Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

We'll see I guess. It got overwhelming support in public consultation, and now has gone through this scored process in consultation with the businesses. They're running out of justification to actually stop it I would suggest.

I'm pretty sure I saw a Garda car with lights and sirens passing stationary traffic on the Blackrock bypass in Dublin using the cycle lane (between the two shopping centres).

Sorry for the mis-oriented pic. Even sideways it's obvious what a **itshow this is.

This country would sh1t its pants if parking laws were enforced.

Shane Ross once came banging on my door after dark looking for my vote. When I started on the non-enforcement of parking laws he nearly fell over himself trying to get away. He got Stepaside Garda station reopened and yet there are cars and lorries illegally parked on the footpath a stone's throw from the station. Same in Dundrum where there are cars parked on the footpath across the road from the Garda station. I'm sure the Gardai are great at keeping a lid on gangland murders but they're useless for traffic enforcement.

This is misleading: the 2,100 cyclists should be compared with (a) the number of people in the 1,400 cars plus (b) the number of buses and the number of people in them (probably quite large) plus (c) the number of delivery vehicles.

Anyhow the geniuses in Grange Road don't seem to follow any sort of logic.

The average occupancy of a car in Dublin city centre is about 1.25, so the route would still be carrying more people by bike than car. But buses carry most people into the city centre(*), so I'd be surprised if buses didn't tip the balance firmly in favour of motorised travel.

But then again, if you look at it from the point of view of sustainable travel, private motor vehicles would look even worse.

(*) EDIT: I mean, buses are the most important single transport category for carrying people into the city centre. Or were before covid.

I don't think it's at all misleading - the stat was cars v bikes, not all motorised transport v bike. Not one of those 5 lanes is a dedicated bus lane at that intersection.

I was on a bus down Lesson Street yesterday evening - it took the guts of 15 minutes (valuable and rare) drinking time to get to the Green. It wasn't bikes or buses causing the issue.

The Word Matters (*) podcast dealt with fewer vs less a while ago. They said that it seemed to originate with Robert Baker in the late 1700s. He expressed a preference for "fewer" when dealing with countable things (a preference rather than a rule) and over time it hardened into a rule.

They also said that there are a few cases that should be clear cut "fewer" scenarios (some cases like "less than ten dollars" are explained by saying it's equivalent to "less than the sum of ten dollars"), but most people use "less", such as "an essay of x words or less".

EDIT: I originally wrote "Words Matter podcast", but that's a different podcast.

Certainly the vans from Heatco are regularly blocking footpaths and cycle lanes at that location

Sometimes councils give the space away for free, SDCC has ran a "trail" for 30 mins free parking in Rathfarnham "village" (I use that term lightly) since 2016. Obviously if motorists need more time they can just go to the ticket machine again and get another free 30 mins hence the system is abused. Its turned the village into a glorified car storage facility when in fact it could be a far more charming place to spend time.

How dare you question my right to post here? I also cycle in my 70s, but there are loads of people who can't. And I wish you luck on a wet and windy December day.

I'm fed up with intolerant and self-righteous cyclists. (Nothing wrong with tolerant cyclists, otherwise I wouldn't have complained about the anti-cyclist carry-on on Grange Road)