Sir, – How curious it is that bus lanes are generally open to all traffic up to 7am and after 7pm when there is no pressing need for them to be and then, just when they could serve to aid traffic flow and dissipate jams, they are closed during rush hours to enable a very few quite empty duos and trios of buses to wheel past while tailbacks of workers’ cars reach back for miles?
As the first green shoots of economic recovery appear, would it be possible to measure the impact of suspending scarcely used bus lanes for a few months and allowing rush hour traffic the full road space to flow more quickly? Surely it is in everyone’s interest to make unnecessary traffic jams disappear? Yours, etc,
SHANE O’DOHERTY,
Hollybrook Road,
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Clontarf,
Dublin 3