New bus gates on Bachelors Walk and Aston Quay

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😏 I suppose now that we've removed through traffic from the city now, traffic will be much better and bus journeys faster. Or will they stay just the same because they have failed to address the key problems the bus network suffers from: too many bus routes, too many bus stops, too long dwell time and inappropriate traffic signalling.

The private car cannot currently be blamed for congestion on Dame St or George's St - there it is almost entirely the result of buses and taxis trying to negotiate a a pedestrian and vehicle bottleneck at college Green and especially in the evenings, wholly inappropriate numbers of taxis.

The private car does cause congestion but the policies of DCC had made operating one in the city so awkward and difficult with routes so circuitous that only necessary journeys were made in the city anyway severely limiting congestion by this type of traffic. The study about through traffic was flawed due to a limited definition of the centre, where traffic through to destinations most would consider city to be classified as through.

This change to traffic will not be successful in shortening journey times in this specific instance since it fails to address the main problem, right turning bus movements onto OCB from bachelor walk and the segregation of pedestrians from major junctions. The private car had such low priority here already that completely removing them will offer very little.

In the real world, though, rain tends to push some people who ordinarily walk or cycle onto the bus, and some people who ordinarily bus it into their cars. The traffic is always worse when it rains, that is a simple fact of life.

It was also Tuesday, which is a far heavier traffic day than Monday. Mondays and Fridays are still the most common WFH days, so traffic was always going to be heavier today than yesterday.

If only. Still plans to run every spine via O'Connell Bridge in some capacity rather than spreading them out across the entirety of the river.

Is the left turn to O'Connell street gone?

There's still connectivity in other areas. A couple spines can be rerouted to run down Church Street and across Father Matthew Bridge and they would still have interchange potential with every other spine (barring the H-spine, but that thing is so disconnected from the rest of the network as it is anyway…)

How would people get to Arnotts car park?