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Cycling on paths and other cycling issues (updated title)

Rogerrabit

Hi cycling in footpaths is very dangerous for pedestrians especially now with this virus pandemic. Every day I witness these events cyclists on the footpaths spewing out germs as they cycle past pedestrians less than two feet from them. If any of these cyclists have the virus the pedestrians have no chance they will pick up the disease. Why do the police allow this carry on. They should be protecting the elderly instead of turning a blind eye to this outrageous carryon. What do yo think out there in Ireland the country whose population do not know how to wear a facemask.

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07Lapierre

The crap some people have to put up with!

https://twitter.com/velobetty/status/1289085454785093633?s=21

Idleater

Tea drinker wrote: »

Golf drivers are the absolute worst!

I've disliked golfers since they took a passing fancy to titanium in the 90s and pushed up the price of bike frames.

07Lapierre

kenmm wrote: »

Didn't you get the earphones with the bike? Along with the instructional video in how to mount the kerbs and sail through lights. I mean obviously all cyclists are the same, that must of been when it happened?

I have to admit... I failed my Kerb "Bunny hopping" test recently. thankfully no one was around to witness it!

Tea drinker

See this is the problem, the acute and chronic lack of awareness of cyclists. Page after page and yet no one seems to have noticed Golf drivers are the absolute worst!

kenmm

Sometimes I get my BMW skills and my cycling skills mixed up. Its so confusing trying to adhere to the appropriate label.

[Deleted User]

kenmm wrote: »

Didn't you get the earphones with the bike? Along with the instructional video in how to mount the kerbs and sail through lights. I mean obviously all cyclists are the same, that must of been when it happened?

I had to do a QQI Level 8 course to get those skills. They do it in the same place as the course for Audi drivers to assume that the road and paths are entirely empty, and the one for BMW drivers to stop using their indicators.

kenmm

07Lapierre wrote: »

Phew! At least they haven’t banned the use of earphones!

Didn't you get the earphones with the bike? Along with the instructional video in how to mount the kerbs and sail through lights. I mean obviously all cyclists are the same, that must of been when it happened?

07Lapierre

Spook_ie wrote: »

As it stands in Ireland and the UK no, if they wanted to charge you it would have to be reckless cycling or similar, however the Dutch have introduced a ban since July 2019, and I look forward to when we can get a similar ban here. But of course that's because I hate cyclists rather than thinking that cycling and Facebooking etc. is distracting from road safety.

https://www.eltis.org/discover/news/netherlands-prohibits-use-mobile-phones-bicycles#:~:text=In%20the%20Netherlands%2C%20since%201,are%20cognitively%20and%20visually%20distracted.

Phew! At least they haven’t banned the use of earphones!

beauf

kenmm wrote: »

This must be the worst thread on boards. No winners here.

If you put the spammers on ignore it improves a lot. The thread is about 75% shorter aswell.

Spook_ie

TallGlass2 wrote: »

Out of interest, anyone know if it is actually breaking the law using a phone cycling :pac:

As it stands in Ireland and the UK no, if they wanted to charge you it would have to be reckless cycling or similar, however the Dutch have introduced a ban since July 2019, and I look forward to when we can get a similar ban here. But of course that's because I hate cyclists rather than thinking that cycling and Facebooking etc. is distracting from road safety.

https://www.eltis.org/discover/news/netherlands-prohibits-use-mobile-phones-bicycles#:~:text=In%20the%20Netherlands%2C%20since%201,are%20cognitively%20and%20visually%20distracted.

Pinch Flat

TallGlass2 wrote: »

Out of interest, anyone know if it is actually breaking the law using a phone cycling :pac:

Your bike could mount the pavement, taking out anything in its path - pedestrians, cars, parked trucks or perhaps demolish a light pole or tree.

TallGlass2

TaurenDruid wrote: »

Using phone to text or read while driving or cycling - or, for that matter, crossing the road on foot = dumb.

Out of interest, anyone know if it is actually breaking the law using a phone cycling :pac:

Tea drinker

SPDUB wrote: »

Because that's a description of a style of Government by someone who is the head of Government whereas AOC is only one of 441 Representatives

Well you've strung together a sentence but pardon me if I see no real justification for your bias contained above.
Trumpian is a form of invocation for a group of people, it's not a crititique of his governance, it's a rejection of all things Trump. We are wandering far off track here, pardon the pun.

SeanW

Trump is not "head of the government" of the United States. The US has 3 co-equal branches, Legislature (Congress), the Executive branch and the Judiciary. DJT is only head of one branch, the Executive. As for AOC, it looks like she and "the squad" are the future of the US Democratic Party.

SPDUB

Tea drinker wrote: »

Any particular reason you ignored the first use of us political slang (Trumpian in nature by Andrew) but decided to hone in on this one

Because that's a description of a style of Government by someone who is the head of Government whereas AOC is only one of 441 Representatives

07Lapierre

Ah yes. They do things differently in "The Kingdom"

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TaurenDruid

Using phone to text or read while driving or cycling - or, for that matter, crossing the road on foot = dumb.

[Deleted User]

TaurenDruid wrote: »

Or the deliveroo, just eat and "ordinary" cyclists using their phones while cycling, being surprised by lampposts jumping out in front of them.

I haven't seen too many news reports of cyclists being killed or maimed after being surprised by lamp posts, so I'm guessing this isn't really a very big problem. In the unlikely situation of this happening, the person put at risk is the cyclist.

Whereas when drivers are playing with their phones and posting on boards, this is the kind of thing that happens - four people from one family getting wiped out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eojhtc6Wvsw

TaurenDruid

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Could be worse though - could be the thread with one of the 'best and safest drivers in the world' boasting about posting to boards.ie while driving.

Or the deliveroo, just eat and "ordinary" cyclists using their phones while cycling, being surprised by lampposts jumping out in front of them.

[Deleted User]

kenmm wrote: »

This must be the worst thread on boards. No winners here.

Could be worse though - could be the thread with one of the 'best and safest drivers in the world' boasting about posting to boards.ie while driving.

SeanW

SPDUB wrote: »

Any particular reason you are using American political slurs in a thread about cycling in Ireland

It seemed fair with all the "Trump" and "Trumpian" nonsense thrown around by cyclists. BTW it wasn't just Andrew, though he is the main offender.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

It's the Trumpian approach. Keep repeating a lie often enough and hope that it sticks.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

The Trumpian approach is the introduction of the international comparison, when it's not really relevant. All it shows it that no other country has bothered to really get to grips with this issue.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

It’s quite Trumpian in nature, so far detached from the actual reality of what happens on the roads.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

It’s not that I don’t agree with you. I don’t see any credibility in the man who steps out into traffic multiple times on every working shift telling everyone else in the world except him and his car that they should be hi-vis. Breathtaking hypocrisy, almost Trumpian.

Hurrache wrote: »

I see you're from the Trump school of statistics.

meeeeh

Thargor wrote: »

Twitter and Facebook tend to rot weaker minds so bicycles/climate/change/vaccines/facemasks/socialism/anything progressive all end up being classed as THE ENEMY. 2 of the most toxic companies in history imo.

Well considering how much Twitter is quoted in this thread quite a bit of rotting is done. Or are weaker minds classified as those who don't agree with you?

Thargor

SPDUB wrote: »

Any particular reason you are using American political slurs in a thread about cycling in Ireland

Twitter and Facebook tend to rot weaker minds so bicycles/climate/change/vaccines/facemasks/socialism/anything progressive all end up being classed as THE ENEMY. 2 of the most toxic companies in history imo.

Tea drinker

SPDUB wrote: »

Any particular reason you are using American political slurs in a thread about cycling in Ireland

Any particular reason you ignored the first use of us political slang (Trumpian in nature by Andrew) but decided to hone in on this one

micar

kenmm wrote: »

This must be the worst thread on boards. No winners here.

Totally agree.

kenmm

This must be the worst thread on boards. No winners here.

SPDUB

SeanW wrote: »

I suppose it beats going to the Alexandria Occasional-Cortex school of statistics.

Any particular reason you are using American political slurs in a thread about cycling in Ireland

Tea drinker

Spook_ie wrote: »

The stubbies were put in to prevent entry exit via the entryway adjacent to the Lifeboat station

Luckily it seems that DLR coco have decided that the experiment of having the farmers market on Queens Rd as well has been done away with.

Saw those this weekend and was a bit surprised by the stubbies as it moves a lot of traffic to the next traffic lights. (2 passes instead of one necessary under one way system) Having the marquis setup on the road, fine, do it one day a year when the red bull thing is on or some such, but there is a huge park, lots of adjacent places to put stalls. Quite ignorant to plonk it on the road. This past weekend some of the artists were moved to the stand just in front of the club house, and it seems a good fit, were they even used for people walking before?
Lay by gone which accomadated ~5 cars, parking for ~15 cars adjacent the 40ft gone, Killiney hill parking gone. 40 million on a library that struggles to open at the weekend...More money then sense in DLRCOCO ?

Spook_ie

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

So nothing to do with the cycle facilities then. That's what I thought.

It is factually correct to say that drivers are killing people. It is not factually correct to say that any collision is accidental until you have completed a full investigation. It is an assumption.

You are so full of B.S. you can't even see it when it's laid out in black and white in front of you.

[DLRCC as a local authority and a road authority has a duty of care to all road users, particularly vulnerable road users such as cyclists and pedestrians, and the mobility interventions, including the provision of a 2-way segregated cycle way, have necessitated changes to the road layout along Queen’s Road and in the Harbour area. In order to avoid a conflict between cyclists on the 2-way cycle way and vehicles, it was deemed necessary from a safety perspective to prevent access to vehicles via the access point in the Harbour closest to the East Pier.

meeeeh

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

So nothing to do with the cycle facilities then. That's what I thought.

It is factually correct to say that drivers are killing people. It is not factually correct to say that any collision is accidental until you have completed a full investigation. It is an assumption.

How is it factually correct to say anything before investigation is fully completed? You wouldn't be one of those who end up in lynch mobs because they know better?