Bus lanes planned for Cork and Galway

BUS lanes are to be introduced in Cork and Galway over the next year in a nationwide expansion which will also see the number of lanes in Dublin double.

Cork will initially have two lanes, or quality bus corridors (QBCs), on the numbers 6 and 8 bus routes, and Galway will get one, but further expansion is planned and the scheme will eventually be extended to all cities.

The biggest expansion will be in Dublin where the number of QBCs will initially increase from nine to 18. With the cost of bus lanes averaging half a million euro per kilometre, the total expenditure will run to tens of millions of euro.