So the balls-up has started since last night which makes Fairview from clontarf to Edges corner a single lane with bollards down the centre.
This will be a permanent feature and works will take 21 months.
I think this needs to be settled in a street race, at rush hour. After the kids are back to school.
Coming soon......Fast & Furious Fairview
just towel off when you get to work, and spray underarm. Nae bother.
I used to strip to my boxers to cool down, but I've let out some of my space to other people, so not appropriate anymore. 😂
To solve, for all of this, is to buy a motorbike.
Problem solved. Be grand.
This cycle lane project in Fairview is a really good idea to try & address this problem of cyclists trying to compete with other forms of road traffic in the area. I have both walked & taken the bus in that area on a few occasions before. There are areas around that spot are both dangerous for both cyclists and pedestrians mainly due to the amount of cars that park outside the shops that are located right across from Fairview Park.
They could use the other cycle lane, the one through the park - many do. No cars parked there.
The plans look good though. I just hope these lanes will be used and traffic lights respected on the route.
I always think of the “buried balls deep in …..” joke then I see this thread.
Motorists can also use all the other roads that are provided for them, like Griffith Avenue, or Alfie Byrne road.
It wasn't a joke - it was said by a listener live on radio!
That's fine inbound (if they would re-segregate the cycle and pedestrian lanes through the park as the shared space is a mess). For outbound though would you expect all cyclists to cross at Annesley Bridge into Fairview Park, then exit before Westwood to cross back over to Howth Road / Malahide Road / Clontarf Road? And what if someone wants to stop into Marino Library or any of the shops along the route?
The segregated route didn't work all that well, as pedestrians would often walk on both sections anyway. One of the reasons they mixed it was because of a pedestrian being hit by a cyclist in the cycle lane side.
Yep, it's right by the pedestrian overpass and yet people on this thread say sure it's a grand auld lane. :rolleyes:
Tbh the way I would phrase that is cyclists would cycle on both sides, on a divided path that had only intermittent and un-obvious signs as to which side was the correct one. But the reality is that due care will always be needed by cyclists on it, it goes right past a busy playground and kids kicking a ball about.
I agree, for the time being the "mixed use" designation makes the most sense.
I sat outside Javaholics around 5pm this evening and realised if the Gardai set up camp there they would issue hundreds of fines for vehicles driving in the bus lane. Funnily enough a Garda van drove up the bus lane and there wasn't a private vehicle in front or behind them for a couple of minutes.
Gardai won't enforce fining cars in the bus lane. Even if they saw them, they wouldn't do anything about it.
There was a guard tackling someone across from the Spar yesterday morning. More of that please. Another up outside Marino College would catch another lot.
Tackling? What had the person done?
I'd imagine he means Gardaí stopping motorists speeding and in the bus lane.
Jordan proves why cyclists need to be segregated from motorists
Those lads just love showing how stupid they are.
Hopefully the Gardai will send this driver a €60 fine and 2 points on his drivers licence...
i doubt any fines have ever been levied over people posting tiktok videos, to be fair.
Guess this belongs here in your Fairview thread ?
Should C.P. capacity be greatly restricted for the duration of the Fairview works ?
Hard luck to anyone who uses the drumcondra bus corridor on a usual basis...
Not sure why this is an issue now, the council stopped the coaches parking on Alfie Byrne road years ago. In fact, the Alfie Byrne road location was never decided as an "official" location, with the Garda and the council just letting it happen rather than anyone making the decision to let coaches park there.
Once enough people complained about cyclists being forced out into the road, then the council asked the coach companies to stop parking there, which they completely ignored, so the council asked the Garda to stop them from parking there, which the Garda completely ignored. Eventually the council had to put those ugly plastic bollards the length of the road there.
Didn't the Dublin cycling group do a very public blocking of buses parking there too? Maybe I'm mistaken
Yup! One poor volunteer even suffered a terrible but short-term injury in front of a bus which stopped the driver from driving it onto the cycle lane 😄
Yeah, nothing was really done before I Bike Dublin held a protest back in 2019.
That was it!
You have to love action like that
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