As far as bus lanes go, where’s the enforcement? That remains the weak link in the chain. And frankly, the way the traffic situation is going in Dublin, they’re going to need to start not only widening main roads, but also turning some of these main roads into one-way thoroughfares with designated routes inbound and outbound—and if such extremes are gone to, then you’re going to need a whole lot of contra-flow bus lanes, otherwise passengers are going to have a long walk between inbound and outbound routes. (But that’s perhaps a bridge too far.)

(They keep talking about making the Maynooth line into DART; the time to do that was before they built the Luas Green Line on the Harcourt Street Line; that way, the Maynooth Line as DART could have gone onto the Broadstone Line, then underground to the Harcourt Street Line and on to Bray. LRT is not meant to replace heavy rail, especially upon former heavy-rail alignments. Plus, with the big rivalry between CIE and RPA, going to such compromise systems as “tram-train”—imagine being able to get on a Luas on Abbey Street and then continuing on to Howth on the DART tracks or something like that?—would never be feasible.)