Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

That truck will not fit through the arch that leads to the rear carpark of the SuperValu. What else are they supposed to do to conduct their business? The Council should have been more concious of the reality on the ground.

Have you never noticed that here in ireland many many people still havnt grasped the walk/cycle left, pass right thing. Have a go at trying to run a lap of Marlay Park sometime, its a real eye opener.

Cycle on the left, walk/run on the right is the rule.

Musgrave delivery truck will not fit in the 2 car loading bay across from Supervalu Ranelagh quite apart from the fact that loading bay usually occupied.

If you have ever used the Supervalu car park you will know the  trouble there is in getting  a turn in the very oddly shaped car park never mind negotiate the wall separating car park from residential lane if another car waiting to come out when you go in.  Agree with Labre, the council should have been more conscious of this.

What solution do you think SuperValu should have arrived at short of drone delivery?

That’s an odd question as I did not mention exemption from law but I do know that I see a council not fully reconciling consequences of putting in cycle lane without provision for allowing deliveries to a supermarket that provides a service to a huge population and many of them elderly who don’t cycle

Cycle lane was not 24 hr in 2009 and it is very dismissive to suggest that the fact that there is an elderly cohort living around Ranelagh that need a supermarket within walking distance is a lazy argument

And how does a delivery truck turn when it goes down a ‘dead end’

Has anyone communicated with Super Valu and / or the council over this damage to public property and illegal parking?

Don't overtake it anyway, or you'll never win a National Championship... The more I think about this "solution" the more it's no solution at all. Apart from whether it's appropriate when people are burying their loved ones, a 2 way cycle track is inevitably going to be blocked by cars at funerals.

You mis-read my post; I didn't posit 'the elderly argument' I stated that Supervalu Ranelagh provides a service to a huge population many of whom are elderly and don't cycle, that is a fact not an 'elderly argument'.

Exactly where did I 'shoehorn' in the 'elderly argument' many times? Again you mis-read my post; I didn't suggest cycle way impedes access to store - I clearly stated Supervalu was an important service in the middle of Ranelagh and in that context the Council should have worked closely with Supervalu to provide a solution to deliveries when cycle lane changed to 24 hr.