Turning right across a cycle lane?

Snickers Man

This morning I was driving down Herbert Place heading north-east with the new cycle lane to my right. At the traffic lights at Hubband Bridge I stopped on the red and indicated to turn right over the bridge. This is a right turn I have been making for about 16 years.

An old biddy in the car behind me starting tooting at me and shaking her head, suggesting that I could not turn right there. I ignored her.

As she overtook me on the left she again shook her head and gestured that I should not be doing what I was doing. I got so angry with her that I made the right turn, turned left on to Percy Place went down to the next bridge and doubled back to see if there was indeed a new No Right Turn sign for traffic travelling north-east on Herbert Place. There is not.

The road marking however does only indicate a straight ahead path. Is there some special new law for that cycle lane which means that you can't turn right over it, and which makes a standard No Right Turn sign superfluous?

A bit like the law, which I learned the hard way, that you cannot park on a road with a single white line running down the middle of it. There is no need to paint yellow lines along the side of such a road to prohibit parking. The single white line suffices.

Bazzer2

What sort of green light appears on the traffic lights? Is it a full general green, or a filter arrow?

Snickers Man

Bazzer2 wrote: »

What sort of green light appears on the traffic lights? Is it a full general green, or a filter arrow?

Full on. No filter at all. There is a pedestrian light governing the cycle lane. I think.

AlekSmart

Snickers Man wrote: »

A bit like the law, which I learned the hard way, that you cannot park on a road with a single white line running down the middle of it. There is no need to paint yellow lines along the side of such a road to prohibit parking. The single white line suffices.

Crikey Snickers Man...may I cut and paste your post and stick it on the City Managers and the Garda Commissioners foreheads ?

Cos,there's obviously a special dispensation available for well-connected folk eatin n drinkin in Ranelagh Village....Bring a camera and monitor the Village outbound from Chelmsford Road any evening ....;)

Snickers Man

AlekSmart wrote: »

Crikey Snickers Man...may I cut and paste your post and stick it on the City Managers and the Garda Commissioners foreheads ?

Certainly not! Use a hammer and nine inch nail like any sensible person.

LXFlyer

Snickers Man wrote: »

A bit like the law, which I learned the hard way, that you cannot park on a road with a single white line running down the middle of it. There is no need to paint yellow lines along the side of such a road to prohibit parking. The single white line suffices.

I wish more were like you - watch in Rathmines on Lower Rathmines Road north of Charleston Road just after 7pm and see how many people observe that.

Snickers Man

lxflyer wrote: »

I wish more were like you - watch in Rathmines on Lower Rathmines Road north of Charleston Road just after 7pm and see how many people observe that.

Well to be fair I didn't know about that law until I got a ticket for it and queried why I had been nicked for parking on a street with no specific restriction signs.

Now back to the OP: is there something about those cycle lanes that we need to know about? Or is it just a case that I came across a cranky old Mrs Brady who thinks she knows the rules but doesn't really?

bigar

I know where you mean and I go right there as well and you are allowed to. The old "lady" probably was annoyed about something else, perhaps you did no move forward fast or far enough to lett her pass. I always ignore people tooting at me or anyone else.

-Chris-

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