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Cycling Celbridge

  • 16-08-2011 11:58am
    #1
    Iwannahurl
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    I'm looking for some local knowledge, direct personal experience or informed opinion here.

    This is, I think, a gyratory in Celbridge.

    What is it like negotiating this junction on a bike, compared to this large junction in the Netherlands for example?

    Any other cycling-related comments on this Irish junction, which I am led to believe is state-of-the-art for cyclists in Ireland? I presume that legal, infrastructural and cultural matters are all relevant.


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  • #2
    kenmc
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    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    I'm looking for some local knowledge, direct personal experience or informed opinion here.

    This is, I think, a gyratory in Celbridge.

    What is it like negotiating this junction on a bike, compared to this large junction in the Netherlands for example?

    Any other cycling-related comments on this Irish junction, which I am led to believe is state-of-the-art for cyclists in Ireland? I presume that legal, infrastructural and cultural matters are all relevant.
    eh..... it's a motorway flyover roundabout thingy. You cycle around it, just like the cars drive around. Same as any other roundabout 'cept this one has a hole in the middle!


  • #3
    seamus
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    It's not Friday. I don't understand what's going on here.


  • #4
    Idleater
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    I'm going to guess that the OP is trying to compare the cycle lane facilities on our roundabout to those on a similarly large roundabout in NL.

    My answer to that is that they appear quite similar in terms of segregating the cycle lane out of the way to "cross" the on/offramp. One difference is in the demarcation of the "crossing" (cycling/footpad:pac:) traffic. In NL this traffic gets the zebra crossing and ramp to highlight this traffic.

    The other difference is that it is probably safer and easier to use the road "as normal" here than it is to use the cycling infrastructure in NL where the road traffic tends to go around and cycling goes through.


  • #5
    galwaycyclist
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    OK they are not equvalent junctions as the Irish one is a rural motorway junction and the Dutch one is an urban roundabout.

    Also the Dutch cyclists have roads dedicated to cyclists that run parallel to the other roads and are catered for at the junctions. The Irish treatment is a red-painted "footway" at the road edge.

    So rather than being cycling facilities the Irish version is a motoring facility


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