Ist es an der Zeit, Taxis von den Busspuren zu verbannen?
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Von TheHipsterPotato
Ist es an der Zeit, Taxis von den Busspuren zu verbannen?
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Von TheHipsterPotato
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No.
No
Why? This backup is due to road works nothing else
Yes, Taxis take up the same amount of space as a private car so mass transport should be prioritised
Why? This backup is due to road works nothing else
There’s literally only 1.5 taxis in front of you here.
What about allowing full cars use the bus lanes. Anything less than 4 people in the car must use the regular lanes. Ah, who am I kidding. They can’t / won’t enforce the rules that exist already.
They need to get rid of 50% of bus stops. It’s absolutely painful stopping every hundred metres
They are already, unless they have a fare I believe. Not that it is enforced.
No , Taxis are part of our Public Transport System and absolutely require access to all our roads.
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So the bus you are in can move up 30 feet and be blocked by the next bus.
Nope taxis are public transport too.
I agree, ban taxis from bus lanes. The driver gets paid if they are sitting in traffic anyway, so the only person losing out is the occupant of the taxi. And why should they get preferential treatment?
Apparently, taxis only have rights to bus lanes on a trial basis. The trial started in the 1980s but was never ended nor formalised. Whether true or not, the thought of removing them now would be met with significant backlash from taxi drivers who have no issue protesting by clogging the network.
Anyone involved in public transport planning will tell you that we need to take them out of buslanes because they create turbulence in the system. They aren’t constrained to a schedule or stopping only at defined points. This delays busses and makes busses a less favourable option.
No.
It was time 5 years ago.
The time was back when Michael O’Leary incorporated his personal car as a single-vehicle taxi firm to use the bus lanes on his commute.
I don’t know if it’s just urban legend at this stage but I’ve been told by various sources that taxis in bus lanes is still officially a trial. It was just never ended. So no legislation needed. Just stop the trial.
The taxis will hold some mega protests and choke the city for ages but it might be worth the pain.
No. Taxi drivers have enough shit yo put up with. I did it for ten years. Anyway if the council tried that the cabbies would just block the road in protest.
I have never understood why taxis get to use bus lanes.
No… I am someone who uses taxi’s a lot. Taxi’s are very expensive, what’s the point in taking a taxi to get to your destination even quicker if you have to use normal lanes and be stuck in traffic?
the problem is lack of decent public transport. would you rather take 2 or 3 buses to get where you need to go or in less than half the time hop on a taxi and be comfortable? this city needs the feckin metro and then some more
I’ve been saying this for year. Taxis using the bus lane with nobody in the car is a joke. Then they pull into the regular lane without indicating just because the bus has stopped at a bus stop. Causing people to jam on the brakes and that usually having a knock on traffic effect.
It won’t make any significant difference. The problem with traffic is more to do with system wide design. There might be specific intersections that it could make a difference but it’s just a bandaid that’s more likely to be used to act like action is being taken in lue of meaningful change to the system.
I’ve never really understood why anyone thinks they’re public transport.
Most of them are fact ones the amount of them I’ve came across since drive told me I’d they don’t have a printer for the receipt they are fake always watch your fares too
Taxis in bus lanes don’t really slow busses down all that much. Yes, around College Green it gets a bit hectic but generally it’s fine. There’s not that many of them. Taxis stopping suddenly and without indicating is a bigger issue, along with just pulling in and blocking the road, and doing U turns and so on.
A bigger problem is normal traffic in the bus lanes when turning left. Cars get into the bus lane early, sometimes very early and you can lose several turns at the lights because of this.
HOWEVER, if you want to fix most of the problems with busses, just add more busses. More busses means fewer cancellations, fewer ‘ghost buses’, shorter gaps between buses, fewer full busses, fewer late busses. You don’t need planning permission, you don’t need to have started 20 years ago, you don’t need to change the routes. Add more busses and get the current schedules working, it’d fix a lot of people’s problems quickly and the cost would be measured in bike shelters, not children’s hospitals.
You’ll get one attitude on here, you’ll get a very different one IRL.
We’ll bend over backwards to “fix” transportation in Dublin, except actually building infrastructure to fix it… truly amazing!
Ban bus lanes and turn the M50 into a 20 lane cycle track.
Each of us should have our own individual dedicated lane; make the roads a mile wide!
Yes. Long past the time for this “trial” to end.
Or at very least we need to trial the reverse.
Wow, Ireland never changes. Everyone and their dog will be whining, complaining, and crying but nothing ever changes.
Build the fecking infrastructure, morons!
I would miss them bullying their way out into our peasant lane in order to get around a bus stopped at the bus stops that unfortunately come with bus lanes.
You know how fun it is when they just about lash on the indicator and force you to swerve so they can get around the bus and continue to enjoy that sweet sweet traffic free bus lane.