Near Misses Volume 2 (So close you can feel it)

Cyclist did nothing wrong there, he grabbed hold of the handlebars with two hands as he knew he was getting hit.!!!

Idiocy. That particular habit was nothing against you as cyclists. Drive for 5 minutes on the M50 during a busier time and you realise that the number of people who will "fill the (safe) gaps" is depressing. It's like they think it's no different to parallel parking...if there is space, why wouldn't I fill it.

Ah yeah look I'm not advocating that we should all remain in segregated bike lanes under any circumstances, and was more agreeing with DaCor where he was saying if it's was a full network with protection at junctions.

I just don't think a blanket statement of being against bike lanes overall is a common sentiment and the majority of commuting cyclists would use em if they were well built.

This is why we need Gardai to make a point of punishing motorists for this stuff. The attitude towards cyclists in this country is a joke. I understand the Gardai are limited by our ridiculous court/justice system but at the very least they should be fining everyone in these situations.

I've reported a number of incidents with Traffic Watch with helmet or dash cam footage. A number of them were brake testing which is a mandatory court appearance and I heard nothing back.

Ah but don't worry, we have that stupid RSA ad about giving a little bit of space for a lot more safe. How about we get some proper helmet cam collision footage and tell people to cop on in the ad? After all we had those shock factor drink driving ads.

Starting point for me with this is to get the Gardai out cycling themselves, then it will get a bit more real for them.

Mentioned it here before, but its very rare to see them on bikes in Dublin these days.

There are hundred different groups out there saying "the gardai need to crack down on this, that and the other". They havent done so far, why do you expect them to start doing it now?

Every city Garda station should have one Garda out on a bike for every daytime shift. That would make a huge difference to attitudes, and to enforcement of mobile phone abuse in particular. Ability to cycle should be a mandatory recruitment criteria for future rounds of recruitment.

First day back to the office since before Covid and I'd the several close passes at speed, encroachments and blatant driving on the painted cycle lanes while trying to use them, serval pointless overtakes only to filter pass them again seconds later, a left hook and cars passing me while signalling and attempting to turn right its a 44km round trip but even pre covid that would have been a very bad day at least the weather was good!

Seems to happen to me quite a lot. I've been chased, deliberately driven at, physically assaulted the lot - this one didn't phase me to be honest. Think I will ring trafficwatch all the same as I recognized the car from that area (Kinsealy) and I think he was trying to teach me some sort of lesson.

I’ll definitely give that a go, thanks.

Whats the name of the app? There are archives of .apk files for every app ever made out there, you just download the .apk file and click on it and it will install. Thats Android but I assume theres something similar for Apple.