullen Road blocked for 1.05KM including the very first stop for the 15. Happy commuting Dublin <3 (pic sent by colleague)
“Dublin Bus are a joke, never on time”…. meanwhile entire bus lane on Ballycullen Road blocked for 1.05KM including the very first stop for the 15. Happy commuting Dublin <3 (pic sent by colleague)
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If only we had some sort of dedicated team of people travelling around in cars, motorbikes, or even bicycles, enforcing the rules of the road.
In problem spots like this there should be a barrier that separates the lanes
The sooner we get bus lane and red light cameras the better.
Give buses snow ploughs and the legal right to self clear bus lanes.
Catch 22 for drivers there, if you continue down the correct lane and join where you should you’d have people raging at you for skipping the queue.
We really need more traffic enforcement focusing on nuisance drivers.
Belfast have cameras all over the place that automatically fine this behaviour. We could really do with something similar.
And anyone that knows the 15 knows it’s a fucking critical bus for the city. There are sometimes 4 or 5 busses in the morning filled at once
Honestly, living in Ireland you often forget what kind of things are even possible in a functioning society. This kinda stuff is so accepted/normalized, that it often feels like it actually cannot be different
The cars before the junction are in the right if they are turning left, past that you see a with flow bus lane on your left, staying in that lane unless you are a bus, taxi, emergency service vehicle, cyclist or other permitted vehicle, is illegal. Personally I would prefer taxis and cyclists be booted out of the lanes, with the taxes in normal lanes, and the cyclists in proper cycle lanes. As a bus driver the former piss me off, and the latter terrify me.
Should be fined, the lot of them. Occasionally bleeding in fine. But this is disgraceful. Bet ya if anything actually started to happen you’d have plenty of tossers complaining about their freedoms… ugh.
Bus lane/red light cameras would literally be a cunt tax, which is exactly the sort of tax we need. The only explanation is that the people who have final say on this are themselves cunts
*free money* – the government: nah. Lets get em to pay road tax instead of fines.
We need red light and bus lane cameras that stop cars but let cyclists run red lights.
We need trains in this county. A good train service is better than a perfect bus service
I have often thought that the solution to this is €50 fines. That may seem like nothing but hear me out…
The first person who manages to send a photo of a vehicle illegally in a bus / bike lane should get €20 of the €50. That covers the car for 2 minutes. If a car is still there 2 minutes later it pays another €50, €20 again going to who lever reported it.
People would be super enthusiastic to get involved.
Far too many cars on our roads, its just unsustainable
Why don’t we have motorcycle cops just riding along writing tickets?
We need underground like in London, combined with a monorail like in North Haverbrook.
This is partially down to poor road design.
Apart from one or two selfish people who will try cut back in, I would wager that most of those cars are turning left up ahead.
Anticipating and planning ahead is pro active driving and when there’s already a queue of cars in the bus lane waiting to turn left then the safest and most responsible thing to do is join those cars.
There really should be a lengthy left turn lane AND a bus lane, with a light at the very end (sensored) to allow the bus go straight ahead if it needs too.
It’s got worse in the past 5 years. More houses built up that way from stocking lane and they all merge their
Stick cameras on the bus lanes, fine people who use the bus lanes, people will shortly stop using them.
If you’re a law abiding road user and you want to turn left, you have a bit of a dilemma. Do you join the queue that’s forming in the bus lane, or do you stay in the proper lane and wait until you get to the turn off and try to then get in the left lane? The issue with the latter is that you are then reliant on somebody who is already in the left lane to let you merge, and from the perspective of the driver already in the left lane they might not be inclined to do so because they have queued in the bus lane and think that you are trying to skip in ahead of them. If they won’t let you merge then traffic in the normal lane starts backing up and compounding the problem.
Ideally what *should* happen is that everyone stays in the proper lane and wait until they get to the turn off. But all it takes is one or two numpties to start queueing in the bus lane and then it creates a dilemma for the drivers that would be normally inclined to do the right thing.
If you had a guard out there giving tickets for one day a week for a few weeks (picked at random), that would sort out that behavior pretty quickly.
I used to live close to here. The traffic light sequence down at the junction needs tweaking. But you probably need to get local councillors, Garda representatives, and a special sitting of the Seanad to get that done.
NYC has cameras in the busses to take pictures of cars in the bus lanes and send fines to the registered plate
Sweet spot for camera and just send them their bill.
I don’t live in the country anymore but I was home in September and had to do a lot more driving than I usually do when I’m back home and I was absolutely shocked at how many people just blatantly drive in bus lanes. It’s gotten so bad since the last time I was home.
Meanwhile the guards are more concerned with parking their little speed vans on the N4 at Lucan to nab people driving slightly too fast on a modern road that should have a higher speed limit.
That area for public transport is a joke.
I’m sure I’ll be downvoted but I live up around there and will use the bus lane when I need to go straight at the Ballycullen Road/Killinniny Road junction, the majority of cars you can see in that pic are trying to get onto the M50 and a lot of them will cut in right down near the lights to do so which exacerbates things.
When the [Ballycullen-Oldcourt development plan](https://www.sdcc.ie/en/services/planning/local-area-plans/existing/ballycullen-oldcourt/) was being proposed in 2014 there was huge objection to it because the Ballycullen road simply couldn’t handle the amount of traffic for the amount of houses they proposed to build, it was already bad at the time. This wasn’t nimbyism like ruining the character of the area type nonsense, it was purely based on realistic infrastructure concerns. Now most of those houses are built this is the end result, SDCC have reaped what they’ve sown. I’ve never seen the bus lane being policed up here and to be honest if it was I would be certain it would be straight back to like the pic above as soon as they left.
r/fuckcars
Buses should have traffic cameras in the front. If a bus driver is slowed or stopped by someone in a bus lane, they can hit a little button that snaps the license plate and emails it to the gards who can apply a fine and/or penalty points.
At the very least, it will mean everyone will get the fuck out of a bus lane if a bus is coming.
Need some of those stickers that you slap on the windows that are nearly impossible to get off, saying something about how I don’t give a shit about busses.
Congestion charges. I know they’re highly unpopular here in r/ireland but they work. Bus lane cameras is all well and good but in general we need to reduce the number of cars within Dublin and congestion charges do exactly that.
Can you just open their door and hop in if they stop in front of a bus stop?