Dublin 15 is going to get a lot more congested.

daymobrew · 25-06-2021 2:37pm

Phil.x wrote: »

I see the home owner is blocking off the footpath outside their home so the new footpath and cyclelane cannot continue. They have used garden stones, flower pots and metal barriers.

Can you submit a report on FixYourStreet.ie to about illegal dumping on the footpath?

Flinty997 · 30-06-2021 9:59am

Phil.x wrote: »

I see the home owner is blocking off the footpath outside their home so the new footpath and cyclelane cannot continue. They have used garden stones, flower pots and metal barriers. This is beside the canal at clonsilla going upto St Joseph hospital which is resulting in people walking and cycling on the road for 40 or 50 feet.
Old screenshots photo.

Confused. What are we meant to looking at in that photo? Do you just mean this location.

Larbre34 · 30-06-2021 5:15pm

I hardly think a few plant pots and the odd painted rock is going to stop a civil contractor in any case.

ongarboy · 30-06-2021 11:01pm

Phil.x wrote: »

I see the home owner is blocking off the footpath outside their home so the new footpath and cyclelane cannot continue. They have used garden stones, flower pots and metal barriers. This is beside the canal at clonsilla going upto St Joseph hospital which is resulting in people walking and cycling on the road for 40 or 50 feet.
Old screenshots photo.

I've noticed that too as I run by there often and it's handier to avoid the much more congested and narrower path opposite but its dangerous having to run or walk out on the open road bend for that obstructed section. There are two private entrances and both have blocked the path. While the St Josephs development haven't technically finished the last 20 feet of new footpath adjacent, once they have finished, I'd be expecting those 2 residents to remove their unsightly obstructions too.

I don't see how they can claim ownership of path outside their walls. If someone wants to trespass on their property, a few flowerpots and hand scribbled private property signs will not be a deterrent so I'm not sure what their motivation is by causing that obstruction. Instead they are creating a dangerous situation for pedestrians and other road users.

Former Former Former · 30-06-2021 11:25pm

Chrisam wrote: »

I see today that an application has gone in to APB for 198 build to rent apartments, in the grounds of the Old Schoolhouse, Porterstown Road. Add that to the 350 apartments planned behind St Mochta's school and you have 500+ apartments feeding traffic on to the Clonsilla Road (as a cul de sac, if the level crossing is closed). All happening right beside a primary school. Housing needed yes, but I don't agree with pushing all that extra traffic on to the Clonsilla Rd, right beside a primary school. Let's hope they all cycle!

This has been rejected by ABP, apparently.

Polar101 · 01-07-2021 5:36am

Flinty997 wrote: »

Confused. What are we meant to looking at in that photo? Do you just mean this location.

The issue is that there is a new cycle track/footpath built to west side of the road (right side of the road in this picture), but it ends abruptly at this spot. The footpath continues after the gap, but is very narrow until it reaches the Clonsilla station park&ride section of the road (around where that car on the left is just coming from), where it becomes a wider footpath/cycle track again. And it seems the narrow bit is now blocked by the houseowners.

Here is it on Google maps - most of the new cycle track/footpath is visible outside St. Joseph's (west side of the road). Street view is not current, and doesn't show the St. Joseph's estate.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3849115,-6.4281476,237m/data=!3m1!1e3

Flinty997 · 01-07-2021 8:14am

Cycle paths, or foot paths that abruptly end for no reason leaving you on the road is so common in D15 I assumed it's done deliberately by someone in a Fungal having a laugh.

raheny red · 01-07-2021 4:34pm

https://twitter.com/Fingalcoco/status/1410616108835430403?s=19

Larbre34 · 01-07-2021 5:05pm

Jesus C, on top of the 30 minute delays I heard about on the Westmanstown Road lately thanks to the closure of Lucan-Clonee, that'll be a nightmare.

Polar101 · 01-07-2021 7:40pm

Yeah, traffic pretty much at standstill there today. Hopefully there was no structural damage to the bridge and that they get it assessed quickly. I didn't notice any obvious damage myself, but I'm not a bridge engineer so I'm not declaring it safe just yet.

JupiterKid · 02-07-2021 2:37pm

It is really nothing short of a complete scandal why the Dublin - Maynooth line hasn’t been electrified for high capacity DART services by now, let alone 25 years ago when it should have been done.

This was promised to Dublin 15 back in the 1990s - three decades later, still nada.

Public transport in Dublin 15 is very, very poor for an area of comparable population to Limerick. Remember this the next time the politicos come knocking at your door...

Larbre34 · 02-07-2021 5:53pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

Jesus C, on top of the 30 minute delays I heard about on the Westmanstown Road lately thanks to the closure of Lucan-Clonee, that'll be a nightmare.

This road is back open today when I came through, the new pipeline crossing is complete.

kravmaga · 04-07-2021 10:59pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

The planning system is like someone deciding they need to clog their most important arteries, a prime example is allowing LIDL and ALDI to open opposite each other on East Wall Road, one of the most important North/South routes through the city. A child playing Sim City wouldn't do it.

Agreed, to add insult to injury there is a planning application going in for a 15 storey building where the car dealer is on the corner.

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/east-wall-rd-mixed-use-15-fls-planning.2280605/

https://www.davey-smith.com/our-work/east-wall-road/

blanch152 · 04-07-2021 11:56pm

kravmaga wrote: »

Agreed, to add insult to injury there is a planning application going in for a 15 storey building where the car dealer is on the corner.

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/east-wall-rd-mixed-use-15-fls-planning.2280605/

https://www.davey-smith.com/our-work/east-wall-road/

Seems like a sensible enough application for the location.

Flinty997 · 05-07-2021 1:35am

blanch152 wrote: »

Seems like a sensible enough application for the location.

Out of curiosity what would you consider a bad location.

raheny red · 06-07-2021 1:57pm

https://twitter.com/Fingalcoco/status/1412376578923843590?s=19

Brock Turnpike · 06-07-2021 2:42pm

raheny red wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Fingalcoco/status/1412376578923843590?s=19

A good trial for when the level crossing is closed for DART.

Flinty997 · 06-07-2021 3:32pm

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

A good trial for when the level crossing is closed for DART.

..and Kellystown is added lol..

Caranica · 06-07-2021 3:56pm

Castleknock gate is closed tomorrow from 7am to 7am Monday according to the sign at the gate. Restoring the old gates apparently. I think Ashtown might be affected too but not sure if it's the same timing.

Larbre34 · 06-07-2021 6:08pm

Works on the Ashtown gate are complete. Looks well.

Phil.x · 02-03-2022 9:53am

Wow, traffic all along the manorfield drive which is normal at 8.30am but the entire ongar road from allendale to powercity completely jamed, then 2/3rd of the road beside the canal at clonsilla Station and complete gridlock both ways just over the canal and tracks at clonsilla Station, all of this and not one new house built in the fields at the back on hansfield yet.

Flinty997 · 02-03-2022 10:48am

I'm not looking forward to the traffic when my WFH ends. All back to the rat race.

Phil.x · 09-11-2022 9:50am

Well that was new, I get the train at clonsilla every morning, i cycle and the traffic levels are fine. Today I got a lift and the traffic is at complete gridlock so much so I jump out near the new St Joseph's housing estate and upon entry to the station I noticed the traffic backed up right over the rail bridge.

lordleitrim · 15-11-2022 6:39pm

I've noticed the park and ride spaces up from Clonsilla train station are all fully occupied again on week days. That's the first time I've seen this since pre Covid. I'm wondering are more and more companies taking the Twitter approach of expecting workers back in the office full time again?

Larbre34 · 15-11-2022 11:55pm

I don't think so.

Much more likely that people themselves are tired of looking at the wall of the box room, or at their own family.

Certainly road traffic levels are up also, but blended working is only going to become more normalised, not less. There's a good chance that the Government will mandate a reduction in physical commuting again, if not for fuel shortage reasons, then to meet emissions targets.

raheny red · 10-02-2023 2:59pm

Lengthy delays in Blanch Village atm with the roadworks at The Bell junction. Anyone know how long these are going on for?

blanch152 · 13-02-2023 5:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120224179#Comment_120224179

Looking at it they did one side of the road first and are now on the other side, probably the best part of this week at least before they finish.

Phil.x · 18-02-2023 12:22pm

Does anyone know why lots of tree's on this corner were chopped down, lots of big healthy looking tree's.

danfrancisco83 · 18-02-2023 3:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120256738#Comment_120256738

The trees hanging out over the road look kind of dodgy. They have planted new trees there, so I'd say it's just safety.

Dr_Colossus · 18-02-2023 10:25pm

20230218210809.pdf

This leaflet came through the door last week which somewhat explains the reasoning for cutting down trees, nothing to do with them looking dodgy but instead to improve sightlines.

"This work will include a new set of pedestrian lights and was necessitated by the large number of representations both FCC and local councillors were receiving about pedestrians crossing at the dangerous bend of the Old Clonsilla Road because a section of the path has been blocked off. This unfortunately necessitates the removal of a small number of trees to improve sightlines."

So as pictured in the leaflet why has a section of the path been blocked off? Surely the railings and flower pots can be removed to allow pedestrians walk towards the canal and train station without the need to cross the road and yet more pedestrian lights?

Dublin 15 is going to get a lot more congested.

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