Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

And thats wonderful and you probably live in an urban setting where everything you need is local, this is your life and your choices though.

Other people may have more children including children with disabilities, they may have elderly parents, they may not like cycling, its just more convenient as a family to drive to wherever they want to go at this point in their lives.

I am stating if you require bicycle lanes everywhere you cycle then its not the best mode of transport for you.

I preferred cycling with the traffic personally than be forced into these segregated two way lanes with speeding cyclists and no way to exit them to turn right.

I object to being forced to cross a road unsafely to get into a cycle lane and then to have to cross the same road four hundred metres further to leave this lane.

There is no room on the left side of this road to cycle with the traffic, it has been reduced in width to put in this two way cycle lane and its of no benefit to me.

It goes nowhere either, just stops at traffic lights and then dumps you out into traffic.

Previously you could get out in front of the cars and make them give you space, now the traffic is funnelled in on top of you so more dangerous than before.

Whats wrong with walking to school, meeting your pals on the way and having a chat, this is what my children did, the girls wouldnt have cycled anyway because of the school skirt and the straightened hair. Son always cycled on the road and he hates the new cycle lanes too, he says when he is cycling he doesnt want to be a pedestrian, ie getting off his bike to press a button to stop the traffic so he can cross to a two way cycle lane.

Children have cycled on the rooads to school for years where I live, boys mostly and I havent heard of many accidents. You do develop a sixth sense when you cycle a lot and this will help you far more than cycle lanes that go nowhere.

The Carysfort Avenue Cycle lane was promoted as a safe cycling to school option but traditionally children cycled though the park and then cycled the short distance to the national school on the footpath, not a problem. Now they are in this cycle lane that crosses housing estate exits, and a business school and then it stops at Convent Road so back up on the footpath the children go anyway.

En route home they cycle on the footpath to get to it and then they are turfed out at the top of the road,its much safer to go through Carysfort Park and by pass Carysfort Avenue completely if you are cycling to Stillorgan. Same if you are cycling to Dunlaoghaire, the cycling lane is pointless as you are back in traffic past Convent Road, you would be much safer cycling through Avondale Lawn, exit at Barclay Court and join the cycle lane to Dunlaoghaire, return by this route too.

I cant understand why in all their promotional literature access through two parks to Dunlaoghaire and Stillorgan wasnt highlighted, was it because local residents didnt want speeding male cyclists in their housing estates.

Its going to evaporate, I mean this happened in Paris so of course its going to happen in sandymount.

its only a temporary trial too, sure, the same way other cycle lanes were supposed to be temporary too.