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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    there you go - instant retort to the 'road tax' argument. it would take about 30 years worth of road tax for my car to 'repay' the claimed figure above.
    maybe people should come up with their own incorrect name for motor tax, play them at their own game, see if they get irritated.

    “Cars and vans are responsible for 10,000 early deaths each year, and diesel vehicles are the main problem unfortunately.”

    Maybe "early death tax", "health cost tax" or something. Seeing as the taxes really all go into a central fund and have to pay for stuff.

    If 100% of motorists decided to illegally evade paying motor tax do the people calling it road tax really believe there would be no upkeep of the roads or something?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭Rechuchote


    Zombie tax?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 53,182 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    there's a yellow ford capri i often meet on newtownpark avenue - which is quite a cool car - but by god, you can smell it when it passes. and it struck me - and not for the first time - 'my god, you're actually able to do that - you're allowed pump proven (burnt and unburnt) carcinogens into the air for the benefit of moving a single person around'.
    though that is a *little* hypocritical of me. i own a petrol engined car. and i heat my house using a fossil fuel (gas) and firewood.

    one bugbear of mine is the recent demonisation of things like straws and plastic cutlery. people who think they've been good to the environment by eschewing a straw, but think nothing of a 50km round trip to work where they've used a couple of litres of diesel or petrol, and pumped the output into the air.

    i've often said it, but i think one of the best things we could do is put transparent fuel tanks in cars. most people never see petrol or diesel, much less quite how much they actually burn in cars, which is quite significant - one fill in a normal car three or four weeks is about one tonne of fuel over the course of the year.. at least with home heating oil, you can see the size of the tank.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 53,182 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i got this immediately after i posted the above. the irony is sweet.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Grassey


    Maybe it's the hot weather and the lack of breeze but this week I've really noticed the stank of fumes while cycling. By the time I'm halfway home. My mouth feels like I've been licking carpet! Bring back the wet months I say!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Grassey




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,327 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Grassey wrote: »
    Bring back the wet months I say!

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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Grassey wrote: »

    Awww now that's just lovely!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    Dublin homes to lose gardens and parking under ‘high speed’ bus route plan

    very vague on the details of the "200km of cycle lanes" that are to be provided.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    Woman in her 50s dies after being hit by a car in Co Tipperary
    Woman was walking on the hard shoulder with a child on a bicycle beside her :(


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 53,182 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭Duckjob


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    Woman in her 50s dies after being hit by a car in Co Tipperary
    Woman was walking on the hard shoulder with a child on a bicycle beside her :(

    RIP to that poor lady and condolences to her family.

    Until the societal culture in Ireland changes so that drivers driving like they don't give a sh*t around vunerable road users is simply not tolerated from a legal standpoint, these incidents will unfortunately continue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,327 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Dublin homes to lose gardens and parking under ‘high speed’ bus route plan

    very vague on the details of the "200km of cycle lanes" that are to be provided.
    I don't suppose there is any chance that they would try making the existing bus lanes work by clearing out the parked cars, vans and trucks before we go building the next generation?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭Rechuchote


    Point of the Core Bus Corridors is that they don't stop and start, though, unlike the current ones which run along until they reach a narrower road that has no bus lane.

    A bit mad to allow the millions of taxis to use them, though.


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,277 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    I think we should be careful what we wish for. If they decide to legislate to ban taxis, they made decide to ban bikes as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Borderfox


    From listening to Ann Graham (I think) on Newstalk that was on the cards, maybe they will designate the bus lane differently to other ones and only allow buses?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Arcade_Tryer


    I think we should be careful what we wish for. If they decide to legislate to ban taxis, they made decide to ban bikes as well.
    That would make zero sense. It would be an entirely childish reaction and symptomatic of the reasoning skills of a particularly stupid child.


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,277 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Borderfox wrote: »
    From listening to Ann Graham (I think) on Newstalk that was on the cards, maybe they will designate the bus lane differently to other ones and only allow buses?

    Certainly wasn’t mentioned in the proposal released. As mentioned on the other thread would require legislation change. Be odd if they left out such a significant element.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,174 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Certainly wasn’t mentioned in the proposal released. As mentioned on the other thread would require legislation change. Be odd if they left out such a significant element.

    Aye, I've not seen anything that states with any clarity that cyclists are being prohibited from the new lanes. They are bus lanes, and any bus lane is a cycle lane (and not all of them are taxi lanes). Seems to be a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt being spread about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Grassey


    buffalo wrote: »
    Seems to be a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt being spread about.

    Seems to be the best way to kill any progressive idea in the country!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭Rechuchote


    Grassey wrote: »
    Seems to be the best way to kill any progressive idea in the country!

    The pearl-clutching is strong with this country.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,067 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    I don't suppose there is any chance that they would try making the existing bus lanes work by clearing out the parked cars, vans and trucks before we go building the next generation?

    +1 Had to go through town the other day for the first time in awhile. Every bus lane and bike lane had cars parked in, either temporarily (blinkers on) or abandoned. While some were non mandatory, the majority of them seemed to be being used illegally. Not to mention people parking in a fashion that made either pinch points or effectively inhibited movement of all traffic.

    My favourite is the Offaly reg car beside the Topaz on the inward bound N11. The owner of the house is too lazy to drive it in so they block the footpath entirely for most of the day. No one seems to care, the Gardai must pass it twenty times a day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,518 ✭✭✭axer


    buffalo wrote: »
    (and not all of them are taxi lanes)
    Do you know is it that they are taxi lanes unless specified otherwise e.g. college green in Dublin?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,174 ✭✭✭buffalo


    axer wrote: »
    Do you know is it that they are taxi lanes unless specified otherwise e.g. college green in Dublin?

    Yes. Taxis are allowed use bus lanes, except when they're not.

    https://goo.gl/maps/fSZpPeb8Tym


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    buffalo wrote: »
    Yes. Taxis are allowed use bus lanes, except when they're not.

    https://goo.gl/maps/fSZpPeb8Tym

    they're not allowed in contra-flow bus lanes anyway, hence that side of the green and Leeson st outbound.

    doesn't stop loads of private cars and taxis using them but that's another issue...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,327 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    CramCycle wrote: »
    +1 Had to go through town the other day for the first time in awhile. Every bus lane and bike lane had cars parked in, either temporarily (blinkers on) or abandoned. While some were non mandatory, the majority of them seemed to be being used illegally. Not to mention people parking in a fashion that made either pinch points or effectively inhibited movement of all traffic.

    My favourite is the Offaly reg car beside the Topaz on the inward bound N11. The owner of the house is too lazy to drive it in so they block the footpath entirely for most of the day. No one seems to care, the Gardai must pass it twenty times a day.

    Charlemont St bus lane has multiple builders vans and NI cars every morning during rush hour.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,260 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    Hazards grant an exemption from the law, particularly for taxis (who've a derogation from the entire corpus of traffic legislation) don't you know? :pac:

    One thing about illegal parkers (panel vans, whichever) on footpaths is that while they don't take up much of the adjoining road, it necessitates being triply watchful.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    Charlemont St bus lane has multiple builders vans and NI cars every morning during rush hour.

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    I pass here twice a day, in the morning and at lunchtime. It is awful. Cars and vans parked up, huge trucks everywhere and builders appearing from between the parked cars right into your path.

    It is really is the pits


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