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Dublin may see contra-flow cyclists

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    #152
    blorg
    Registered Users Posts: 15,989 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    Saw this just now and thought it probably belonged here.

    http://dublincycling.com/node/613
    I find it difficult to accept that France are making wanton lawbreaking legal.


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    #153
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    What France seem to be doing is a national move? Also the planned Dublin contra flow lanes are mostly on streets that may be better with some type of segregation for contra flow.

    As I posted on the thread about cycling in Berlin, that city already allows this, on nearly all one-way street I noted anyway. And most back streets are 30km/h or as low as 10km/h:

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    And just in case anybody says that these would never work here etc, as Victor pointed out, contra flow without marking have already been in place for years, he pointed out the southside example, here's a northside one:

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    #154
    jaqian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭jaqian


    blorg wrote: »
    I find it difficult to accept that France are making wanton lawbreaking legal.

    We have it here too. The Royal Canal Bank in Phibsboro is one way but cyclists are allowed to go against traffic. No special cycle lane needed :)


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    #155
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,347 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    Dublin City Council is to draw up plans for "contra flow lanes" for cyclists, allowing them to travel in either direction on streets that are restricted to one-way for motor vehicles. l
    As if the roads aren't hazardous enough - now this.
    I can't wait.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    #156
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Hermy wrote: »
    As if the roads aren't hazardous enough - now this.
    I can't wait.

    Contra-flow already works with and without barriers in Dublin, Paris, Berlin, part of the US etc etc.
    jaqian wrote: »
    We have it here too. The Royal Canal Bank in Phibsboro is one way but cyclists are allowed to go against traffic. No special cycle lane needed :)

    That's pictured in my last photo in the post above yours.


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    #157
    jaqian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭jaqian


    monument wrote: »
    Contra-flow already works with and without barriers in Dublin, Paris, Berlin, part of the US etc etc.



    That's pictured in my last photo in the post above yours.

    Sorry about that. Didn't see it as Flickr (and most image host sites) are blocked by my job. :(


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    #158
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Also to add to this thread, there are at least 8 examples of contra-flow cycle lanes of different designs and distances already in the city.

    I've mapped the locations of some of them on this map in light blue (with other things). Also marked most of the proposed ones in darker blue.


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