Checking Dublin's Traffic Problems
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TN setting up the traffic engineering department, CIE Dublin Services were among the pioneers of city bus operators in Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. J. F. Higgins, Coras Iornpair Eireann Dublin city manager, told the Institute of Transport (Northern Ireland section) this at its meeting in Belfast last week.
The department's first year working had been very satisfactory. Their main scope was to make scientific surveys of existing routes to ensure that services were commensurate with demands, to devise routes in accordance with developments and public requirements, and to keep traffic movement and development in the city under constant review.
Thus changes could be made to meet new traffic situations and professionally competent backing could be provided when suggestions were made to the relevant traffic authority.
Substantial improvement had been made during the year in peak traffic capacity, and the number of buses in operation for the complete Dublin City Services during the peak period this month was 4 per cent greater than in January, 1965.
Dublin City buses carried 750,000 passengers a day and with a view to the easing of road congestion there would appear to be a strong case for them being granted privileged treatment.
The main needs were preference at intersection and bus freeways, or reserved portions of carriageway. If these requirements were granted in conjunction with extension of one-way-street systems, clearways to suit traffic flows at peak hours and phased traffic control at intersections, great progress towards the solution of the city's traffic problem would be made at minimum cost to the ratepayer.