Good lord that is horrendous. All to add in turning lanes so you can stay in the traffic jam and be delayed by cars going straight instead of being momentarily delayed by cars turning instead.
Turning lanes are one of my pet hates - councils are obsessed with them, but in places where there are no turning lanes it doesn't seem to make any difference to traffic. Near me there's a small food market that has a right turning lane provided for their tiny carpark - if there was no turning lane, there'd be space for a proper cycle lane. Meanwhile the big Tesco across the road has no turning lanes and functions fine.
All they do is let you get to the back of the traffic jam quicker...
I'm not completely opposed to them. I think the one into Omni in Santry is pretty necessary, but there should be a high bar for them.
coming from the north side? that lane is confusing if you're not used to it because the 'straight ahead' lane becomes the right turn only lane.
That is often the road marking that is at fault - no proper advance warning.
yeah, it's the road marking in that case.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3936587,-6.2456472,83m/data=!3m1!1e3
The stretch from Northwood to the flyover is all pretty confusing. The lanes change like that a few times.
these articles irritate me. the conclusions drawn are either trivial or misinterpret data. yes, scooter crashes examined by doctors in A&E are unlikely to be trivial if you are by definition examining only cases presented at A&E. and the comment about hi-vis is almost certainly irrelevant when 14 out of the 15 cases described are situations where visibility is not an issue (and no info on the 15th).
A sample size of 15 cases...
oh ffs
It makes a great "oh won't someone please think of the children" article in both the Irish Medical Journal and the Irish Examiner. Paper doesn't refuse ink!
Particularly as e-scooters are not legal on Irish roads - and surprise surprise - some of those injured were on their first attempt on an e-scooter and none were wearing either hi-viz or an helmet. There are also talking about a small number of Cork people injured - no attempt made to assess the number of users not injured. Is 15 a high number or a low number?
Riding an e-scooter strikes me as a quite exposed means of transport - not for the faint hearted. I would not ride one without a helmet or hi-viz, while I would ride a bike without one.
doctors looking at this situation in the context described are like people looking at a landscape through a very powerful telescope; they are very well positioned to describe what they can see through the telescope, but the problem with high powered telescopes is that they have a very narrow field of view so they can only see a tiny portion of the landscape with it.
just to correct a comment i made, it's 13 of the 15 where hi-vis was not relevant, not 14 of 15.
and 60% of the patients had pre-existing conditions? what do they mean by this, i wonder, and how does it compare with the general population?
Doctors claimed it was shocking that only four patients were wearing a helmet, despite the relatively high speeds used by most riders.
Three-fifth of those involved in collisions with their e-scooters suffered injuries to their upper body.
Shocked that they didn't have helmets to protect themselves from all those upper body injuries?
We need to find our Anne Hidalgo
We don't have an equivalent position in the first place. We need an elected mayor with actual power first.
Actually, we need elected local government with actual power - not an Chief Executive who can override the elected representatives.
A proper devolved council with actual powers, answerable to the electorate, including an elected Mayor. For Dublin, it should include all four Dublin councils.
Only problem with that is you end up with loads of corruption (this is why so much power has been stripped from Councillors) and initiatives that live and die on the next election results
The CEO setup is not perfect by any means but its better than leaving it to some of the doses that manage to get elected
That is true, but a proper system of oversight and strict limits to what is local and what is national may balance that.
However, corruption and short-termism would be inevitable.
I simply don't trust the city council. Their wards are too small and they knee-jerk against any development in it. A city-wide (or indeed county-wide) Mayor with executive power can rely on broadly popular initiatives without worrying about how they impact specific areas.
'A proper system of oversight'
Are you familiar with this country at all?
Your irony meter is broken.
A city wide mayor could appeal to nimbies right across the city which would be a fairly sure route to electoral success. The campaigning would probably be a race to the bottom in nimbyism.
Housing shortags in particular disproportionately fall on those not originally from the city (either from elsewhere in Ireland or migrants*), who are less likely to vote in Dublin so it may not be a big issue in mayoral campaigns. Similarly there are plenty in Dublin who drove around the city most of their lives who oppose greater restrictions on private cars. Could you imagine Mannix Flynn becoming mayor!
*not dismissing the fact that the housing shortage also effects many Dubs but these are generally young therefore less likely to vote, while the older settled generation who vote in greater numbers are more likely to want the status quo maintained.
A nimby by definition is an extremely local concern though. Concepts such as safe cycling routes for children are generally popular - just sometimes not locally if it impacts traffic. Campaigning on a ticket of stopping all development everywhere won't get you far. Mannix is a crank who would never get sufficient support city-wide. People want improvements, they just don't want to face the reality of the side-effects. A local politician currently just hops onboard with this and suggests the improvement is done but "elsewhere" - a citywide mayor won't have much truck with that.
Going back to this, escooters are being legislated for under the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, as well as strengthening of laws around scramblers, etc.;
Part of the R113 in Knocklyon has been closed for 1 week to facilitate sewerage upgrade works. Even with the construction noise, its a far more pleasant place to be without the cars flying by or idling in a line of traffic.
TLDR - cars are bloody noisy.
This is encouraging, for Europe anyway, I really can't see the car being restricted much in Ireland with the shenanigans going on during Covid. We are a bit of a lost cause, and traffic just keeps getting worse.
i knew america was an extreme in how they built their cities, but i hadn't realised why, in the way it's cemented into planning laws:
Interesting study released by the department of transport to dramatically increase parking charges in all cities. I’m sure this report will make for a nice dust collector in the department.
Not really, its pretty much a road map for the future of the cities. The intent is to make the cities more inviting to people and less inviting to cars.
That 300% figure is one of many potential options but the one selected by one or two journalists for headline grabbing purposes.
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