Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

The Carysfort cycling lane hasn’t improved cycling for anyone living on the East side of the road, it’s made what used to be a nice cycle from the village a pain in the ass.

Plans for improving cycling would be free and better public transport, cycling is a minority pursuit, mostly middle aged men who can’t afford golf club subscription. You won’t get most people out of cars if the alternative is cycling so get them out of cars and onto public transport equals less cars on the road.

The anti car agenda is being driven by some local authority officials, their latest plan is to turn Stillorgan Park into a traffic jam and all the while existing cycle lanes are left in a terrible condition, really unfit for purpose as can be seen when driving on the N11.At least there are bike signs painted on the paths on the N11, in many spots there is nowhere for pedestrians to walk at all and there are way more walkers than cyclists.

Does pedestrianising bring more business, I mean apart from more take out coffee. Blackrock village was made one way and from what I can see it’s people sitting outside eating unhealthy food on street furniture that doesn’t look very clean. The shops don’t look any busier to me.

I don’t drive into this estate.

There isn’t room to turn because the kerb of the cycle lane is too far forward, cars can’t turn in safely the way they did since the houses were built, similar to the way I can’t cycle to my house the safe way I did for twenty five years and more.And cars can’t exit safely either as they have to come too far out beyond the cycle lane when exiting to get a clear view of oncoming traffic.

There will be so many accidents when traffic volumes return.

I can see the turn in had been made dangerous because cars have to come around a kerb, i dont need to drive in to see it, the pedantry here is unreal and its just all an attempt to dismiss negativity caused by this cycle lane.

This is a busy junction and in a line of moving traffic you indicate and you turn, you have traffic exiting, you have oncoming traffic, you have residents ipposite the park indicating to pull in and out, you have cars turning into Avondale and exiting out of it, you have cyclists coming both ways including three year olds on scooters whose minders have let them scoot on ahead, utter stupidity.

And then you have pedestrians and schoolchildren on bikes crossing from a path inside the park gate while you have huge jeeps with not enough room to turn in.

You can moan about SUVs and landrovers all you like, people can spend their money on whatever they like and making turns into a park more difficult for them puts other road users in harms way.

There is so much going on and I dont know what normal traffic and winter is going to bring.

The point is there would be no need to dismount if you could cycle with traffic towards your house, most people lucky enough not to have pointless two way cycle lanes opposite their houses can do this.

Im really hoping I will be able to cycle in peace again without cars blaring horns at me. The sooner the cycling lane is removed the better, hopefully before traffic increases in volume

Dont be silly, I choose to live here because of its convenience, I have no problem with traffic, roads are designed and built to carry traffic and this road was safe to cycle on without any segregation.

Its not safe now for the reasons I have outlined and sticking a cycling lane that throws you onto busy narrow roads does nothing to encourage anybody to cycle rather than walk.

Use your thinking cap and think how much better it would have been to improve existing cycling infrastructure in the area.

That cycle lane is going to be covered in wet leaves and conkers shortly, just like it was last winter, I will be squashed up against the kerb on the opposite side of the road.