Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

I did say, put in some lane dividers.

The only effective separation would leave less parking/ access than the one way. Unless the intention is for it to be more ineffective infrastructure that doesn't make it safe for cyclists and allows people to ignore and park as they did before.

If you use Belmont Avenue at all, you might want to respond to this.

Yeah, Belmont Ave. is pretty bad, but after a few years I finally switched from Marlborough Road to Belmont Avenue. At least it's narrow enough that you can stop people close-passing you going downhill, where your speed also should be reasonable for a narrow road through a residential street. Though, of course, there's a risk someone following you will go bananas.at being delayed by about ten seconds, before they meet a car coming uphill, have to pull in and start playing car twister so they can pass.

Yeah, definitely could happen. On balance, though, being knocked off by one of the stream of close-passing motorists misjudging the pass or swinging hard left when they suddenly notice a car coming the other way is more likely.

Good old DMURS, creates lethal hazards by a conflict of priorities.

Several roundabouts in the DLR area were reverted back to their previous unmarked traffic lanes because of massive local pushback over the danger it created.

But they don't. The 'turbo roundabout' is a proven design, but thats not whats on Wellington Lane, thats a DMURS Irish abomination.

Below 1 is a turbo roundabout, 2 is a DMURS roundabout in Ireland. The disadvantage it puts cyclists at is obvious. Its forces them to try and orbit the roundabout on the outside lane of it, while expecting cars to yield to them from the left. You cannot entirely blame drivers for a totally counterintuitive design that goes against every rule they've ever learned. Its a disgrace.

Yes you're correct, but consider this.

For a lorry, the nearside quarter is a blindspot from much farther than you'd expect. And, the lorry driver wouldn't in a million years have been expecting a cyclist to be heading for a far-side exit while outside of him.

Yes, there is careless driving on the part of the truck, but the design of the roundabout placed our man in a more vulnerable position in the first in place.

He says in his subtitles that he signalled, and you can just about see him move his right hand.

Piss poor driving and piss poor infrastructure aren’t mutually exclusive. He was also dumped out onto the roundabout from the off road cycle track right at the exit, one exit earlier.

Indeed. However in Ireland, its mandated as best design practice. How wonderful.

I know ye are sick of me as a broken record on this stuff, but after it all, I DO cycle regularly, my family does too and I care more than anything about our safety. What I hate about how infrastructure for cycling is developed in this country, is how inconsistent the designs are, how dangerous much of that design is (including drainage camber, manhole covers, upright obstacles etc) and how lacking in ambition the contiguous and segregated routes are.

Has anyone noticed the roadworks on the Grange Road, Rathfarnham? They have been going on since about May/June and virtually no progress is being made over the last 2 months. The general idea is to improve things for cyclists. However on one place the footpath has been widened and the existing cycle lane narrowed (near Loreto Beaufort School). A deliberate creation of a cyclist killing-zone in my opinion. As part of the same project there is a half-completed attempt to divert a cycle lane inside a new traffic island at which there will be a bus stop. I can't see many cyclists making the appropriate sharp diversion inside the island.

Further up Grange Road, beyond the entrance to St Enda's SDCC a few years ago widened the footpaths on both sides of the road, just after the existing cycle lanes ended. They could have easily accommodated a cycle lane in the Southbound (uphill) direction, but for some reason created a danger to cyclists instead.

I'm generally no fan of the more militant cyclists, but the sheer incompetence of SDCC's road engineers is really annoying. The same people have also produced a truly wonderful traffic-jam-creating roundabout in the Knocklyon area.

I know you are joking a little, but the Knocklyon roundabout is a jam-creator, (a) because it has been narrowed to only one lane and (b) because the entrances and exits now require very sharp turns which slow everything down (more than is necessary for safety in my opinion). Moreover this is on a road giving access to the M50.

There is nothing more wasteful or carbon-emitting than a queue of jammed cars waiting to negotiate an artificially contrived bottleneck. All of this was created in the name of some enhanced cycleway, and I see very few cyclists in the area.

What's more wasteful and carbon-emitting is a row of cars moving without a bottleneck, because there'll be more of them due to induced demand.

You know what's not wasteful or carbon-emitting? Users of an enhanced cycleway! 😀

Yours, an apparently militant cyclist.