New bus gates on Bachelors Walk and Aston Quay

Must be a payoff situation then.

The Dun Laoghaire Plan will be reversed, just the way this one in the city centre is going.

The writing is all the wall, you're the one deluding yourself.

Didn't you also tell us the Clontarf works would stop within weeks?

I stand by my record.

Strand Road still looks like this, doesn't it?

Salthill Prom still looks like this, doesn't it?

The city centre measures will be cancelled - or go to Court, and so will Dun Laoghaire before it ever gets near a shovel in the ground.

Battles are won and lost, but the war continues.

Guinness can take a hike! Yes a hike around the prescribed motorway network out to the M50 on the road beside their factory and around to the port. They have no business rattling up the quays.

They have no problem delivery a keg or two to every corner of this island in the most rural of places. They can bring their HGVs off our city streets. They are coining it in with their experience there and off Dubliners.

I have a few reasons. The first is that satnav apps typically handle time-based restrictions poorly, often ignoring them completely sending motorists the wrong way.

Secondly, people are a bit gormless when they’re driving. If they’re allowed make turns a certain times but not others, they’ll make those turns when they’re not allowed because then won’t even see the signs telling them otherwise.

Not all people are gormless, lots are chancers. If restrictions end at 7pm, you’ll get people chancing their arm at 6:45 and at 6:30.

Lastly and maybe most importantly, it removes the ability for the council to back-up the restrictions with physical infrastructure. If a turn is allowed at some times, the road layout must allow that turn at all times.

But the proposal (even the original one) would not stop anyone driving into town at any time.

Absolutely not, the idea is to make things better for people traveling by bus. There is only a limited amount of road space, so surely it should be allocated for the more efficient modes of transport.

I am often in town in the evenings and at weekends and the traffic can be even worse than at rush hours and certainly worse than on weekday afternoons, so if there were to be restricted hours they would have to be much greater than 7am to 7pm on Mondays to Friday. In fact, if the bus gate is not needed at some times due to low traffic, then I don't see that it would really inconvenience car drivers in any way, except for some very particular journeys.

As a disabled driver, I would also suggest that you should be firmly in support of the scheme. If public transport is vastly improved then the people who can use it will use it, leaving more space for the people who have to use cars. Everyone will be a winner.

Of course the long term plan should be to build a network of metro and Luas lines, but this sort of scheme is vital as a stopgap, otherwise everyone will be stuck in traffic. It always amazes me the number of people who own cars due to the 'freedom' they bring, but then then they say that they wouldn't go into town due to the traffic (of course things are different in the country but we are discussing Dublin here).

No.

I see there is to be a protest on Monday evening at City Hall by this basket of deplorables. Get a job lads ffs

There will be the B, C, D and G Spines running along the Quays when BusConnects is finished. They are some of the busiest corridors in the city (Blanchardstown, Lucan, Crumlin Road and Ballyfermot), and will be high frequency from early morning till late at night - go and look at the loadings in the evenings on the 39/39a or the C Spine & G Spine and you'll see that they are very heavily used all day long.

The re-routing of the D-Spine (Crumlin Road routes) from Dame Street will result in an additional 25 buses an hour using the Quays in either direction all day long.

Each spine will operate 24/7 (the 39a and the routes on the C and G Spines already do). That in all likelihood will be around 15 buses per hour in each direction overnight along the Quays.

As a previous poster said, people will often either through confusion or deliberate acts abuse situations like this where there are restricted operating hours. Having the measures operating 24/7 avoids that confusion and abuse.

It's also not simply about giving buses more priority (making them more efficient and more attractive to use), but also about reducing the numbers of cars through the city centre, and making it a nicer place to be, and allowing for longer pedestrian crossing times at O'Connell Bridge through eliminating right turns.

I'm trying to make an argument, I'm trying to insult them.

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice?? Give me a piggin break.

And the rest are just the usual tree huggers and crusties.

I see Shakepeare has granted the Commuter Coalition a meeting anyway, keeping them on a string is no harm until he announces what he's doing.