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City Quay cycle lane reversed?

  • 19-06-2012 9:38pm
    #1
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,326 ✭✭✭✭


    this was a contra-flow lane allowing cyclists to go East->West along City Quay (though a lot of cyclists used it in the wrong direction anyway).

    I noticed this evening that they've repainted the markings on it (for cycle week?) and its now marked out to go West->East. Contra-flow lanes are dead useful, is this deliberate I wonder, or did the line painters screw up...?

    City Quay


Comments

  • #2
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Sounds like a mix up... Might be worth emailing the council traffic@dublincity.ie


  • #3
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Mentioned it to two city council engineers at the lunch time cycle -- they were not sure about it but at least one said they'd look at it on their way back to the office.

    209619.JPG


  • #4
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,326 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    monument wrote: »
    Mentioned it to two city council engineers at the lunch time cycle -- they were not sure about it but at least one said they'd look at it on their way back to the office.

    209619.JPG

    I emailed the traffic dept as suggested, they told me to contact the DDDA. No reply from them as yet.


  • #5
    Doctor Bob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Doctor Bob


    loyatemu wrote: »
    I emailed the traffic dept as suggested, they told me to contact the DDDA. No reply from them as yet.

    I'm not sure cycle track symbols would be a top priority down DDDA way these days.
    The authority is being wound up after a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General last month disclosed serious shortcomings in the IGB deal in 2007. The site was bought for €431 million by a consortium that included the authority, but is now valued at a little over one-tenth of that, at €45 million.
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0614/breaking45.html

    It's most likely a mix up, as monument says, but part of me wonders if it's related to the recent shenanigans on the Newtown Avenue contra-flow lane in Blackrock, where the arrows were made two-headed by some pranksters. Have they sprayed their talents further afield...? You could ask DLRCC if the handiwork in your photo looks familiar.

    Despite its flaws, this is (was?) a pretty useful cycle facility, but most the cycle infrastructure in the DDDA area needs another look. Maybe when DCC takes back responsibility for the area things will change. (That's assuming of course that they know the DDDA has been wound up in the first place... ;))


  • #6
    opti0nal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭opti0nal


    monument wrote: »
    Mentioned it to two city council engineers at the lunch time cycle -- they were not sure about it but at least one said they'd look at it on their way back to the office.
    The arrows are not markings defined in the regulations.

    The direction of the cycle track should be determined the the way the signs RUS009 or RUS009a are facing.


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