How can we curtail bus lane misuse

I highly doubt traffic levels would be high enough at night for bus lane violations to be that much of a big deal

Why in god's name would civilians want to be a part of this?

The amount of time and effort for zero reward.

Whatever about making a report on something serious that resulted in an accident especially a fatal one, but making reports on every lil racer zipping up the bus lane??

And no I don't use the bus lane even when out of hours.

But I can certainly think if much better ways to spend my time.

Pick your battles n all that!

I think I’d prefer the bus driver to be focussed on safely driving the bus rather than getting involved in taking photos.

Every time you involve human interaction, it becomes a potential minefield in the courts. The process needs to be automated.

As an aside, every bus operating on Dublin City services and those in provincial cities is already fitted with forward facing cameras as it is.

Another thread from the OP looking to target drivers. Clearly a chip on the shoulder and as such should be ignored as potentially trolling

the one yesterday about 'assumed liability'

anyway

Maybe all bicycles should have GPS trackers and tech to decree when they break red lights and a fine is automatically garnished from their PAYE salary or social welfare

There are shops on the malahide road near Farview. Most only open at 10am because people can't park before then. There is only a need for a bus lane on this particular part of the road for 4 hours in the morning. It would be silly to force the shops out of business for a bus lane that isn't needed.

24/7 bus lanes, just for the sake of it is a ridiculous idea. 24/7 bus lanes where there is a genuine need is a brilliant idea

To be fair this is a real problem for the bus service and something does need to done about the misuse or blocking of bus lanes and yellow boxes.

We can’t go on effectively just rolling our eyes and doing nothing if we want the bus service to work.

But the solution has to be automated.

One traffic warden sitting on front of a bank of cameras will do a lot more than the current waste of time having them walking around doing nothing.

You obviously don't know the area on the malahide road I'm talking about. There is nowhere for a delivery truck to legally pull in for quite a distance.

It isn’t a bus driver’s job and nor should it be.

There are other ways of doing this.

What you’re suggesting would be unnecessarily distracting and I suspect a legal minefield.

Painting a yellow box is just as much of a waste of time and money as painting a line on a road and saying there’s a cycle lane.

gardai wont do it properly though, there will be all the usual BS with discretion etc, individual gardai simply cannot be trusted to correctly fine people every time.

Mobile cameras (ie on buses) that auto forward the data is the only way for it to work. fixed cameras will only solve the problem is very particular areas.

"there’s no reason why all bus lanes shouldn’t be 24/7" - there is, some bus lanes, actually most bus lanes where I live only have 1 bus every hour maximum 9 to 5 mon to fri and some bus lanes are so short that they are comical and cause problems for traffic that is not local.

that isn't quite what I said - I just pointed out that the OP has twice in two days started threads targeting drivers. I made no comment on anything related to driving in bus lanes

Also - 24 hour bus lanes across the board - total nonsense.