Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

And as soon as people stop electing them, you'll have it all your own way I'm sure.

I don't think you get it at all. Party politics is local democracy. People saying no are just as entitled to representation as people saying yes. And that's exactly my point about these consultations, cycling advocacy groups putting out social media calls for people from anywhere to make submissions on these local issues, it simply has no credibility. The Councillors and the Council officials have sat down with people locally and what they are seeing and hearing in person does not reflect the outcome of online consultations, because the latter are bogus. That's what brought about what happened tonight and its why these things need a statutory foundation.

The "Local support" should be only one consideration in these schemes, given the much wider impact on active travel and the greater good. Deansgrange is the commuting route to the City Centre from North Wicklow, the area's around it such as Cabinteely/ Foxrock/ Cornelscourt/ Loughlinstown. It's completely ridiculous they have a veto on these schemes.

I'm local and there's plenty of support for it, particularly among people like me who commute by bike and have kids who would use the route. Not dismissing many reasonable people who have legitimate concerns about access and traffic displacement. But the key word people are missing here is 'Trial'.

If the Trial doesn't work the world then DLRCOCO can look at other ideas. This is being framed as a piece of permanent infra by the naysayers.

As Cllr Shay Brennan (Fianna Fáil) said: “Further consultation is a cop-out. We can have much more info in 6 months if we began the live trial now! We must get more serious about this, we need a solid, safe and direct cycling network. The alternative is an unusable network of local compromises and further car-clogged roads.”

I go back to my regular refrain so, Eamon Ryan needs to act on Carville and Flynn v DCC and put these schemes on a statutory footing to a higher standard of planning, design and consultation.

If not, we are destined to have all these proposals stuck in limbo indefinitely. DCCs appeal of the above judgement has no basis in law for success, so let's face reality and get on with it.

Enough of this filth

Thats real ambition and real forward thinking.

Do it.

We've all always known that the ultimate solution here would be sustainable provision mixed with inevitable flood protection measures, exactly it is has been in Clontarf.

Time to assign the resources to the big picture solutions.

Green Party support fell from 22% to 8% in DBS election

With Bacik in now , there will be a hell of a fight for the last two seats between Geoghegan , Ryan and O'Callaghan.

I think that DCC should delay the development at the IGB site until the Strand Road bike lane implementation is resolved fully. It doesn’t make sense to me to build a load of apartments at one of the road before the issue is resolved, given that it just adds to the expectations of new resident drivers and builders that Strand Road is essential for their access.

I think if the decision was taken to delay IGB it would incentivise a lot of the vested interests and councillors to find a good solution to the bike lane. In my view it’s the vested interests there associated with that site that are behind the funding for the opposition.

Maxol station development got go ahead today from ABP which will also add more construction activity at end of Seán Moore Road/Church Ave