commute suggestions - glasnevin to leopardstown

magicbastarder

anyone else here doing a commute similar to the above, and if so, what route have you found works best?

i'm near DCU, and was considering that griffith avenue - east link - merrion gates - rock road - newtownpark avenue might be a way of skirting the city centre (with a decent climb at the end), but was wondering if there was an alternate route which is better?
i've heard enough bad things about the N11 to warrant avoiding it.

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magicbastarder wrote: »

anyone else here doing a commute similar to the above, and if so, what route have you found works best?

i'm near DCU, and was considering that griffith avenue - east link - merrion gates - rock road - newtownpark avenue might be a way of skirting the city centre (with a decent climb at the end), but was wondering if there was an alternate route which is better?
i've heard enough bad things about the N11 to warrant avoiding it.

Go up by Vincents hospital onto the n11 cycle path.I'd consider the rock road a worse option than the n11

magicbastarder

cheers; another option i was considering was crossing the N11 at donnybrook, up beaver row and heading up through clonskeagh.

C3PO

Camdyn Gorgeous Rump wrote: »

Go up by Vincents hospital onto the n11 cycle path.I'd consider the rock road a worse option than the n11

Really depends on whether you're prepared to cycle on the N11 cycle path - personally I take the Rock Road option rather than that! The Rock Road is fine with the exception of the bit from Booterstown Avenue to the Blackrock Clinic where you need to move out to the edge of the Bus Lane!

PaulieC

Both routes are fine. I take either/or every morning. Booterstown Avenue is the quickest route off the Rock Road if you come that way.

CapnHex

Over the East Link onto Thorncastle St, (along the dodder) Fitzwilliam Quay, cycle track beside Aviva, cycle track up to Ballsbridge, cross over to cycle track alongside Herbert Park to Donnybrook, Eglington Rd (or little path along Dodder up to Ashtons), Clonskea Road up to Benildus Avenue, and on to Leopardstown. Not a fast route, but you'll get to see swans, ducks, herons on the Dodder etc... instead of buses, taxis, irate pedestrians on the N11.

Macy0161

magicbastarder wrote: »

cheers; another option i was considering was crossing the N11 at donnybrook, up beaver row and heading up through clonskeagh.

Beaver row, particularly along the cottages, is dodgy enough to cycle tbh (in either direction).

Alternatives might be to cut through UCD to the Goatstown Road - the road opposite Nutley Lane has a pedestrian/ cycle entrance to UCD, or to cut across through Donnybrook (up by Herbert Park and then across to the Clonskeagh Road). Pretty much what CapnHex suggested, but I didn't read until I posted!

Bloggsie

CapnHex wrote: »

Over the East Link onto Thorncastle St, (along the dodder) Fitzwilliam Quay, cycle track beside Aviva, cycle track up to Ballsbridge, cross over to cycle track alongside Herbert Park to Donnybrook, Eglington Rd (or little path along Dodder up to Ashtons), Clonskea Road up to Benildus Avenue, and on to Leopardstown. Not a fast route, but you'll get to see swans, ducks, herons on the Dodder etc... instead of buses, taxis, irate pedestrians on the N11.

once you dont come across irate ducks, swans and herons, nothing worse than a narkey duck or a swan with an attitude!

magicbastarder

i've said many times that a cycle path along the M50 would have been great. or the one they briefly considered alongside the green line luas...

DominoDub

C3PO wrote: »

Booterstown Avenue to the Blackrock Clinic where you need to move out to the edge of the Bus Lane!

I imagine cycle paths like that section like a "Pave Section" from Paris-Roubaix gives one a good old Rattle !

ted1

C3PO wrote: »

Really depends on whether you're prepared to cycle on the N11 cycle path - personally I take the Rock Road option rather than that! The Rock Road is fine with the exception of the bit from Booterstown Avenue to the Blackrock Clinic where you need to move out to the edge of the Bus Lane!

I much prefer the N11 for going in. The bike lane is awful and then once you get to Merton shopping centre your left over taking loads of other cyclists, the pace is much slower than the N11

ted1

magicbastarder wrote: »

i've said many times that a cycle path along the M50 would have been great. or the one they briefly considered alongside the green line luas...

The green line was never an option , it uses the old harcourt line and the Space could never have allowed them add cycle lane beside it

magicbastarder

i read here a few years ago that there originally was a plan to run a cycle track along the side, abandoned for cost reasons i think. would have been interesting to see how they planned to handle the viaduct over the dodder.