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

Not until I passed him he never even glanced to his right

Yeah that's the one, I don't think any position would have put them off attempting to pass I wasn't far off the middle coming around the bend and they kept going for it despite the traffic ahead slowing/stopping!

Yeah your probably right. I've been lucky there and haven't had any issues.

Got buzzed again by the red intel bus coming onto the N4 at exit three. Need to start grabbing regs and confronting them while I'm on me break.

The article is poor, do we know did the judge view/accept the video evidence?

I thought this was particularly being a pr1ck "The barrister acknowledged the complainant for what he termed “that dissertation.”"

I refer to the guidance of 1m in a 50kmph zone and 1.5m in an 80kmph.

I know distance is difficult to prove but there has to be some definition of what makes a pass unsafe. It cannot be left ambiguous. Barristers will love that. Define inconvenience and it will be different things to different people. The Road Traffic Act is a joke of an act anyway. Its long due an overhaul. Maybe is will be after the rail link to Dublin Airport is built. 😁

And of course, some councils have bike signs with 1.5m underneath. Are these as meaningful as the speed limit signs that motorists cannot see/read/decipher?

Yep.

Had one on Monday, Oncoming car, continuous white line, car speeds past me in a 50 zone, and close from behind. Oncoming car has to stop and it beeps at overtaking car across the white line. Irony is ights are red 100m upahead. No other cars on coming. Could have waited with no impact. I get there and he is first car.

I engage driver and ask them to please slow down and not overtake close. He said he was driving quite safely but had to speed up to overtake me due to the oncoming car. I left him in his perfectly warped reality. It would be pointless to begin explaining to him what is wrong with his version of safe or considerate.

Not me but I was driving home on the R149 from Clonee direction on Thursday evening, some clown in a jeep tried passing a cyclist but ended up just going around the bend alongside the cyclist at the Stirling Road junction. Couldn't believe it.

I clocked the guy going just over 40kph while I was waiting to pass so he was going at a good pace. Traffic has been heavier than usual there recently, I wouldn't dream of going anywhere near that road at 7pm on a weekday!

Bit of a vent, cycling into work this morning, waiting at a right hand filter for the light to turn green and as its about to change, I notice in my right hand side the van essentially moving forward to attempt to either A, right hook me or B cut me off, anyway I let him off, and just gave the 'what the ****' hands, to which I noticed then even the van behind was gesturing the same to me, like 'what the **** was that about'.

I have resigned myself to not interacting with morons but this one I had to have a word with what the **** he was at.

Anyway, a non aggressive interaction with the driver asking what that was about, to which he mumbled some words, and what was my problem. To which I replied my problem was 'I am waiting at the top of the lights and you just decided to cut me off', to which he replied, which is a new one to me 'Am I here to serve you?' to which I replied, 'No, but you can have some respect for other people'.

It won't happen again anyway, next time at that junction/filter, I will be taking the full lane, end of story.

I am also noticing a serious increase in the amount of cycle lanes blocked by trucks/vans, and I mean actually blocking them where it puts you in an awful dangerous merge situation. I think its time to hand over to the councils non intercept offences as AGS are clearly not able to enforce them.

I also understand that deliveries need to be made, but the clear lack of any logical thinking by the driver is annoying, the logic is 'I best not obstruct traffic but its okay to obstruct the flow of a cycle lane'. When actually the safer option and the less obstructive option is in fact to impede more on the flow of traffic than the flow of cycle traffic, as majority of the time, they are actually still impeding on the traffic flow, as an example, parked half in a cycle lane and half into the bus lane/road, so a merge situation is developed anyway for normal traffic.

Far from ideal as you still have to deal with traffic coming along Kevin Street, although there's more of a chance that cars are stopped if lights are green on Patrick Street. I wonder what a properly designed layout would look like here.

Regards Westland Row, last time I cycled that around November 2021 it was fully sticked up along the lane? Why did they back track? Not that it made any difference, you'd vans that would fit into the cycle lane and park in it. It would force you to take the entire lane used for traffic.

A Green TD over the transport ministry and he is pissing literally everyone right off, I feel at times your putting your life in your hands at times on the bike. The standard of driving is really really bad, let alone the utter contempt of law/rule breaking is something else.

Then the councils installing cycle lanes are just grabbing low hanging fruit where its not only already safe, they are actually making it unsafe with what they are installing.