Clontarf to City Centre Cycle & Bus Priority Project discussion (renamed)

MJohnston

Are those slick paint surfaces that are likely to be super slippy when it rains?

Frank Bullitt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123736431#Comment_123736431

C'mon, you can see them a mile off.

Citizen Six

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123736315#Comment_123736315

While cars are more likely to not stop as the lights turn red, cyclists are more likely to cycle through a red light, at any point during the sequence.
You see it all the time there, when kids are trying to cross for the school.

cgcsb

I often see cars just go through in the middle of a red light sequence all the time. Particularly at lights that are just a crossing point rather than a road junction.

TaurenDruid

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123738479#Comment_123738479

And if it's just a 'yield' sign? Well, that's clearly invisible!

Thelonious Monk

https://streamable.com/exjxay

We spend all that money on roads and no ones even using them

Thelonious Monk

2 cars written off right outside entrance to Westwood. No one hurt it seems. It is a total disaster outside the gym every day.

Citizen Six

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123757069#Comment_123757069

It's really difficult getting out of Westwood. If you need to turn up Howth road, or u turn at the lights, it's always backed up trying to get across traffic to join the queue.

I spotted those flashing lights earlier, but didn't get close to them.

TherapyBoy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123757463#Comment_123757463

It’s much easier to get out & get where you need to go if you park in the other Westwood carpark (overflow carpark - free for all members) on the Clontarf side of the bridge beside the Dart station carpark. The entrance is about a 100 metre walk from the gym.

If you’re driving to the Westwood gym in Fairview FROM ANY DIRECTION you now have to drive past the entrance to this other ‘overflow’ carpark. Park in the overflow by the Dart station & you’ll even have more time, space & less stopped traffic to deal with when you’re exiting & it’ll be much easier to get where you need to go.

Anyone sitting in their cars outside Westwood gym queuing to park their car IN AN ACTIVE TRAFFIC LANE should have their car crushed & their license taken off them.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123757511#Comment_123757511

Any time I've driven there unless it's 6am I go to the overflow. It's baffling how people queue at rush hour to get into the main car park. Sat there for 20 mins looking at their phones. Like f**king Wall-E.

bbbbb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123757069#Comment_123757069

That picture is mad. Trying to figure out what happened; either the black car was going the wrong direction (highly unlikely) or was exiting the gym and spun 270 degrees when hit by the red car, but the speed limit should only be 50kph there?

loyatemu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123757511#Comment_123757511

and then what? Walk to the gym?! That's crazy talk!

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123757669#Comment_123757669

Made no sense to me either

TaurenDruid

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123757511#Comment_123757511

The entrance is about a 100 metre walk from the gym.

What, you expect people to walk so they can go do their exercise?! You monster! /s

A huge number of people are just selfish and lazy. Up my way, there's free on-street parking and a free car park that can be used by people using football pitches. Nope. 100m-200m is too far to walk. They park beside the pitches, and **** the cycle path and bus lane. Result? Several grand's worth of steel bollards put in, completely unnecessarily. Result? They park after the bollards instead. 50m is better than 100m, right? 🙄

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123758484#Comment_123758484

My own uneducated guess is that the red car was travelling from Clontarf and hit the FR corner of the grey car as it was leaving WW causing the grey one to spin. The red had enough momentum to keep going rather than stop and/or spin. I wonder was the red originally travelling in the bus lane and steered into the next lane or had it been there all along.
I'd also hazard a guess that the lad standing with the DFB crew is the driver of the red car.

I wonder if either had a dashcam but at a guess (which is probably incorrect), the red was possibly travelling too fast but the grey pulled out in front of moving traffic - something you'd see quite often there unfortunately.

Los Cafeteros

Quality parking spotted along the route today!

cgcsb

It must be a psychological problem

Ben D Bus

It should really be reported to GoCar with the date and time. It looks bad for them so maybe they'd have a word with whoever had that car at the time. Or maybe they wouldn't or maybe the driver wouldn't care anyway. But if nobody says anything then nobody thinks it's important.

loyatemu

………

Los Cafeteros

Fully agree. Took the snaps for purpose of emailing GoCar. Will let you know if any response.

TaurenDruid

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123761797#Comment_123761797

It should also be reported to the Gardaí, for that matter! Can be done online and illegal parking is one of the items listed in the dropdown. https://www.garda.ie/en/trafficwatchreport/

Up near the church opposite Donnycarney Shopping Centre, there are several big planters on the footpath now. Why? Because the footpath was being used by GoCar as their parking lot… 🙄

Ben D Bus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123764243#Comment_123764243

Yes. If the Gardai and the City Council take GoCar to task then maybe GoCar will do the same with their customers. My understanding is that the council has turned over parking spaces for club cars, and I've just realised they have free parking in pay-and-display spots, so DCC should be able to exert pressure on the operator.

https://help.gocar.ie/hc/en-us/articles/4412590163345-Does-My-GoCar-Have-Free-Parking

I think the council probably has more leverage than the Gardai are likely to apply! Might be worth sending the above to some of the better (and Greener) local councillors like Feljin Jose (that's his area?), Donna Cooney, Michael Pidgeon etc.

TaurenDruid

So I nearly became a statistic this morning. Cycling down the Malahide Road on my commute, entered the slip-lane that goes behind the bus stop at Fairview, an articulated lorry makes a left turn in front of me, crossing the cycle path, to head towards Clontarf. I break in time, but have to backpedal or would have gone under his rear wheel. He stopped for a break in traffic, so I asked him what he was at - got a shrug and "I didn't see you?"

bk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123765741#Comment_123765741

Yes, it is an incredibly dangerous spot. I hate even crossing it as a pedestrian!

I feel they should just close this slip and instead just make one of the two right turn lanes a left turn lane at the end of Malahide Road.

Jayuu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123766455#Comment_123766455

Agreed. That slip road is a disaster not just for cyclists and pedestrians, but it's also a complete pain for motorists who do want to head towards Clontarf because the slip road fills too easy due to the way the light sequencing is for the Howth and Malahide Roads is programmed.

I really think they should have looked at this when they were doing the redesign around the Malahide and Howth Road junctions.

Thelonious Monk

Reported this to council 6 months ago. Looks like it's permanent. After so much work how can they be allowed leave it like this? This really annoys me.

Citizen Six

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123793188#Comment_123793188

Did you contact any local councillors about it? Probably better than direct to the council yourself.

bk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123794155#Comment_123794155

I'd always report it to the council first, give them a few weeks and if nothing happens, then report it to your local councillors, along with the evidence that you had reported it to the council but nothing was done.

It looks worse for the council if there is a record of it being reported and them doing nothing, then if you just go straight to a councillor first.

Thelonious Monk

Alison Field I think the councillor is called. I've been emailing her. She is finding it hard to work out what's going on with it, the people who dug it up were supposed to fix it.

I'll take a photo next time but saw last night a house being done up on north strand road has dug up the footpath and tarmacked it over afterwards. Who is supposed to fix this one I wonder?

Ben D Bus

Donna Cooney is the GP cllr for the area and the cycling mayor (if she still holds that post). Probably the most likely to actively pursue issues like this.