Why is there no appetite to design Corks bus lane network with a dedicated single bus lane down the centre of our roads, even its on our arterial routes around the city that can handle design??
I have always found it ridiculously strange that engineers are dead set on sticking a bus lane up against foot paths in each direction.
I mean, you could then have decent stops along the line in a raised pedestrian platform which would allow easy ingress of passengers of all ilks. The bus lane would be completely segregated from the cars to a degree (i guess you would still need access points along lane to allow cars mount the bus lane to pull into a house/driveway on the opposite side of the road).
To allow bi-directional flow of buses you could easily synchronise buses and have automation control so that only one bus is allowed on the lane at any time.
It would save all this hassle with taking peoples gardens with this bullshit notion of bus connects in Dublin and the nonsense on the Wilton Road.
I have always found it ridiculously strange that engineers are dead set on sticking a bus lane up against foot paths in each direction.
I mean, you could then have decent stops along the line in a raised pedestrian platform which would allow easy ingress of passengers of all ilks. The bus lane would be completely segregated from the cars to a degree (i guess you would still need access points along lane to allow cars mount the bus lane to pull into a house/driveway on the opposite side of the road).
To allow bi-directional flow of buses you could easily synchronise buses and have automation control so that only one bus is allowed on the lane at any time.
It would save all this hassle with taking peoples gardens with this bullshit notion of bus connects in Dublin and the nonsense on the Wilton Road.