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 drove outbound this evening on a diversion from where I was going to see what it was like.
Passed 4 cars sailing in oblivious to everything. These should have their licences removed for a period of time and made to sit a theory test again! They clearly can not read the signs all over the place and made illegal turns to get there.
I get a softly softly approach in the beginning, but they need to enforce it in time before the busy September period commences.
AGS had no problem having checkpoints the length and breadth of the country stopping people from driving to a park or beach for a walk in Covid. All we’re asking for is one roads policing car literally shooting fish in the barrel.
I’d say they’ll have a Garda stationed there soon enough. As they should in key bus lanes across the city, especially at left filters
Drove northbound from 5 lamps to edges, just after 6pm today.
Counted 22 vehicles heading southbound that shouldn’t have been in that lane. And it’s only going to get worse.
Irish Times article remarkably in favour of the upgrade.
The Irish Times view on diverting motorists to build cycle lanes
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorials/2022/08/09/the-irish-times-view-on-diverting-motorists-to-build-cycle-lanes/
Well cyclists might have slowed down the bus, but they didn't stop it getting through the lights - that would have been the cars/taxis/buses in front that the bus would have caught up with if it hadn't been 'slowed down'.
I cycle this route every day and I was slowed down by two buses yesterday. But only for a couple of hundred metres.
Light sequence inbound at the five lamps could do with being adjusted. Took three or four cycles to get through on the bus this morning. Cyclists slowed down the bus prior to that point. As someone else said its only day two but I might look to travel in a bit earlier or maybe avoid it all together by swapping the 14 for the N4
Not safe, Joe. They could get knocked down by a car.
I don't care if they are going fast or slow, they (and cars) are not supposed to go through a red light.
Richmond Road has needed to be made one-way for years. In essence it is only as wide as that tiny bottleneck between Grace Park Avenue and Grace Park Road. I used to make a detour down/up Clonliffe while cycling as it was too risky.
Monorail?
Are we a society of medieval peasants? Surely we can afford something more than walkways.
how much are travelators per km? i vote we should have a travelator from the city centre to fairview.
I really can't say I see rlj cyclists "blast through" pedestrian lights. I see them proceed through them, but normally cautiously enough not to be a danger to pedestrians, at least on my route in and out of the city.
Presumably they will work on tweaking the traffic light sequences - we are only on day 2, and generally there will always need to be some changes made such as light sequences with a project like this.
No he means me. I'm veering off-topic and already promised not to.
In fairness motorists have killed 136 people in 2021 and cyclists have killed 0 people. The statistics around injuries are even more more skewed towards motorists so personal experience is one thing but is statistically not valid. I've been hit by a deliveroo cyclist when when on my bike. He came out of it worse though and I was told there was no point pursuing him for the cost of replacing my damaged wheel. Still though it's a small problem compared to our road deaths. And this has little to do with the actual thread anyway
You see it all the time on Twitter, people going on about their granny's being hit by bicycles etc. It's all fabricated, I caught one guy a while back saying it was his sister and a quick look at his profile had him saying it was his grandmother a few days before.
I just find it mad that people like you get so annoyed by cyclists but I don't see you demanding motorists are held more accountable when they're the ones killing and maiming daily in Ireland. Look at the Garda Traffic Twitter account, drug and drink driving and all kinds of madness happens all the time yet no one seems to care. Those darn cyclists though being a net benefit to society, grrrrr.
I've never got hit by a car but I got runover by a cyclist who ignored a red light. I just don't get why cyclists don't think they need to obey the rules of the road.
What has that got to do with traffic in Fairview?
There is certainly an issue with road policing whereby pretty much everything is ignored by AGS. However, there is ample evidence showing that drivers cause far more injuries by breaking the laws than anyone else on the road. Nonetheless, this has absolutely nothing to do with traffic in Fairview being temporarily diverted via Ballybough to faccilitate the replacement of some water pipes and other works.
It's easy to generalise like that against some cyclists. Some motorists are also doing this on a just a regular basis, if not more. The risk to pedestrians is considerably more when a motorist does it. For balance, pedestrians are also routinely walking out onto roads in urban areas without looking or thinking.
Meanwhile, where is the enforcement? Its almost totally absent and left to road users to do the right thing. Therefore, all categories or road user do things they should not with little fear of being caught.
I hate to see what it will be like in September with the schools back.
Maybe it can be the start of some introspection as to why on earth so many kids are driven to school...
Sorry
Who? Me?
I thought you were starting a new thread?
And there is the legislation already in place to fine those cyclists on the spot and to issue a court summons if they can’t or won’t pay. Same as there is legislation for speeding (which every motorist does around my residential area) and motorists running reds.
Nothing needs to be changed and if rabid blasting cyclists were actually a problem there’d regularly be Gardai at pedestrian crossings issuing fines
Is it amazing? That's the first story on boards I've seen of someone being hit by a bicycle. I've never been hit by a bicycle.
However the green man on pedestrian crossings is rendered obsolete by city centre cyclists. They will blast through red lights even when there are pedestrians stepping onto the road. You can't obfuscate that with statistics about what car drivers do or do not do.
You do know that billions upon billions have been committed to DART+, Metrolink and Bus Connects. A lot more money than is spent on cycling.
do you get why motorists don't think they need to obey the rules of the road? maybe it's a problem with all road users?
it's amazing how many people have stories of being hit by bikes running red lights on the internet, i've never met anyone who's been hit by a bicycle
Very little of the old rail system would be of any real use. That closed before the 60s was almost entirely closed with good reason. Winding Victorian lines, particularly the narrow gauge systems, couldn't compete with road travel by the 1920s and there's no justification to reopen them. 60s-70s closures are more questionable.
Dunboyne-Navan, the West Cork system, Waterford-Tramore (would probably have been replaced by a light rail line/system if it had survived), the Cork-Limerick direct line... that's about it. Portadown route to Derry in NI. Dunboyne, Ennis, Midleton were obvious to reopen and have been.
"Walking is for peasants" is exactly the mindset that has us in the state we're in today. Dublin is an eminently walkable city. I grew up here and didn't drive until I was over 35. And that was also before the LUAS, Dublin Bikes, bus lanes etc. People are lazy bastards and want the door-to-door solution every time.
Richmond road was a disaster this morning, backed up to Gracepark road. I hate to see what it will be like in September with the schools back. Seems that cars are getting stuck because of the extra cars turning off at Fairview. Ballybough was actually moving ok.
Yes, the problem with buses is that there are too many cars in the way. Blocking bus lanes and disrupting flow. If miraculously all cars disappeared tomorrow, the bus fleet could be expanded and they’d flow smoothly and fast
our bus network has a car problem
The old rail system would cost billions to get up and running again and that is assuming that planning, land grabs, etc aren't an issue.
Anyhow, this has little to do with Farview & N. Strand both of which have a train lines which are likely to serve many who commute by car through those areas.
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