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.
To be fair, the Cycling Forum is right up there.
I guarantee there'll be private cars back on this route by the end of the month, certainly before the schools return in earnest. What Ray Shah correctly refers to the sh1t show will be completely intolerable and unmanageable.
It could well be that some motorists just keep driving the route anyway, and once a few do it, everyone will.
I mean, intending to bring all in-bound private traffic back down Portland Row to the Five Lamps, while intending to give enough priority to the Strand to keep the buses moving on time. **** off and pull the other one.
It'll be back to the drawing board, again, for the keystone cops of project management, Dublin City Council.
lol
certainly not due to marty whelan's tweet, the reaction to that is about as violent as woodstock (the original one!)
You never get tired of disappointment, clearly.
I think the Germans might have a word for that....
I've just now read, that any RESIDENTS and businesses who live in any of the many side roads and cul-de-sacs between Fairview and the Five Lamps (27 in all!!) and who wish to drive southbound, towards the City, will be forced to drive northbound and use one of only four or five cross streets, to rejoin the new chaos through Ballybough! And half of those cross streets look like this anyway!
This whole insanity is going to create so much chaos, danger and economic damage its inconceivable.
Can't wait till the first episode of Liveline after this shyt lands. Holy War won't even cut it, not least because its Fateen Duffy's own route to work in Raidió Éireann 😂
I daresay Paschal Donohue will have DCC straightened out within the day!
Why would Joe Duffy drive that route to work, you aren't making any sense?
The dangers so far have been caused by impatient drivers, speeding, breaking lights and using the bus lanes. Zero regard for other road users, and other drivers just trying to get to and from work while obeying the rules.
And why would the minister for finance be the one to straighten out DCC?
All those roads are within a couple of km of the city centre and will have a plethora of buses passing by their front door on a dedicated bus lane not being hindered by car traffic. They'll be OK.
This is just the kind of obtuse response that turns people against these projects.
'Be grand sure' is not a policy.
Because he lives in Clontarf and works in Donnybrook ffs.
Donohoe will act on it, because he's a senior cabinet Minister and a TD for the area. And he will do so, because if he doesn't, he'll be blamed for the consequences and have to find himself a new job after the 2025 election. And Paschal is on a decent trajectory to be Taoiseach, so if he has to slap the City Council around a bit to stay on track, he'll do it without hesitation.
Lol, unlikely
Good grief there's some hysterical posts about a local traffic diversion. As if that's not been a regular feature of city life the world over for 100 years.
I'll take a guess that you are a south sider, with a poor grasp of how to get around Dublin, if you think Joe Duffy gets to RTE via the Five Lamps. Do you know where the Five lamps is?
Are you implying Clontarf to Donnybrook via North Strand Road is some off-the-beaten-track way of going? The only other way I can think of is the EastLink, which is what I assume you’re thinking of too. Some people hate tolls!
You can go Alfie Byrne road and take the Tom Clarke bridge to avoid the tolls.
I'm implying that someone who lives in Clontarf, and makes almost half a million euro profit a year, doesn't care about paying a toll, and won't be taking a longer route to work by driving through Ballybough.
Duffy works two hours a day and will be travelling off peak both directions in his old school jag. He'll be grand.
Unenforceable just like the current "Bus" lane along Fairview park 🤣
Yeah, it’ll surely be abused if current driving is anything to go by.
From the article: There will be community plazas along the route and additional trees in purpose built tree pits, as well as the greenway along the Tolka river, and a really, really high quality, high class cycle route, so in the long run that will we are doing will benefit locals.
Would you prefer that Dublin has no new infrastructure built? People complain all the time about Irish water and the wastage in the system because of the old network. This project is improving the water infrastructure in this area. It is also improving the bus lane infrastructure. Its not just a cycle lane. What is your alternate proposal?
Yeah just like the suicidal cyclists 🙄
Look at this clown
Obviously there was no notice whatsoever for this. Someone came up with the plans last week and starting work on it next week, thus taking EVERYONE by surprise (if only things WERE that efficient)
And now you have the scaremongering catastrophising karens out in force. They are of course traffic management experts, covid experts & economic experts. Their "expertise" tells you that EVERY person living in the houses on these small streets has a car and EVERY ONE of them will be leaving their house at 8am each morning and ALL will want to go into Dublin city.
Karens and their male counterparts are best ignored because it is very very rare for anything that a karen catastrophises ever actually happens
Another idiot this morning breaking the pedestrian lights at speed from between a bus and a car and almost broadsiding me at North Strand Church. The vast majority of cyclists understand what a red light means - are these Eddy Merckx wannabes mentally impaired?
Really like the small walls they have put in at Alfie Byrne road. Very nice work. They are going to look lovely when all the railings are cleared away. Not seeing an awful lot of progress on the Five Lamps to Connolly bit though. Perhaps it is all underground.
He is no danger to anyone other than himself. This is the bit that people fail to understand.
The car in the bus lane? Some clown alright.
Go hang your ballix off it?
Spoken like someone who has never cycled OR driven that route before. You do realise we were talking about making the journey during rush hour, yeah? It would take nearly 40 mins to drive that route after 5pm.
It's not a bus lane
It most definitely is the bus lane. The lane to the right of that is for all other traffic.
This is exactly the type of situation that the new cycle lane will stop. This guy shouldn't be filtering like this, but the current cycle lane there has always been poorly designed and not respected by drivers.
What are the operating times of the "bus lane"?
I just had a look at the Facebook Irish Times article, bloody hell some of the comments. This one I couldn't help responding to.
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