Glass on cycle lanes

How Soon Is Now

Just a heads up in case it's going on in your area too.

I've had a few other people mention they have come across this and two of us ended up with flat wheels.

I had the issue around Citywest / Tallaght. Dublin City Centre Lucan and Blanchardstown I've heard as well.

Absolute bastards!

whomitconcerns

What's going on in your area? Your saying someone is intentionally breaking glass and putting out one the cycle lanes?

Not sure what your suggesting?

How Soon Is Now

whomitconcerns wrote: »

What's going on in your area? Your saying someone is intentionally breaking glass and putting out one the cycle lanes?

Not sure what your suggesting?

Ya I think its been left there on purpose. Any time I've seen or heard about it its happening in an area where its gonna do damage.

Hasn't been one off either been going on a while. It was cleared away around the corner from me and is back again.

I'm only mentioning it in case others end up on wrong end of it like I have.

KevRossi

Schwalbe Marathon Plus is yer only man for cycling around our fair city.

Peregrinus

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

Ya I think its been left there on purpose. Any time I've seen or heard about it its happening in an area where its gonna do damage.

There's no area of a cycleway where glass fragments won't do damage.

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

Hasn't been one off either been going on a while. It was cleared away around the corner from me and is back again.

This is a perennial problem with cycleways. Roads that carry motor traffic are pretty effectively cleared of glass fragments and similar debris by the combined action of rain and car tyres - car tyres are designed to spray surface water sideways, which moves the debris as well. Unfortunately they tend to clear by shifting stuff to the margin of the road, which is where a lot of cycleways are.

Cycleways need to be kept clear by much more regular sweeping than roads generally require. Otherwise there's a fairly steady build-up of glass and other problematic debris.

ED E

KevRossi wrote: »

Schwalbe Marathon Plus is yer only man for cycling around our fair city.

Not in tallaght.


There's an issue with the off road cycle tracks that attract teens drinking. Decent tyres will get you through the first and second smashed Smirnoff bottle but by the 6th you're fooked.


Went through a period of new broken bottles near daily. Got better though. Report it to the SDCC roads section via fixyourstreet.

duffmann

Another reason why we need a glass bottle deposit scheme. I see our canal drinkers smashing bottles regularly as I cycle by. If they knew that the bottles were worth something, they might think twice.

buffalo

http://www.fixyourstreet.ie/ is good for reporting these for targetting by local council.