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garrettod
Guest
A Waste of limited & costly resources !
Hi,
I cannot believe the amount of staff time that has been wasted over recent years, due to various Gardai "protecting" the bus lanes.
This is a stupid situation.
We started off with a load of bus lanes, half of which are not being used efficiently due to the lack of busses available in Dublin - what a waste ! These bus lanes replaced valuable road space, a limited resource in Dublin & some other cities.
Drivers decided they were paying more than enough in tax to justify using these empty parts of their roads, so they began to drive in the empty bus lanes, in order to get to their destination faster (no doubt, this often contributed positively to recent years growth, in the Irish economy).
Then our wonderful decision makers concluded that this was a terrible crime and should be punished so what do they do - they go and waste another valuable resource, by placing Gardai on watch at various bus lanes, to ensure they remain empty .... in the hopes of a bus driving down one of them, no doubt.
So, as a result of our wonderful decision makers, we have:
- less available road space & limited opportunity to develope more within the cities
- more traffic congestion due to less road space
- more empty bus lanes to frustrate private motorists tryijng to progress in traffic, but unable to due to traffic congestion
- less available Gardai to help protect us from serious crime, due to the fact that they are protecting the empty bus lanes
- more frustrated Gardai as a result of them being assigned to protecting the bus lanes !
What a waste of money !
.... but thankfully, our expert decision makers then came up with two further ideas to help make this country great:
- an underground tunnel which is too small to permit larger trucks to pass through it (despite the fact that these larger trucks will be the way of the future and are quickly being adopted by various UK comanies - our prinicpal trading partner !)
- a LUAS system that could take up further valuable road space in the capital city, cost an absolute fortune to construct given no fixed price contracts from day 1, a lovely modern replacement for something that was removed from our capital city only a few decades ago and last but not least ... a tram system build in irregular size tracks, so as to ensure that any future carraiges would have to be acquired from a limited number of manufacturers at no doubt, additional expense (our rails are apparently slightly narrower than most other tram systems in Europe & the Western World !)
It's great to see our hard earned taxes are being put to good use !
Regards
G>
Hi,
I cannot believe the amount of staff time that has been wasted over recent years, due to various Gardai "protecting" the bus lanes.
This is a stupid situation.
We started off with a load of bus lanes, half of which are not being used efficiently due to the lack of busses available in Dublin - what a waste ! These bus lanes replaced valuable road space, a limited resource in Dublin & some other cities.
Drivers decided they were paying more than enough in tax to justify using these empty parts of their roads, so they began to drive in the empty bus lanes, in order to get to their destination faster (no doubt, this often contributed positively to recent years growth, in the Irish economy).
Then our wonderful decision makers concluded that this was a terrible crime and should be punished so what do they do - they go and waste another valuable resource, by placing Gardai on watch at various bus lanes, to ensure they remain empty .... in the hopes of a bus driving down one of them, no doubt.
So, as a result of our wonderful decision makers, we have:
- less available road space & limited opportunity to develope more within the cities
- more traffic congestion due to less road space
- more empty bus lanes to frustrate private motorists tryijng to progress in traffic, but unable to due to traffic congestion
- less available Gardai to help protect us from serious crime, due to the fact that they are protecting the empty bus lanes
- more frustrated Gardai as a result of them being assigned to protecting the bus lanes !
What a waste of money !
.... but thankfully, our expert decision makers then came up with two further ideas to help make this country great:
- an underground tunnel which is too small to permit larger trucks to pass through it (despite the fact that these larger trucks will be the way of the future and are quickly being adopted by various UK comanies - our prinicpal trading partner !)
- a LUAS system that could take up further valuable road space in the capital city, cost an absolute fortune to construct given no fixed price contracts from day 1, a lovely modern replacement for something that was removed from our capital city only a few decades ago and last but not least ... a tram system build in irregular size tracks, so as to ensure that any future carraiges would have to be acquired from a limited number of manufacturers at no doubt, additional expense (our rails are apparently slightly narrower than most other tram systems in Europe & the Western World !)
It's great to see our hard earned taxes are being put to good use !
Regards
G>