Gardaí crack down on motorists driving in Cork bus lane

Bus Éireann has been under fire for months over the unreliable bus service in Cork city 

There have been a raft of complaints about motorists driving in the bus lane in Coolroe,  Ballincollig, delaying buses on the busy 220 route. File picture: Eddie O'Hare

Gardaí mounted a targeted crackdown on motorists driving in Cork’s only 24-hour bus lane on Friday prompting calls for similar enforcement city-wide.

A member of the Cork City Divisional Roads Policing Unit mounted “a routine static patrol” in a key section of the 220’s city-bound bus lane at Coolroe, west of Ballincollig, during morning rush hour.