New bike lane being built at the arse end of skehard road. What's the point?

There are 2 lines still on the road - this morning a Driver decides to use the middle (old) line to come towards me making me stop on the road until they saw what they were doing.

Nowhere in above sentence do I mention a Bus.

Exactly this.

Regarding cycle lanes, generally in Cork, I really can't get over just how badly designed and conceived almost all of them are. If cycling I rarely use most of them as they give cyclists less priority they would have on the road and they constantly feed cyclists onto footpaths and/or are situated such that pedestrians constantly walk in them. Others are so short, you wonder what the point of them are. Add in zero enforcement for parking in them, too.

They are almost all worse than useless in that they annoy both motorists and pedestrians and have virtually no benefit to cyclists.

Cycling from the city centre to Douglas is always an experience

It’s fine until you get to Copley Street when there’s a significant wait to cross. Then you need to wait again at South Terrace. When you’re going up Infirmary Road, you have to watch out for cars turning onto Old Blackrock Road. You have a cycle lane until High Street, but then you need to get into the traffic lane which isn’t easy when it’s busy. Then you need to get around the cars outside the hospital, which isn’t too bad. But there’s a tiny cycle lane in front of Tesco. It’s pointless going in it as you need to get out 10 seconds later which involves yielding, but you feel bad for not using it if there’s a car behind. The lines technically tell you to merge onto the footpath and then get back onto the next lane by BelAir, but that’s risky given how narrow the footpath is and it’s on a bend so you can’t see pedestrians on coming. Then you have another tiny cycle lane by Bel Air that is pointless to use as again you need to yield to get out of it 10 seconds after you get in. From Cross Douglas Road to Rosebank you have a tiny bit of white line to make you feel secure. You have a good cycle lane then all the way into Douglas, except for outside the Briar Rose. The red resin is gone and the lines have completely faded away, so it’s often parked in at school times. Then when you get to the AIB, the lane starts to get narrow and people drive in it. You’re then dumped out at the messy junction of Douglas Road and Well Road. Which is always annoying as the footpath under the bridge is like a runway it’s so wide. They should continue the cycle lane through the junction and at it at the pedestrian crossing as at least then you have a safe place to yield. Despite the width of Douglas Relief Road, there’s no cycle lane bringing you to Maryborough Hill’s cycle lane. From there it’s fine until you get to the N28 on ramp, but again you’re dumped out into an awkward and busy junction with a really bad road surface. It’s not fun

All of this is better than nothing, but so many of the lanes are effectively useless and clearly box ticking exercises. It was clearly designed with the least amount of disruption possible to drivers

The the general attitude to installing cycling lanes, from what I can see, is to put them where they can fit, not where they're needed. They often appear in wide, safe roads, then disappear once the road narrows and there's no hard shoulder. Utterly pointless.