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[Article] Cycle Lanes "more dangerous than busy roads"

DeepBlue · 2009-12-13 16:21:17

Click on image for bigger version......... An article from today's Sunday Tribune. Probably nothing in it that most cycle lane users don't know already but I thought the comment about urban planners being forced to use guidelines originally drafted in 1997 was bizarre. Why can't they update the guidelines?

13-12-2009 4:21pm

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Click on image for bigger version.........

An article from today's Sunday Tribune.
Probably nothing in it that most cycle lane users don't know already but I thought the comment about urban planners being forced to use guidelines originally drafted in 1997 was bizarre. Why can't they update the guidelines?

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#2 13-12-2009 7:00pm

Charlie Stick

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Here's the link:

http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2009/dec/13/cycle-lanes-more-dangerous-than-busy-roads/

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#3 13-12-2009 10:58pm

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DeepBlue wrote: »

Why can't they update the guidelines?

They are doing so. See here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63455741#post63455741

I have not viewed all the documents yet, but what is needed is minimal legal standards (like housing standards etc), and that does not seem to be happening.

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#4 13-12-2009 11:05pm

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Anyone seen the works they have done on the Rock road recently? It's a bit like the first photo: the tarmac from the footpath flows onto the road, creating a nasty surface where it flows over the cycle lane, not nice at all.

And the recent pipe laying on the N11 near Oatlands college has destroyed the cycle route, lots of unpressed tarmac, like one big gravel trap.

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#5 14-12-2009 6:45pm

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I complained to DLR county council about the finish on works done to the cycle lane in Shankill after pipe laying. It's like riding across rumble strips.

I tried to contact the roads dept but was ignored. I contacted local councilors and at least got a reply, all they were told was "yes that piece of work is finished". Looks like the council don't care and don't want to listen.

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#6 14-12-2009 6:58pm

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take pictures and send them.

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#7 14-12-2009 8:40pm

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Crash and sue them...

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#8 14-12-2009 10:34pm

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IF you do take photographs of any crap Irish cycle lanes please add them to the flickr.com group or send them to me so I can add them -- details of Documenting Irish Cycle Lanes here. Thanks.

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