New bus gates on Bachelors Walk and Aston Quay

They were only a **** show because of the design of the junction and the lights installed to give buses priority on the north quays.

This is solution to an entirely DCC created problem.

To give a sort of benefit of the doubt, I suppose there are some motorists today and throughout this week who do not watch news or engage in social media and genuinely will only be encountering and become aware of these changes for the first time as they directly hit upon them on the quays and will incorrectly use the revised routes as they missed the correct turn offs too late. I'd like to think this is just teething issues rather than wilful ignorance and will improve as time goes on with familiarity. You'll always have ignoramuses that will continue to disobey though but hopefully that's the minority.

Creatures of habit are a funny thing though. I know people who continued to "not see" the revised destination signs for the newer free flow lanes at M50 junctions for a year or more after they were introduced and continued to use the more lengthy and time consuming signal controlled routes because "that's the way they always drove it". I'd imagine a cohort of today and this week's drivers on the quays are similar.

People who drive their kids to school then drive on to the office rather than taking public transport is one element

The holidays as mentioned just above is another - at any given time in July and August I'd say about a fifth of my office is on holidays; this week its virtually nobody.

Hopefully, I don't commute through the city centre but spend most days in it doing van deliveries. Just get a pain in the hole when they don't make allowances for me! Even allowing delivery vans to use the quays wouldn't affect the buses that much but I know it's difficult to enforce as you will then have every builder in a van using them. I'll report back if I'm down around O'Connell bridge over the next while

I'm not saying this from a "lecturing" perspective, but is there any benefit in negotiating pre and post 7am/7pm slots for deliveries on your existing route?

I suppose it depends on whether the recipients are available at those times.

My nephew was doing deliveries for a while in town, and I know full well how bad it can get for you. Hope things improve in time.

The bigger picture here is that the buses themselves cause a lot of congestion. The north quays for example already had laybys and a dedicated bus lane, with a bus light and there was still delays to buses because they get in the way of each other.

The fact that DCC and DB treat a number of streets as open air bus stations is a huge part of the congestion problem in Dublin.