Bus Éireann city services

GerardKeating

xckjoo wrote: »

Close off College Road to all except buses and local cars and use Lough Atalia for car traffic?

Perhaps difficult to police.

Maybe both College Road and Lough Atalia one way with a Bus Lane, Traffice goes one and in the other.

zell12

GerardKeating wrote: »

Perhaps difficult to police.
Maybe both College Road and Lough Atalia one way with a Bus Lane, Traffice goes one and in the other.

That's what I said but I was dismissed :mad:

bobbyss

Issue easily identifiable stickers for cars. Gardai to monitor for a while. Issue huge fines for breakers.

Ashleigh1986

Lads .... Take a look around galway city this week .
Cars parked up all along foster street .
All along eglinton street .
Gardai walking by doing nothing about it .
Where else would you get it .
Free parking at the busiest time of the year .
If galway traffic wants to be sorted , zero tolerance for these motorists who don't want yo pay for parking.

testtech05

Ashleigh1986 wrote: »

Lads .... Take a look around galway city this week .
Cars parked up all along foster street .
All along eglinton street .
Gardai walking by doing nothing about it .
Where else would you get it .
Free parking at the busiest time of the year .
If galway traffic wants to be sorted , zero tolerance for these motorists who don't want yo pay for parking.

It's a free for all at times alright. Was pleasantly surprised today to see police issuing a good few tickets to cars parked illegally down around woodquay earlier though.

Ashleigh1986

Gardai are a joke in this city .
Giving tickets to vehicles that aren't causing traffic chaos and ignoring places like foster street / eglinton street / back the west that are causing traffic problems daily .
Not one bit of commonsense among any of the galway gardai .
Salthill all this week , cars with the parking hazards on , with the " I'm only popping into the shop for a minute brigade " .
Bus drivers all this week must be going off the head trying to get around galway .

GerardKeating

bobbyss wrote: »

Issue easily identifiable stickers for cars. Gardai to monitor for a while. Issue huge fines for breakers.

So people living on the two streets in question cannot have visitors or deliveries is what you are saying then, same for the various business on the roads, which include quite a few B&B's

Ashleigh1986

Let's take foster street for a minute .
From 12am to 7pm it should be no parking zone .
Take out bus lane .
Right lane only for turning right up by o Connells bar .
Left lane only to be used to go down by the docks .
Put proper signage up warning motorists of parking on this road during these times.
All deliveries for shops / pubs to be done by 12am.
Zero tolerance and on the spot fines of €100 .

Mrs OBumble

Ashleigh1986 wrote: »

Let's take foster street for a minute .
From 12am to 7pm it should be no parking zone .
Take out bus lane .
Right lane only for turning right up by o Connells bar .
Left lane only to be used to go down by the docks .
Put proper signage up warning motorists of parking on this road during these times.
All deliveries for shops / pubs to be done by 12am.
Zero tolerance and on the spot fines of €100 .

Pubs taking deliveries at night ehen they're full of customers. Yeah, i can see that working well.

And removing one of the few bus lanes? No. Just no.

bobbyss

GerardKeating wrote:

So people living on the two streets in question cannot have visitors or deliveries is what you are saying then, same for the various business on the roads, which include quite a few B&B's

But this experience is not unique to Galway. There are bus lanes going past many houses in Dublin and I'm sure in other cities where the owners themselves can't even park outside never mind visitors. It's no big deal. We can't stop development because people say " I can't park outside my own house so there can't be a bus lane there'.

Ashleigh1986

Mrs Bumble ....where in my post does it say pubs taking deliveries at night ?
My point is deliveries must be made before 12am .
As for the bus lane on foster street .
I drive in that road on several occasions each day .
It's constantly been blocked by cars .
The buses can't use it as it is .
Open your eyes when your in the city .
Even today a business owner had their 4x4 parked up outside his premises.
This 4x4 was parked up for over 3 hours .
Did it receive a ticket ???
No is the answer .

McGiver

Ashleigh1986 wrote:

Mrs Bumble ....where in my post does it say pubs taking deliveries at night ? My point is deliveries must be made before 12am .

Did you mean by noon i.e. 12pm then?

Ashleigh1986

When I say 12 am I mean by 12 in the morning .

ben.schlomo

No no you mean by 12 in the afternoon.

Gremlinertia

Noon or midnight.. Just for some clarity.

Ashleigh1986

Sweet Jesus .
Some of the posters on this forum need to get a life .
I'd say ye would be great crack in the pub .
Billy no mates .
Constantly correcting things .
Craytures
Stick to yer bikes lads .
If ye had yer way , we would all still be on penny farthings .

gordongekko

Ashleigh1986 wrote: »

Sweet Jesus .
Some of the posters on this forum need to get a life .
I'd say ye would be great crack in the pub .
Billy no mates .
Constantly correcting things .
Craytures
Stick to yer bikes lads .
If ye had yer way , we would all still be on penny farthings .

Well bikes would solve the traffic problem

Stevolende

Have all the BUs services from Eyre square just changed their last run outwards to 11.20 or did we have a bus driver leave early on the 409 route tonight?
I'm being told that the 402 has changed its last departure time, but seems a bit counterproductive to go earlier for last bus when people are having to leave events early to get to the 11.30 departure. Would hope that development would be heading in the other direction, towards more accommodating last bus times.

There were at least 5 people standing at the Eyre square 409 stop from shortly after 11.20pm wondering where the bus had got to. Bus timetable said 11.30 but there was no bus to be seen. Hoping this is not something taht is going to be repeated with any frequency if this was a bus driver leaving early. That last bus is a crucial service for a lot of people.

Stevolende

Was that a one off then? Last bus scheduled for 11.30 leaves by about 11.22, we'd just checked the time around then because the last 402 had passed us. & there were a number of people standing at the bus stop for the 409.
& checking watches etc as 11.30 passed. Several of us wound up having to share a taxi back when we should have had a bus that was scheduled.

what_traffic

what_traffic wrote: »

It is a good idea. One solution is Bus Gates.
City Council should just install a BUS Gates on College Road on the East side of the City and a BUS Gate on Salmon Weir Bridge on the West side of the City.
Would start with then been operational for certain periods of the day like 07h00 -> 10h00 and 15h00-> 19h00

https://connachttribune.ie/plans-for-radical-changes-to-galway-citys-traffic-flow-090/

"
Mr Finn explained that in the new plan, vehicles would not be allowed to enter at one end of College Road and exit the other – there would be no ‘through traffic’. It would be for local access only and priority would be given to buses on this road.
"

Fitz*

Have stopped taking the BE service daily now. But I still do use the service maybe 2-4 times a week.

I have changed routes from the 405 -> the 401. The 401( old 403) was very bad in terms of quantity of services and seems to have improved a good bit in this, in the amount of services I see available. The times may not be 100% but at least the quantity seems to be there, which certainly makes up some bit. I wouldn't mind waiting an extra few mins than the scheduled time if a bus was guaranteed to come within the few minutes rather than just hoping that one arrives within an hour.

Is the 405 is still as bad as it was, especially at peak times?

Anyone have any other comments to add to other routes?

McGiver

FitzShane wrote:

I have changed routes from the 405 -> the 401. The 401( old 403) was very bad in terms of quantity of services and seems to have improved a good bit in this, in the amount of services I see available. The times may not be 100% but at least the quantity seems to be there, which certainly makes up some bit. I wouldn't mind waiting an extra few mins than the scheduled time if a bus was guaranteed to come within the few minutes rather than just hoping that one arrives within an hour.

Are you referring to the To or From town route? Or both of them?

ben.schlomo

McGiver wrote: »

FitzShane wrote:

I have changed routes from the 405 -> the 401. The 401( old 403) was very bad in terms of quantity of services and seems to have improved a good bit in this, in the amount of services I see available. The times may not be 100% but at least the quantity seems to be there, which certainly makes up some bit. I wouldn't mind waiting an extra few mins than the scheduled time if a bus was guaranteed to come within the few minutes rather than just hoping that one arrives within an hour.

Are you referring to the To or From town route? Or both of them?

Same issues in or out sure, it's a cross city route which at peak is never going to be reliable.

Mrs OBumble

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Same issues in or out sure, it's a cross city route which at peak is never going to be reliable.

Going cross town has made the ex 403 more reliable. Used to be dreadful. Now manages to be quite consistent. Go figure.

ben.schlomo

It gained more services and it's a much less busy route to the one the 405 takes.

Fitz*

Ok, maybe I should take that back. In the last 2 days, j have seen the 401 blatantly ignore the Mervue turn off on the Parkmore -> Salthill route and just keep hearing towards the Huntsman.