Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

But surely we should be inconveniencing motorists and taking road space away from them if we want to shift to more efficient sustainable means of transport in Dublin, no?

That's the effects of years of no proper infrastructure scaring off women, children & elderly. It stands to reason that cycling activists would be male because they form the majority of cyclists at present. The whole point of developing safe, segregated cycle infrastructure is to encourage more people, and wider diversity, to take up cycling. As has been said, this infrastructure isn't for the "lycra-clad" that seem to be endemic (according to angry letters to newspapers).

It could equally be said, when people complain about motorists being inconvenienced, "what's wrong with walking to [insert destination]"? I know, a nonsense response, same as yours. It's like going into a shop and asking for a pint of milk and the shop assistant saying "what's wrong with potatoes?". Some people want to cycle, what's wrong with that? And where do people have to press pedestrian lights to join a 2-way cycle lane? The CMR? Why not cycle along the road until traffic clears before joining it? Even if I was to use the pedestrian lights, the relief on joining the segregated cycle lane of not having to watch your back for dangerous drivers far outweighs any inconvenience.

That is what's happening.

Think getting around traffic jams, parking and loading are easier for cargo trikes. They have that advantage of container shipping: you can go to the depot, and they just put the new container onto the trike, pre-loaded.

They carry less than vans, but a lot of vans seem to be mostly empty anyway on most journeys.

"cyclists are a minority"

On the quays at peak times, where the cycle infrastruture is being eyed up for a Mannixing, there are more cyclists than people driving. In the city centre, only about 30% of people arrive by private car. There are quite a few places where people who drive are overprovided for, and where they are in the minority.

Is it? It seems to me we're not doing enough, and plans are starting to get Mannixed. But yes I guess we've made some strides.

Also, go to the North Strand at rush hour and tell me cyclists are a minority. It's a constant busy stream towards the centre, at least it was pre covid and will be again.

Someone tried to murder a teenager and it's a cycle lanes fault lol

I can tell you that in the areas I've been driving though for decades, the throughput is greatly reduced over that times due to less lanes, more junctions. Sometimes thats intentionally to discourage drivers, sometimes to facilitate buses. Sometimes not.

Pre-Covid, this has almost never been to improve cycling. I can say in all that time (decades pre-covid) the cycling infrastructure I use to get work has mostly not changed.