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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 13, 2014

QUESTION NO. 17

QUESTION: Councillor E. O'Brien

To ask the Chief Executive to detail the number (if any) of Quality Bus Corridors marked on roads within the county which are currently not in use?

REPLY:

Bus corridors are provided  to improve the public transport provision in congested locations particularly at peak times.

All of the bus corridors in the County are in use by public transport providers to varying degrees. The corridors are used by both public and private bus operators as well as Taxi's, hackneys and cyclists.  The busiest corridor is on the Lucan by pass and one of the lesser used ones is along the Grange Castle Road between the Naas Road and Adamstown roundabout, however the traffic flow here is such that there is no interference with traffic and would have been required as a hard shoulder in any event for this busy dualcarriageway.