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

Ferris · 13-10-2021 04:20PM

They are funneled however if they cannot go under the railtrack at Manse Rd and are supposed to go through Baldoyle or Portmarnock villages. I cycle it every day and its always like that - that driver is going much faster than then anyone else i've seen however and its bang out of order. You see cars and particularly SUV's doing it too, again, frequently so its not just haulage.

Its insufficient infrastructure at the end of the day and it has to be fixed at some point, fingal is just trying to make it some future developers problem. I know that some of the houses on the right there are selling out to developers but its gonna take forever to do it that way. My opinion is that they should act in the public interest and CPO and widen the road before something bad happens. I'd imagine thats what David Healy means.

average_runner · 13-10-2021 04:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118014427#Comment_118014427

Some good points there

Ferris · 13-10-2021 04:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118013496#Comment_118013496

Yep but they are set well back. If I lived there i'd want the road widened so maybe not as much opposition as you might think.

Incidentally there is a brilliant opportunity to make an offroad cycle track through a housing estate on the left which would go under the train track and come out at the old chapel opposite chapel road but theres a locked gate in the way. It'd cut out the entire narrow section of that road, including the railway bridge (see earlier near miss) and link up with the planned cycle lanes on Chapel road.

sy_flembeck · 14-10-2021 11:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117995690#Comment_117995690

The passenger door got a belt of a hand - hence the reversing

magicbastarder · 18-10-2021 11:10AM

was kinda amusing yesterday to hear my wife turn the air blue at some dangerously dozy motorist in a big BMW SUV who passed us with less than 50cm to spare. and 300m later another SUV driver overtook us into oncoming traffic, earning a long blow of the horn from said oncoming traffic.

was on the road between the side of dublin airport (the harristown junction) and the NCT centre.

Tombo2001 · 18-10-2021 11:15AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118035357#Comment_118035357

Thats a narrow stretch there - 80k road I assume?

magicbastarder · 18-10-2021 11:41AM

i just checked - 60km/h

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4137668,-6.2654325,3a,75y,347.65h,75.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stgplAo6lDLdbEsHFPhg5RQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Tombo2001 · 18-10-2021 12:30PM

Its a narrow stretch. I go out regularly enough to Collinstown to bring the kids to play their GAA games; and I see some parents cycling out there with children. Its a place that - in an ideal world - you should be able to cycle to with kids. Its not far away. But i'm not sure I'd chance it myself.

magicbastarder · 18-10-2021 02:18PM

if you want to get from finglas/ballymun out to the airport or near the airport (i see guys on bikes heading to dublin bus and probably other facilities out there, e.g. keelings) there are not a huge number of options.

i'd suggest the road above over the road out past balseskin, as that's much longer but the traffic there is faster. at least the one past the golf club is less than 500m.

i've no issue with cycling it but my wife doesn't enjoy it as she tops out at 25km/h and is much less experienced on the bike.

magicbastarder · 18-10-2021 02:37PM

yeah, i rarely have issues now, i usually put the boot down on those stretches.

i saw one of the bravest/foolhardiest stunts on the balseskin road a couple of years back. a guy on a motorbike deliberately buzzed an oncoming car which IIRC had just passed me around a blind sweeping bend. he missed the car by probably a foot or less (hard for me to be certain though as he was the other side of the car)

Effects · 29-10-2021 07:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118035336#Comment_118035336

How could you possibly have missed him, he was even wearing hi vis!

Wildly Boaring · 31-10-2021 12:38PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118097031#Comment_118097031

Usually a half blind auld boy that the family assure themselves is fine "sure he only goes to the shop for the paper"

magicbastarder · 31-10-2021 01:59PM

Weird one this morning. Got passed by a group of cyclists and two of them came easily less than a foot from me while passing. Don't think I've ever had a group pass me that close before. And one of them started blowing snotrockets immediately after having passed me so I took an immediate dislike to them.

magicbastarder · 31-10-2021 03:04PM

Also, that happened on the R125 between swords and ashbourne, which is closed, except to local traffic, for works, so it's reasonably wide and very quiet at the moment so it wasn't as if they didn't have more room. And they were riding three abreast on another much narrower road only a few km later.

magicbastarder · 07-11-2021 06:56PM

three close passes today on the roads of NCD. all offaly reg too?

i've been close passed by one of the motorists before too, driving a large (what i think is) mondeo.

bazermc · 07-11-2021 07:09PM

Arsehole this morning in Harold’s cords decided she wanted to pull in at last minute to an on street parking spot. Had to go with her into the stop and onto the footpath.

Was going to stop and ask why she did it but sure wasting me time and trying to watch my blood pressure. I’ll probably be mentioned on Joe Duffy tomorrow for cycling on the footpad.

Wildly Boaring · 07-11-2021 07:50PM

2 yellow regs with the close passes up here.

Always good for them

08-11-2021 10:25AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118134847#Comment_118134847

Driving like that would lead me to moving at a similar speed to these guys in front of that bus for about 5 mins

https://youtu.be/wVQNlyYXqjg?t=105

Dick move? Probably, but maybe would cause the driver to think twice the next time they are presented with a similar situation

ARX · 08-11-2021 11:31AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118132589#Comment_118132589

Happened to me in Ranelagh once (driver passed me and immediately pulled into the parking spot I was just about to pass. When I asked the driver why he didn't wait for me to pass the parking spot he said "I couldn't stop, there were cars behind me".

CramCycle · 08-11-2021 12:05PM

Taxi ran a red in front of my son at the school traffic lights, needless to say no cops were called but I was glad he didn't get out of his car. My son took great joy in relaying the story to my partner including all the words used later that day. He did clarify that i was in the right before repeating all of the words again.

Then yesterday on the way home from the CI AGM, waiting at a red light when a Land Rover discovery just blasted through as a mother and 4yo were crossing, she did not stop but thankfully the mum pushed them both out of the way. Gonna call into the cop shop tonight with the footage.

Don't Chute! · 08-11-2021 01:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118132589#Comment_118132589

What was she doing in Harold’s cords is what I want to know!! 😊

DaveyDave · 08-11-2021 02:55PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118134847#Comment_118134847

That bus stop is so close to the junction it makes zero sense to even try that move. And the light up ahead is 99% likely to be red too so he was never getting anywhere...

bazermc · 08-11-2021 07:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118135986#Comment_118135986

There was no room left in his underpants

nomdeboardie · 13-11-2021 09:11PM

Today, yesterday, and a few days ago I involuntarily found myself yelling “Aaaagggghhhhh!!!” at the top of my lungs as a car passed me with what felt like a couple of inches to spare on Dublin roads (Kill Avenue both directions and DeansgrangeRoad). Then (voluntarily) shouted with less force at the drivers to let them know they got too close as I caught up with them in traffic, just in case they didn’t hear me earlier – think one guy might have as he pulled in to the side of the (already congested Deansgrange) road at an odd angle before I passed by. I don’t know – I suppose it’s possible I’m becoming a too-sensitive triggered snowflake, or maybe the awfulness is real. Tired of being hoarse 😝

Chiparus · 18-11-2021 06:43PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RBOyzwBVPE

Late indication and turn.

Later I was in the cycle lane on Roebuck road at the Clonskeagh Road Junction planning to turn right , a Kilsaran cement truck , no indicators, appears to be turning right , but was getting a better angle for a left kook , luckily I stopped in time.

tnegun · 18-11-2021 08:20PM

They're not really under taking just progressing that said I've been in that position numerous times and probably I wouldn't have continued on the inside of the van until we both passed the junction but that's a learned behavior from being cutup too often. The driver definitely left it way to late to signal which would have helped the cyclist read the situation but he did see her at the last minute but not in his mirror I suspect it was because she drew along side the passenger window so that was "luck" I would say the van is largely at fault.

Effects · 18-11-2021 08:27PM

Driver should be checking their mirrors better.

John_Rambo · 18-11-2021 09:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118187753#Comment_118187753

I can't believe people say these things after watching a clip like that.

magicbastarder · 18-11-2021 10:31PM

this appears to be the point at which the driver starts to indicate; hard to be certain but i'd guess that her front wheel was not far off level with the bumper of the van. that would very much have been in her peripheral vision from what i would suspect.

regarding your comment about being at slow speed; that's not some club cyclist who's able to blast around at 35km/h, that was at slow speed, when a commuting cyclist is clearly going faster than motorised traffic.

the cyclist in the video (not the cyclist recording the video) appears to cover 120m in 20s, which is 21.5km/h; and the motorised traffic is clearly moving more slowly than that.

Wildly Boaring · 18-11-2021 10:39PM

It's slow speed and the van needs to look in mirror.

Mirror, signal, maneuver.

BUT not a hope I'd be going up the inside of a vans blindspot with his indicator on.

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

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