fantasy cycling infrastructure upgrades

Giant fans down the sides of every street so there's always a tailwind.

I thought this thread was to do with the velogames fantasy cycling competition.

20m wide one way cycle paths with direct tunnels I.e. no diversions or having to manoeuvre past exits along the N3 and N4.

The idea being to open up the suburbs and satellites fir mass commuter cycling.

Maybe a 20 km long ramp rising up to about 1000 m with loads of long sweeping sections and a few tough +10% segments and a cafe at the top and a CRC / Wiggle outlet at the bottom. It is fantasy, right....

Contra-flow cycle lanes on every one-way street.

A better education of the rules of the road for motorists, cyclists and an Gardaí alike.

But more realistically, some better routes through the city to get me out of, and around it. Nothing as depressing as mapping a route through the suburbs of Blanch, Tallaght or Finglas to get to the real stuff!

Transport:
really good design guidance, with teeth (legislation) to ensure:
1) that the manual has to be followed to the letter for all new projects (no compliance, no funding)
2) that old stuff has to be torn up and replaced with something better if it falls not just below the current minimum standards for new stuff, but also below the minimum standards for old stuff (which would be set lower, but high enough for only stuff which is genuinely useful to survive)

If any infra below minimum standards was basically illegal and had pretty much the same status as a building without planning permission, a lot of individual issues would eventually resolve work themselves out...kissing gates to ploughshares and all that

Sort out the quality control and we'll eventually get quality.

Tourism:
A child-friendly source-to-sea Shannon route that's all on cycle paths, or on country lanes where access is pretty much restricted to the odd tractor. With playgrounds and picnic tables and some bike ferries over the Shannon.
Cycle paths along river valleys in general - not just on railway alignments and canal towpaths where it's cheap to put them in. We build motorways across forests and fields and national monuments...

And for adult cyclists and older children who don't mind mixing with bit of motor traffic as long as the drivers are sane and the speed limits appropriate: a 3000 km bike route version of the Wild Atlantic Way, and an inland network of designated and signposted bike routes where drivers are alerted to the fact that they're on bike routes (preferably not all called "Route 1", "Route 2" and "Route 3", but something more exciting.) And signposted in both directions, not just one.

ror_74 wrote: »

People friendly speed limits in urban areas.

Related to that, the thing I'd like to see is a cheap version of the technology Google obviously already has to make cars "aware" of the speed limit of the road they're currently on, and then use it to make it impossible for the driver to exceed that speed.

Perhaps for emergency purposes (such as, I don't know, being chased by the Bilderberg Group?), you would be allowed to exceed speed limits three times a month.

Now I think about it, Jon Ronson was pursued by agents of the Bilderberg Group at a very leisurely pace, so there's no reason for exemptions for investigative journalists peering into the secretive world of global power brokers.

All triggered traffic lights should be sensitive to bikes, even lightweight carbon frames.