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

Car drivers pay towards the upkeep and maintenance of the streets and roads.

It would seem a little perverse if they were not able to use those same streets and roads.

The people own the city streets, indeed. And not every person in the city wants to see it transformed into a bus only network.

The Bus Gates proposal started out as a compromise between car users and bus users. BOTH modes of transport represent the people.

We will never have a situation where 100% of people visiting the city centre do so by public transport.

A compromise is fair and I think that is broadly where we are at now, as far as this proposal is concerned.

How often do you see a Guard in the city centre?

For the limited time they are visible, enforcing minor traffic violations is the last thing I want them to prioritise.

Bring in cameras and fine poor road behaviour that way.

Car drivers pay towards the upkeep and maintenance of the streets and roads.

This isn't true (any more than for any other central tax). Motor tax is paid into the central fund, there is no specific allocation of motor tax to particular types of expenditure

Nowhere did I suggest redirecting currently deployed Gardaí to enforce traffic violations. I responded to a poster asking if it was legally possible to enforce a particular type of violation, confirming that it was.

Separately, I queried whether there was the political will to do what's needed to properly enforce the law. I made no comment on how it should be achieved. But since you brought it up, yes, Dublin City should be absolutely blanketed with a massive amount of cameras for the enforcement of traffic laws. That it hasn't already been speaks to the lack of political will.

And there's still too many cars in London

They can be as bad as we are sometimes. I can't understand how cars are still allowed drive in around Soho. I used live on a street absolutely perfect for full pedestrianisation and all we ever got was traffic calming.