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

Bit of a bizarre interaction today approaching this roundabout and there's a van turning right but straddling both lanes. I'm in the left and a guy decides there's enough room for the 3 of us in the left lane I left a roar and he just floors it through. Insult to injury he's stopped 50m later picking up someone from the bus stop at the Springfield hotel. I cycle past and he shouts something like there was plenty of room I didn't bother to engage but he annoyed me. Then as I'm cycling around this bend I hear a car accelerate from behind me and he passes me with plenty of room on the wrong side of the road! It's another pointless pass as there's a queue of traffic just around the bend and he's shouting at me as I approach 5 seconds later. He wants to know if that was enough room for me!! Not proud of myself I told him he was a clown and I'd of given him the benefit of the doubt on the first pass but the second confirmed it! The traffic moved off and he went with them I was just left shaking my head he could have caused a serious accident to make a point!

Pr1ck

That’s a terrible junction, in fact the whole road is a pain for cyclists especially at school times

There's plans for a school about 1km in the opposite direction of where this video is where there's on street parking to the left of an off road lane so traffic needs to cross the bike lane, big hazard for someone pulling out in front of a cyclist along with kids getting out of the car and stepping into the lane. Poor planning for something that is all new infrastructure and planned in recent years. They're not thinking because they don't cycle and simply don't care and it will be left that way as the bike lane already exists. Funny enough, 5 minutes down the road there's an off road bike lane along the schools in Adamstown where the parallel car parking isn't an issue...

The bike lane is also completely covered in gravel from construction traffic because it's almost level with the road as opposed to a full raised curb.

Yep. They should.

Better run sites wont let them off the site without it in place.

Bit plenty poor sites (usually housing) use cheapest trucks and nobody either side cares

Removed the kissing gates at Griffeen down by AGP1.

Dont see the issue with the kissing gates, its easy to get off the bikes and get them through, even my 8 year old can do it.

The reason they can't put bollards there is because they haven't provided the facilities for parking. Same at Griffeen, a small car park where there is two big gaa pitches. Car park wouldn't be enough for any away team arriving.

Then you have parkrun, why the hell do people drive to parkrun when its less than 5k from home.!! Jaysus easy jog or cycle to it

If you look at the original twitter post, "someone's going to explain to me that this truck flying along the path is fine and what do I expect the driver to do"

which to be fair is exactly what you'd expect some punter to come out and say.

No one is 'funnelling' the truck down the lane. The truck driver chooses to go down there.

I understand your point, but I'm just tired of people blaming bad driving on things other than the driver...particularly politicians and the media.