Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Justin Time on May 30, 2022, 09:41:41 pm
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Heard Cllr Janet Horner on the radio this morning calling for taxis to be removed from bus lanes as the "experiment" which began in 1984 has run its course.
"Theres now 20,000 taxi in Dublin and they are clogging up the bus lanes".
Also,"traffic is moving more freely now since taxis are not allowed use the bus lane in early morning on College St-Trinity College- College Green" , She provided no evidence for this.
So there you have it, the Greens (who else) want to get rid of taxis in bus lanes.
They got their bike lanes, pedestrianisation of Capel St and now want to get us out of taxi lanes.
Remember them come the next election
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buses are clogging up the bus lanes as well.
dopey cow.
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Sure as far as they're concerned we're not part of the transport network...but will complain there isn't enough taxis to get Simone and Tristan home the moment they step out of gay Spar!!
Passengers rely on taxis to get them from A to B in early morning traffic and they(we) don't clog up bus lanes,they only thing that clogs up bus lanes are buses due to bad management of time schedules,College green is a mess because 3 or 4 buses on any street causes chaos,I counted 10 buses one morning running through D'olier St onto College St,ridiculous planning but ye won't see Horney Janet putting it up to the unions of Dublin Bus.
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Sure as far as they're concerned we're not part of the transport network...but will complain there isn't enough taxis to get Simone and Tristan home the moment they step out of gay Spar!!
Passengers rely on taxis to get them from A to B in early morning traffic and they(we) don't clog up bus lanes,they only thing that clogs up bus lanes are buses due to bad management of time schedules,College green is a mess because 3 or 4 buses on any street causes chaos,I counted 10 buses one morning running through D'olier St onto College St,ridiculous planning but ye won't see Horney Janet putting it up to the unions of Dublin Bus.
She did actually say that she didnt believe that taxis were NOT part of the public transportation system
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The Greens will get another kickin next election but the damage they've done and will do before that kickin will be enormous and ten after the next election they'll be back in!!
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Just ignore it .How would they police it .There is no law against breaking down .Just stop the car lift the bonnett snarl the whole town up .I was in the City center last Friday about 5Pm and the Lights on O connell bridge changed 3 times before I could get across as the Luas was blocking the Bridge as it is to long .Cars in the Yellow box on the North Side of the river prevented the Luas from moving forward when the lights changed for it .The biggest hindrence to Dublin traffic is the Luas .
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Restricting access to hired taxis could be a sensible compromise.
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That makes no sense really,there could be someone a little bit down the road with filthy cash in one hand and the other one just waiting to flag down an empty...which there wouldn't be...in a bus lane,and with thousands if not millions of people waiting in the city centre for that elusive empty that's sitting in traffic on any street or road with a bus lane and stuck in shite traffic!!
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Heard Cllr Janet Horner on the radio this morning calling for taxis to be removed from bus lanes as the "experiment" which began in 1984 has run its course.
"Theres now 20,000 taxi in Dublin and they are clogging up the bus lanes".
Well, there's only 10,001 PSVs (https://www.nationaltransport.ie/taxi/statistics-and-legislation/vehicle-licences-county-and-category/) in Dublin for a start! Putting us out of the bus lanes would shut down 90% of our industry.
A large part of the 'College Green' problem is that Dublin Bus for whatever reason seems to run its entire fleet through that narrow corridor. Just stand on O'Connell St bridge at 9am on a weekday and watch the backlog of buses from O'Connell St over the bridge & down D'Olier St.
And there's only a handful of bridges to get across the Liffey so we're restricted in how we deliver our passengers where they want to go. Shutting Capel St to traffic so a few dozen people can drink coffee in the open air seems stupid IMHO.
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The same Greens that pushed for Capel St to be closed!!
How do these fuktards get to where they are....the mind boggles!!
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The same Greens that pushed for Capel St to be closed!!
How do these fuktards get to where they are....the mind boggles!!
Hal they get elected .When I suggested we try the Greens had ONE Dublin City Councillor the Multi millionaire Mr Cuffe and one TD Mr Ryan .I have a mate who is a City Councillor says Deliveroo and Uber eats are lobbying for those bike bollards to keep their drivers safe when they have a heavy backpack ans wobble under the weight .The Capel Street thing is to create a Gay Friendly out door space as we enjoy a lot of Gay tourists and they are trying to regenerate the northside into the Northbank from Capel to O Connell .
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The same Greens that pushed for Capel St to be closed!!
How do these fuktards get to where they are....the mind boggles!!
Hal they get elected .When I suggested we try the Greens had ONE Dublin City Councillor the Multi millionaire Mr Cuffe and one TD Mr Ryan .I have a mate who is a City Councillor says Deliveroo and Uber eats are lobbying for those bike bollards to keep their drivers safe when they have a heavy backpack ans wobble under the weight .The Capel Street thing is to create a Gay Friendly out door space as we enjoy a lot of Gay tourists and they are trying to regenerate the northside into the Northbank from Capel to O Connell .
As distinct from Bertie Ahern's West Bank.
"Bertie is the leader of our bloody country," said another. "He should be able to speak and spell correctly." Others said the blatant faux pas was an indicator of "what wasters we have supposedly running our country". Bertie once famously expressed concern about upsetting 'the apple tart'. He has described Dublin's Temple Bar as 'Dublin's West Bank'. He has cautioned people about 'throwing white elephants and red herrings at each other'. 8)
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Heard Cllr Janet Horner on the radio this morning calling for taxis to be removed from bus lanes as the "experiment" which began in 1984 has run its course.
"Theres now 20,000 taxi in Dublin and they are clogging up the bus lanes".
Also,"traffic is moving more freely now since taxis are not allowed use the bus lane in early morning on College St-Trinity College- College Green" , She provided no evidence for this.
So there you have it, the Greens (who else) want to get rid of taxis in bus lanes.
They got their bike lanes, pedestrianisation of Capel St and now want to get us out of taxi lanes.
Remember them come the next election
Relax lads ! It's hearsay on the radio with some politician looking to make a name fer herself with yet another 'Snowflake' agenda, it's already forgotten !
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If we get put in the regular lanes the traffic gets much much worse for the other motorists.There's a lot of shite on the radio these days. Too many stations with very little decent content between them.I don't bother listening to any of the current affairs outlets as they just rotate the shit stories between them all day.Some competing stations are owned by the same company.
There was some worker form the journal.ie complaining on newstalk radio that she doesn't feel safe in Dublin and complaining that she can't find a taxi to arrive at her feet at short notice.Even using the Aishling Murphy murder as a reason for more taxis.What a load of bollox.
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She doesn't hate taxis .....she hates taxi drivers ....cause ther all blokes
Know your nut job
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That makes no sense really,there could be someone a little bit down the road with filthy cash in one hand and the other one just waiting to flag down an empty...which there wouldn't be...in a bus lane,and with thousands if not millions of people waiting in the city centre for that elusive empty that's sitting in traffic on any street or road with a bus lane and stuck in shite traffic!!
Arguably, it may encourage drivers of vacant vehicles to drive towards the higher volumes of work i.e. against the heavier traffic flows and/or encourage greater efficiency in occupation rates by encouraging drivers to seek out / accept work within geographical areas and/or from dispatch services they might otherwise ignore.
Moreover, notwithstanding supply constraints, freeing up bus lanes for buses ought to encourage greater utilisation of those services which may help reduce demand for taxis thereby tackling the current perceived shortage without adding any more cars to the fleet.
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The same Greens that pushed for Capel St to be closed!!
How do these fuktards get to where they are....the mind boggles!!
The same Greens who are giving us up to €25,000 to upgrade our cars. Yeah... fuck them, they can shove their bleedin' money up their compost heaps.
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The same Greens that pushed for Capel St to be closed!!
How do these fuktards get to where they are....the mind boggles!!
The same Greens who are giving us up to €25,000 to upgrade our cars. Yeah... fuck them, they can shove their bleedin' money up their compost heaps.
As far as the grants go....we deserve nothing less...closing streets and pushing traffic to already heavily congested streets is madness.
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There's method in the madness, though. Getting folk to use more sustainable transport options requires some use of the stick as well as the carrot. Of course, providing the sustainable alternatives - rickshaws, electric bicycles/scooters, more trains/buses/trams/taxis/hackneys, etc - is another prerequisite.
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If they have of(sic) waited till this year to do their pedestrianisation survey and not last year when there was fukall traffic on the streets then maybe a different outcome.