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.
Miraculously the city hasn't ceased to function because of the water pipe works in Fairview, who'd have thunk it?
So far it is working fairly well inbound, apart from the bus lane skippers and the other idiots pretending they don't see the big right turn only arrow at the junction with the Malahide Road and then pulling into the path of the people who were in the correct lane all along. It keeps moving anyway.
Outbound is messier due to something strange going on with the lights at the Malahide Road, but that has been the same for a while before this started. I think the sequence seems to get disrupted after the pedestrian button is pressed. There are a few ways to bypass it outbound, so it may not even be as bad as it could have been.
Perhaps some of them are honest mistakes? I was heading in that lane and missed that it had changed to right only. My partner told me, as it had changed while I was abroad, and I indicated to move to the left lane.
Local facebook group were complaining about an increase in parking enforcement in Clontarf. Which of course lead back to it being just a means to pay for the cycle lanes. 😂
I think I know that group, they claim on one hand that this project costs 'billions' and then on the other hand, 4 or 5 €80 parking fines are going to cover the cost.
Anyway good progress being made. Hopefully work on the fairview to clongriffen section can begin in 2023 and we'll have the first serious urban cycling route in the country by mid decade
I can't see them getting planning permission for the Malahide Road if they have to take parts of gardens etc.? Are there actual plans to build a segregated bike lane all that way? That would be amazing.
Then again I never thought they'd have the balls to put bike lanes in Fairview either.
I think they'll get planning alright and that they'll get it built to clongriffen. Yes it's a continuous cycle route with a small section that's a shared 'quietway'
However other bus connects routes that go through areas where judges and friends of judges live will certainly be stopped by a judicial review. I'm thinking Rathfarham and Blackrock
You mean Schrodinger's cycle lanes.
...Pavlovs cycle lanes would the be the ones he'd feed and ring a bell at the same time , to reinforce behaviour.
That used to be part of my commute on the bike! The bus drivers were unbelievably badly behaved. Anyone that said anything to them was met with a barrage of abuse including locals walking dogs, pal of mine got his phone slapped out of his hand.
While I can see the CPO section being stopped, I can't see traffic restrictions being overturned if local access is maintained. Oh well, time will tell...
The Clongriffen route doesn't need much CPO.
Actually a lot of the time where there is CPO in the bus connects plans its to accommodate a turning lane for cars, a design which is non compliant in DMURS anyway so not being able to CPO certain bits would ironically force a redesign that would greatly reduce capacity for cars.
Maybe you can pick up some bargains as early Christmas presents as you cycle by....
Cyclists won't be able to avail of the offer as they don't stop while passing. Only motorists from Goatstown, visiting during rush hour.
Already covered in the thread. Had advertising their closing down sale for retirement before anything started. But papers don't refuse ink; and digital news sites don't refuse anything.
I could be wrong, but he's never once mentioned the works on the new water main, or sewage improvements.
sounds like a man unable to admit his business is just no longer viable.
Do you think that his stated focus on older customers might be a factor in his business difficulties?
I wonder where his customers are going to park at his new job?
Well played Andrew, got a good laugh from that. My old man knows him to see, I must get him to ask this question for you.
https://extra.ie/2022/05/11/news/jeweller-shutting-shop-cycle-lane
I just feel sorry for the man, that's all. I'm sure he won't be the only one feeling a loss of trade, and while there may have been other factors involved, it sounds like this was the straw that broke the camels back. Who wants to change jobs at age 60?
As an aside, I didn't know Applebys was closed? but then again, nowhere I can park near there. 🤷♀️
The other factors were clearly everything. This is an attempt to get PR for a closing down sale.
He even did media stuff about retirement well before anything started
Is there a link to anything? Would be a handy one to keep in the back pocket for whenever anyone brings this up into the future as a reason against bike lanes
Same not-a-paper that then went ahead and put in an article claiming it had to do with the cycle lane!
That Dublin Live article gives no reason whatsoever on why the owner finally decided to close his doors, after 42 years. It also doesn't mention retirement.
The other article at least has quotes from the owner, including ‘Before this happened, I wouldn’t have even thought of closing, never.'
Seems odd to me that a man who decides to close his business and retire, making two others unemployed, then takes on a new job at age 60. Sounds to me like someone who wanted to remain working.
But whatever.
He did an interview last week, where he talked about a customer in his 80s, who died at Christmas, saying he wouldn't be getting on a bike.
Yeah, pretty sure dead people don't cycle. All his customers seem to be dying off. That's his problem, not a cycle lane.
I don't blame him. He just doesn't want the stress of running a dying business. Much easier to see out his days working for someone else. Clocking off at 5pm and heading home without a worry.
Well, if his business was dying, then this was the nail in the coffin.
I can't imagine the stress of taking on a new job at 60 after running my own business for 42 years.
Do you really think a clickbait site like Dublin Live would not have mentioned a controversial excuse given the opportunity?
Why is it stressful? My Dad took a new job when he retired at 60. He was happy enough. It is hardly hard graft manual labour he is doing
I can't answer that. I don't know your Dad, maybe hes not the type who finds change stressful.
Look, I'm not going to waste my time going down a rabbit hole on this one, or answering stupid questions.
You can take what you want from both articles, and I'll take what I want. I believe the man when he says installing the cycle lane was a factor in his decision to close down his business.
Nothing more to add.
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