One would hope that this might prompt the sort of review of routes that's really required. But I doubt it will.
Before BAC criticise the rerouting required by Luas works, but how many city centre streets do they tie up parking out of service busses?
I don't know if this comes from BAC or not, but this morning's Herald AM declared that over 30 bus stops would be moved "out of the city centre". I don't dispute that some intelligent rerouting will be required, but why should there be a need to move routes out of the city centre?
Personally I think the idea of terminating busses in the city centre is an outragous idea, and if all southside busses were twinned with a northside route and ran through the centre it would free up a lot of street space for busses to run more smoothly. But that's an argument for another day.
I can envision a scenario where a temporary rerouting becomes permanent when it works better than the original, like Stephen's Green.
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