Cycling from Merrion gates area to Lucan

Idioteque

Howdy,

I'm looking to cycle to Lucan either later today or tomorrow from Merrion gates area (near st Vincents hosp.) I've seen the old posts and just wanted to see if anyone has any up to date info on using the grand canal way cycle track out to Adamstown?
Is the below still accurate or is it alright to cycle on now? (post below from 2010). If not, I might try some of the route others have suggested before.

Thanks

Quote:
Originally Posted by dogmatix
A local resident was mugged with a knife, a few stonings, and I nearly rammed (accidentally) a huge Rottweiler a few days ago (of course the skangers who owned it had it neither muzzeled or on a lead). I've also encountered scrambler bikes, ponies and ponies and traps - the very things I assumed the gates would prevent.

The new path and the weather has brought the skangers out onto the canal in significant numbers - and it appears that the CCTV are not having much of a deterrent. I'm hoping that it is still early days yet and things will settle down in a few weeks/months but I suspect (and hope I am wrong) that no one will be bothered monitoring the CCTV cameras to prevent anti-social activity.
What you will probably find is that this type of anti-social behaviour has always been going on but that you never went down by the canal to see it.

Hopefully they will be driven out and go somewhere else.

G rock

How about up to kilmainham, islandbridge, chapelizod, up knockmaroon hill, down by strawberry beds and along the liffey to lucan?

Nice wee road along there

conor1979

I cycled it last bank holiday monday and there was very few people on it.
A lot of broken glass around some of the benches but other than that it was fine.