Cork traffic

I was walking by the Opera House on Monday evening & noticed somebody waiting to make the right turn. Unfortunately (for them!) they didn't notice the Garda jeep a few cars back who stuck on their blue lights & drove up beside them. I didn't catch the lecture but they reconsidered their right turn decision & went straight on instead.

Yesterday I went for a jog out the Straight Road after work, from Inchigaggin lane onwards I was overtaking cars all the way to the turnoff to the Anglers Rest & I'm not a fast runner!

Bus priority hours today once again ignored, Patrick's Street full of private cars.

Bollards were also down on Oliver Plunkett Street this afternoon... With motorists taking full advantage.

There is also one in Maylor Street!

Looks like guy guy was parking in cycle lane and other guy was taking a pic of him and illegal parker took issue with this and got violent.

Just what it looks like to me, I have no insight to this.

But, whatever happened, the guy with the glasses is the scumbag, here. He started the violence and escalated it.

Edit : Cork beo are suggesting that there might have been a small collision but I don't know what they are basing that on.

Last night I was standing outside my local when a car driving down the street decided to do a u turn. Without stopping or really slowing, he turned sharply, kinda freaking me out as he was heading directly for me. He braked hard and reversed aggressively, and pulled forward quickly again turning to go back the way he came.

While musing this odd occurrence I looked down the street to see a cop car ahead of him making a u turn to go after him! They must have seen is aggressive u turn in the mirror and decided it wasn't on.

With the Mccurtain Street revamp in use a while, now, I can't figure out why anyone (apart from buses) needs to travel the new direction. As I understand it, the only way onto it is from Brian Boru Street. And the only place you can get to is the Watercourse road junction by Hegarty's/Ross motorcycles. What is the point of it? Wouldn't you just continue along the quays?

Yes, it's pointless. And further, while I can't claim to have performed a comprehensive survey, and don't usually use MacCurtain St anymore (was daily before) due to the disaster that is the quays, any time I have driven or walked the street since the changes I have yet to see a single bus heading west (new direction)!

No need for the sarcasm. I'm simply expressing surprise that I have yet to see a bus on what was sold as a public transport corridor. I'm sure there are buses....but how many?

Three routes using it Westbound - 207, 208 and 209. About 120 buses on a weekday.