Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

I don't recall anyone saying Strand Rd is the "only possible" route; just that it is the safest, most direct and most widely used.

No it’s obviously not grand to waste public money.

However you and a few other posters have written here that the man is arrogant, is always doing this sort of stuff etc. When pushed for examples, one probably poor decision from more than 10 years is dragged up. In the example, the mistake was admitted and rectified. It’s not like the Killiney Towers roundabout hasn’t been changed to this day and is ruining lives. If anything it supports the point that the cycle path is a trial which can be reversed if it doesn’t work.

Whats your real issue with Keegan? It seems to be personal with a few of you.

DLR was the response when it was questioned when has he used this modus operandi before? There is still no example provided of him using a trial as cover to make something permanent. In fact the example you provided shows the opposite - changing something supposed to be permanent because it didn’t work.

Why don’t you respond to the substance of my post rather than picking on one phrase? What’s your issue with Keegan? Unless there isn’t one and you’re just attacking him because you don’t want the cycle lane?

Wait till you hear about motorists.

Keegan's form is well known where it matters. He has spent long enough cultivating his reputation so he can deal with any consequences.

Strand Rd will be decided on its own merits which is how it should be.

All good points, none of which have anything to do with the consequences of closing Strand Rd to traffic heading for the East Link .

It's not YOUR AREA. Belongs to all of us.

No Caoimhín, I knew the CC were on dangerous ground from the off, I said so here and I believe the Judge to be correct because he's a bleedin Judge!

I don't give a monkeys who it drives up the wall (should you not be cycling up the wall?), I said last night that when I see local authorities bending the rules to suit themselves when the rest of us have to have every i and t perfect in our projects, it's drives me mad. I never said I was magnanimous about that.

There is simply what is right and what is wrong and I believe very strongly that the judgement will hold up and any appeal will be rejected, for all the reasons I thought the whole thing was bogus in the first place.

I'm hearing from learned Counsel of my acquaintance that the pandemic has increased the backlog in the Court of Appeal (Civil) to between 18 and 24 months.

Lawyers for the CC could apply for a public interest priority, but given the minor nature, relatively speaking, of this matter, I don't see it being successful. Even an accelerated process would be at least 12 months away.

He's just spoofing really (imagine!).

You have to evaluate things on their own merits to see whats likely. Mannix Flynn doesn't have sufficient interest (legally speaking) in areas outside the City Council's territory.

Yes, other residents groups in Dun Laoghaire /Blackrock, Glasnevin, Malahide etc may be emboldened by the Strand Road decision and take their own cases, but they'll have to resource them. I suspect each of those projects may well be more of an even split of opinion locally, so raising 20k in the blink of an eye like STC did might be a next level challenge.

One scheme Mannix may well go after himself is the City Quays.

As for the eating areas and parking spaces cordoned off, well they're a different animal to the Strand Road proposals, both in terms of scale and impact. In my opinion they could be provided for under a few different Acts and various local bye-laws in different Counties, so I don't see them being challenged. They'll probably just gradually disappear as full indoor reopenings roll out and winter closes in, maybe to become a summer only phenomenon in the years to come, as demand dictates.

Flynn can speak for himself about cyclists. All I have seen him say about Strand Rd is about how the plan to close it will be to the detriment of the people who live there.

He turned up in the aftermath of a rave-like gathering at Oliver Bond flats at the start of the pandemic and almost immediately started complaining about cycling infrastructure. The gathering had, of course, nothing to do with cycling infrastructure.

I think in psychology, it's what they used to call an idée fixe.