New bus gates on Bachelors Walk and Aston Quay

On road links crossing the river to the West, probably not at all feasible but there's access for service vehicles off Porterstown Road (and a service vehicle depot?). Could this possibly be remodelled to allow public transport access (barrier controls at Porterstown Rd), thus linking the N4/Liffey Valley to Coolimine, Blanch and beyond? I've no idea what engineering works this would require!!

Back on topic, the bus gates were being very well observed today. I crossed O'Connell Bridge a couple of times and cycled down Aston Quay from Westmoreland St on the way home. No cars broke the rules that I saw.

An unfortunate downside of the bus gate is that taxis on Aston Quay now move very fast. Not nice when you're navigating the cratered road on a bike!

What would the issue be with enforcement? Many years ago, I was in a queue of traffic in North City Dublin approaching a major, light-controlled junction, planning to turn left at it. Being the impatient youngster that I was, at 500m back from the junction, I took a left into a housing estate, followed by a right and left to skip the traffic. Immediately before I reached the main road I was aiming for, I was pulled over by a Garda and informed I would be receiving a fine and a penalty point for making an illegal turn - entering the housing estate was (quite reasonably) banned at peak times except for access to prevent it being used as a rat run.

There is no legal impediment to enforcement. Whether there's the political will to actually do the enforcement is an entirely different question.

The original plan for Bachelor's Walk was to extend the pedestrian area because cars were meant to turn left onto Jervis.

Now they have this kludge because nothing much changed on Bachelor's Walk and it's only 7-7 but their need for traffic cones on the bridge shows, it does need some form of traffic management