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BUSRAGE Discussions: Forum: Road Traffic - Recent Topics http://busrage.com/forum/ BUSRAGE Discussions: Forum: Road Traffic - Recent Topics en Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:47:40 +0000 Al on "EU report details Ireland's traffic carnage" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/5149#post-5149 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:57:36 +0000 Al 5149@http://busrage.com/forum/ Quite sad, these statistics. To think that if we had more mass transportation, some of these deaths could have been avoided... <a href=http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0427/roads.html>RTE News</a><blockquote><hr><h3>EU report highlights road fatalities</h3>Friday, 27 April 2007 08:31 A European Commission report out today shows that Ireland has the worst road death figures in Europe, when it comes to young people. The figures show that over one third of those killed on Irish roads are under 25. The European Union Transport Commissioner, Jacques Barrot, is to present a study comparing EU averages with statistics from the 27 individual member states. The report from the European Commission shows that while road deaths in Ireland have decreased over the past ten years - with 368 people dying in 2006 - we are still far above the European average. Ireland also has the highest percentage of young people killed in road accidents. The report showed that 38% of all those killed in crashes are under 25, while 30% are between 18 and 25. The report also showed that 75% of people killed on the EU's roads in 2005 were men. A second report, out today, found that Ireland is also behind when it comes to seat belt usage. Only 86% of us wear our belts while in the front seat of the car, compared to 97% per cent of French drivers. Our use of safety belts in the back seats of cars is even worse. Ireland has one of the worst records in Europe, with only 46% of back seat passengers wearing their belts. <hr></blockquote> Anonymous on "Traffic Today 5-4-07" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/5132#post-5132 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:50:39 +0000 Anonymous 5132@http://busrage.com/forum/ Can Anyone Explain Why The City Was In A Gridlock Today? I Got The 16.05 50 From Ringsend Garage And Got To Tallaght @ 18.35!! Please Comment [posted by: Driver A] ADO on "Late for Work???" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/3961#post-3961 Tue, 03 May 2005 17:49:00 +0000 ADO 3961@http://busrage.com/forum/ how many of you have been late for work on the bus??? either by bad weather, some idiot truck driver getting stuck under a bridge(knowing the truck won't fit) buses breaking down traffic, sunday drivers, etc... dublin bus and cie should really sit down and talk anong themselves about routes and timetables, i personnally couldn't tell you how often i'm late by the above. atleat set timetables with realistic time, unlike the 17A every 15 minutes (my arse) more like 50 minutes, and that equals to congetsion and agrovation. (i love big words, they make me sound safisticated) Anonymous on "Bus Manners!" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/3399#post-3399 Wed, 19 Jan 2005 05:54:27 +0000 Anonymous 3399@http://busrage.com/forum/ Dunno if anyone here has noticed the road behavior of the large amount of foreign registered cars in Dublin, i.e Latvian, hungarians, Polish etc. God knows what the driving test is like in those countries or even if they have one? Speed limits, yield signs, mini-roundabouts, stop signs/road markings appear to mean nothing to these people! One also wonders at the people who "barge" there way past a bus pulling out of a stop only to be then passed by the same bus 2mins later in the bus lane! [posted by: XpressoX] Shadowfox on "Lay off the bus drivers" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/3055#post-3055 Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:05:04 +0000 Shadowfox 3055@http://busrage.com/forum/ While just being a humble bus user I would like to say that the fault of people being late for work, appointments etc is NOT that of the guy driving the bus, it is the fault of the morons who insist of driving everywhere. Thus the bus gets stuck in the mess that the car drivers create. Kinda obvious is'bnt it ??. No better example is the curse that is the Blanchardstown Centre at the weekends. The amount of people who drive up there is so bad that it is quicker to walk up to then use any other form of transport. How the bus drivers don'nt have a heart attack is beyond me broc on "Parking in Dun Laoire Council Areas" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/2940#post-2940 Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:03:07 +0000 broc 2940@http://busrage.com/forum/ Why is it, that in areas under the control of Dun Laoire Council, car parking is uncontrolled and sporadic? Cars park on junctions, on double yellows, at bus stops. In fact the council in their stupidity even painted car parkng spaces at some bus stops. It ridicules all health and safety issues for boarding and alighting from buses. Dun Laoire Council should be prosecuted for painting double yellow lines as they are wasting tax payers money since there is no enforcement. Anonymous on "Service #75 Reg:99-D-10523" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/2270#post-2270 Mon, 17 May 2004 15:24:02 +0000 Anonymous 2270@http://busrage.com/forum/ 17th May 2004. Aprox 8am. To the driver of the above bus at Sandyford nr the LUAS junction this morning. You are a total prick and are totally iresponsible. In fact you should not have the responsibility of peoples lives on your vehicle. I am not going to go into detail as what you did. You already know this. Lets just say you are heading for another Headline Incident. And to think you find your actions amusing? You let your other fellow bus drivers down in shame and make the public judge all and one as the same as you. It has to be said you are a prick with a capital P and it concerns me that potentialy my friends and family and possibly even children may travel on your bus!? [posted by: Fellow Bus Driver] Al on "Whoopsie...O'Connell Street too slippery for buses...!" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/2347#post-2347 Fri, 04 Jun 2004 19:17:55 +0000 Al 2347@http://busrage.com/forum/ This is from an Irish Independent article. Link <a href="http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1192857" target="_new">here</a> for those who subscribe to their Unison.ie web pages, but for those who do not, here's some of the article: <blockquote>DUBLIN'S new-look O'Connell Street is to be sandblasted because buses are skidding dangerously on its shiny granite surface. Dublin Bus has raised concerns about the street, which only recently emerged from the chaos of Luas construction and a multi-million euro regeneration project. Now the city council has admitted there is a problem and says it will have to sandblast the eye-catching granite surface. The bus company wrote to the council after two recent incidents. In one, a bus skidded as soon as the driver hit the brakes. Dublin Bus raised serious concerns about the safety of the road's surface in wet weather.</blockquote> Who in blazes is letting these self-styled road designers loose onto O'Connell Street? It's a good thing that the KD-class isn't still around, otherwise they'd end up on their sides (and they were bad enough on wet asphalt). And who in blazes authorised the blatant "government pork" project of putting granite onto a street surface?? (Granite is for tomb-stones, not street surfaces...) Al on "Diversions in Dundrum; Buses doing the run-around" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/2339#post-2339 Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:06:42 +0000 Al 2339@http://busrage.com/forum/ Details <a href="http://www.dublinbus.ie/news_centre/timetable_and_route_news.asp?action=view&news_id=329" target="_new">here</a>. Basically, the 44/B/C and 48A are going to do a little dance around the Dundrum Bypass and Wycam Bypass, and the 75 will be running on Taney Road and Sydenham Road, same way the now-infrequent 86 runs. All so that the NRA can cover more of the sparse Dundrum landscape with TarMacAdam and white paint. (Going OT: As for the 86, I've never seen the timetable so pathetic in my lifetime. Hey, if you are going to re-extend the blasted service to Shankill beyond Rochestown Avenue roundabout, may as well go full-circle and send it back to its old terminus at Bray Daly Station, yes...??) Damien on "TrafficWatch comments" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/2112#post-2112 Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:33:14 +0000 Damien 2112@http://busrage.com/forum/ Has anyone had any comments regarding the Garda TrafficWatch service? I've made a few reports but never been contacted by the local Garda stations about them. Not very reassurring. And if there is no Garda available to take the report you are told to call back later - no queue!! And that 'speak the county' bit is a pain. (I wonder how it does with a very thick accent). Ray on "Park and Ride" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/1783#post-1783 Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:47:38 +0000 Ray 1783@http://busrage.com/forum/ While AA Roadwatch are displaying an extraordinary concern for the thousands???? of motorists who use the Sally Gap each morning, scant regard is paid to the great western thoroughfare called the N3 beyond Blanchardstown. If the Sally Gap is such an important route that inconveniences thousands when there is a bit of snow in the winter why doesn’t Wicklow County Council get out and do its job and clear the road, so that the thousands of motorists can speed over the mountains unhindered. Why don’t the AA instead focus on something real for a change? The N3 is bad in the mornings, and congestion is not just caused by people in the Dublin Bus catchment driving into town. It’s caused by all those people that live in County Meath that can’t get in any other way because Meath Bus don’t provide an adequate service. Why not consider “Park and Ride”? The car park needn’t be placed in the docks either. What about Fairyhouse Racecourse? That has a bloody great big car park that's empty all week. There's a site for a "Park and Ride" --- AND nobody from that area would have to drive into the city centre to use it. How about that Séamus?? Do you reckon you could get some privateers , oops I meant private operators, to set up routes from there, or are you only interested in giving them the lucrative Dublin Bus routes?????????? The same kind of operation could set up at Punchestown, Leopardstown but then maybe they're not near enough to the city centre to make a complete mollicks of it! AlekSmart on "Stream of Conciousness" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/1519#post-1519 Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:42:17 +0000 AlekSmart 1519@http://busrage.com/forum/ Freeflow 2003 is upon us and already we gaze upon the face of Agememnon and weep at his all encompassing knowledge. I give thanks daily for my unrelenting stupidity and I thank my deity for the presence of such Greatness as is contained within Dublin City Council`s offices. The salient points of FF03 are a Website and some "Imaginative" Traffic management alterations...to wit: The intrduction of Free on-street Parking in the city centre zone after 5 pm each wek day and Allday Sunday.....Fair enuf...That will keep the place moving alright....BUT the Piece de Resistance is the SUSPENSION of the Pearse St/College Green "Bus Gate" in order to once again allow through traffic to pass the elegant facade of Pearse St Garda Barracks. This SUSPENSION of Bus-Priority is really cutting edge and avant-garde in its nature as it follows on from a long and very thourough piece of civil engineering which saw the Kerbing at the Pearse St/Tara St Junction re-aligned as well as the Carriageway reduced to a single BusLane. The net effect of this was to make it physically difficult,nay impossible for CARS to SAFELY progress through towards College Green. Now At the stroke of a quill somebody on the 5th floor of Civic Offices decrees that the entire process was only a bit of a wheeze...... The threat of a Firing Squad would be too simple for them....! Al on "Today's Independent full of articles of road woes" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/1616#post-1616 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:09:38 +0000 Al 1616@http://busrage.com/forum/ All sorts of stuff under todays <a href="http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/index.php3?ca=9&issue_id=8252" target="_new">National News</a>including articles about drivers getting big insurance hikes for getting ticketed for speeding (welcome to the real world, lads), the failure of the five-year plan to reduce road deaths by 20 percent, two separate articles on the points system and how well-equipped the Gardaí are insofar as enforcing it, plus a shocking report about the fact that over 59 percent of drivers exceed the 60-mph speed limit and only 57 percent of drivers wear their seat belts. They sure make it sound like an utter free-for-all out on the asphalt. If you have a bus running by you, ride ityou will be well-protected if one of these mad drivers strikes the bus, rest assured. Al on "Ireland the worst greenhouse gas polluter in Europe" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/1541#post-1541 Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:16:08 +0000 Al 1541@http://busrage.com/forum/ This from an Irish Independent article (link <a href="http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1086970&issue_id=10112" target="_new">here</a>; requires registration to view). So, whats thisgreenhouse-gas emission in Ireland has risen a whopping 31 percent?!? while the EU only permitted a 13% rise until 2010 (but the rise will hit 40% by then). Now we face multi-million Euro fines for all of this car and lorry loving. What is the main cause? A runaway increase in emissions from transport, especially road transport according to the article. The current auto-friendly measures already in progress can only make things worse and worse. Will I have to wear a respirator next time Im on holidays back home or what? Al on "Should clearance of Port Tunnel be increased…?" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/1474#post-1474 Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:18:17 +0000 Al 1474@http://busrage.com/forum/ Thats the question posed by a new poll on <a href="http://www.rte.ie" target="_new">RTEs web site</a> today. As for why they are asking, I do not think that it would have a bearing upon increasing the clearance within the tunnel myselfbut many are of the idea that all of the supertrucks should be banned from Irish roads. Hmm, but that would mean that many bulk goods should be returned to the rails, and why would IE be keeping a strangle-hold on allowing that industry to re-develop? Al on "IE closes Donabate bridge for repair, 33B cannot go to Portrane?" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/1400#post-1400 Wed, 22 Oct 2003 04:01:51 +0000 Al 1400@http://busrage.com/forum/ Details <a href="http://www.dublinbus.ie/news_centre/timetable_and_route_news.asp?action=view&news_id=250" target="_new">here</a>. It isnt the NRA that does bridge replacement but IE? This is a road bridge in Donabate, not a railway bridge over a road. I would have not seen this as being part of railway infrastructure myself. However, there you go. IE is rebuilding or replacing the bridge, and road access to Portrane is completely cut off, seeminglywhich begs the question of why there is not a temporary bridge set up to cross the railway (like other civilised nations do), and how would people that drive in and out of Portrane get out to the N1? Or is it just the buses that have to suffer. This is rapidly making zero sense to me. As it stands, the 33B and that ridiculous route 33 side-trip via Portrane will stop at the Swords side of the station (which in logical terms means the northbound platform) while a shuttle bus service will await on the other side of the station. Is this setup making sense to anybody? Al on "RTE Poll concerning viability of public transportation" http://busrage.com/forum/topic/1398#post-1398 Mon, 20 Oct 2003 19:19:35 +0000 Al 1398@http://busrage.com/forum/ RTÉs new poll on their <a href="http://www.rte.ie" target="_new">home page</a> asks the question, Is public transport is a realistic alternative for commuters? (Yes, sadly, RTÉ proof-readers are not very good.) Only about three posts are on the <a href="http://www.rte.ie/comments/comments.html" target="_new">comments page</a> (which changes as the polls change, but there are archives); you would have to vote to add your own comments, but right now, the poll shows a majority believing that public transport is not a viable alternative, presumedly to driving, riding the bike or using the shoe-leather express. Yes, I know it is a poll by RTÉ, but let em know what your opinion is nonetheless