New DTO website

Victor

http://www.dto.ie/

music-detected

http://www.dto.ie/web2006/station_maps.html

cyclopath2001

Victor wrote:

http://www.dto.ie/

I tried searching (using the search box) for the following & got nothing:

cycle tracks
cycle track
cycle network
strategic cycle network

The term 'cycling' produced the 'journey planner' (which does not indicate approved cycle tracks) and the 'Green-Schools Travel – DTO Safer Routes to School' document.

I think we can take it that the DTO is, in reality, no longer promoting cycling as a means of commuting in Dublin.

Winters

The DTO is winding down. All they really have now is their traffic and demand model. The RPA are the talkers, the people with money behind them that are willing to make things happen.

MarkoP11

Dublin Transport Authority will finally kill the DTO, after all the DTO was the offspring of the first attempt at a DTA.

DTO are great at talking but have done nothing really visable, the traffic model is great but its not well known to the public

cyclopath2001

MarkoP11 wrote:

DTO are great at talking but have done nothing really visable,

They were responsible for instituting the notorious cycle-lane regulations of 1997/1998 which effectively made nonsense of all cycle facilities.

Hotblack Desiato

They've also vehemently opposed motorbikes in buslanes (and motorcycles in general) in spite of the fact that the ELECTED body responsible for Dublin, the City Council, is supportive of motorcycling.

The very limited use of buslanes by bikes in Dublin (Dame St. right turn, Dawson St. left turn, North Frederick St.) was pushed through by the city council in the face of DTO opposition.

Goodbye and good riddance.

spacetweek

ninja900 wrote:

The very limited use of buslanes by bikes in Dublin (Dame St. right turn, Dawson St. left turn, North Frederick St.) was pushed through by the city council in the face of DTO opposition.

Are bicycles not allowed in buslanes?? Whoops I've been breaking the law for years in that case.

murphaph

spacetweek wrote:

Are bicycles not allowed in buslanes?? Whoops I've been breaking the law for years in that case.

I'm pretty sure Ninja was refering to motorbikes.

Hotblack Desiato

ninja900 wrote:

motorbikes

:rolleyes:

dmeehan

in germany cyclists cant use bus lanes:
i was on a bus in trier once and the bus driver went off on one when a cyclist was in the bus lane in front of him

(he then appologised for being late, by only 2mins :rolleyes: )

John R

dmeehan wrote:

in germany cyclists cant use bus lanes:

Of course they are not. Mixing the smallest, most easily unseen and most vulnerable road users in the same lane with 20 tonnes of metal that is constantly stopping/starting is the height of stupidity and recklesness. I'd be stunned if the Germans ever considered doing it.

It's only done here because cycle lanes are mostly token efforts to allow some civil servant to write a report to Europe showing how great we are.

cyclopath2001

John R wrote:

Of course they are not. Mixing the smallest, most easily unseen and most vulnerable road users in the same lane with 20 tonnes of metal that is constantly stopping/starting is the height of stupidity and recklesness. I'd be stunned if the Germans ever considered doing it.

The PDs changed the regulations back in 1998 to allow cars & trucks to drive in cycle lanes.

It's probably their idea of open competition.

Victor

music-detected wrote:

http://www.dto.ie/web2006/station_maps.html

Strangely Connolly Stop is 3 minutes from itself http://www.dto.ie/web2006/images/connolly.pdf

music-detected

The maps says at the top that the walk times are from the DART platforms. They could easily be 3 minutes walk from the entrance to Connolly. Sometimes it takes longer if there is a queue to get out!