Dublin Bus says new LUAS line could hamper services

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Originally Posted by lostcarpark

Before BAC criticise the rerouting required by Luas works, but how many city centre streets do they tie up parking out of service busses?

Since DoT won't pay for a city centre bus depot, there's not much DB can do about this. The station at Jervis st might go some small way to alleviating that.

Originally Posted by lostcarpark

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.

Wouldn't that mean that the buses would become a lot more unpredictable as traffic one side of the city delays an incoming bus? If we had proper bus lanes and bus priority junctions, it wouldn't be an issue.