Clontarf to City Centre Cycle & Bus Priority Project discussion (renamed)

Is there a worse "village" than Killester village? It is everything that is wrong with the carcentric city of Dublin. An absolute free for all on footpaths and absolutely zero public realm. I've never even heard of anything being done to improve it but you know they'd go mental if any positive changes were proposed.

Also the Supervalu has the worst bike parking facilities I've ever seen.

And the corner outside the washing machine repair place is a free for all for parking, and cars drive along the footpaths and park on them on both sides. It's amazing it has gone on for so long.

I counted 6 cars parked half on footpath on double yellows outside the oblates this morning, most of them facing into traffic as well. Another car parked just before those useless plastic bollards opposite Tesco, meaning our bus (heading staight towards Kilmainham/Con Colbet Road) had to wait for the long line of traffic turning right onto Emmet Road before being able to head straight as no room to pass the parked car partially blocking the lefthand lane. A Quashqai then parked in the bus stop outside the school before the left onto Sarsfield Road as well. That stop is incidentally used by elderly folks in the main as well in my experience. F*eck them I suppose, Little Sorcha must be dropped directly to the school gates at all costs on a bright and sunny morning!

Inchicore is a joke.

Well as all the cyclists are giving opinions on car drivers . . . . . here is my opinion (of them). I drove in through Fairview at 10.30 this morning on my motorbike. Only one of several cyclists stopped at red lights, most continued on and around pedestrians crossing the road. I watched one chap break five red lights (he was actually quicker than me on my bike as I stopped at red lights) and he finally stopped at IFSC / Quays lights due to traffic. Nuts, absolute nuts. Someone will get injured (pedestrian or cyclist) and we will read about it in the media. I did not witness one car drive through red lights.

Oh by the way, I went in through Nth Strand and as expected there was no enforcement.

Self righteous cyclists now proclaiming that they saw several cars drive through red lights may post below. 🚲️

There is a "difference of opinion" between DCC & Garda management presently so enforcement is light touch.

I regularly see cars run through red lights, perhaps cyclists do it more often, not sure. As for the claim that cyclists doing so is dangerous, well yes but last I checked car drivers achieved a whopping 136 kills on the road last year and cyclists got 0 so I'd say we're a long way off Dutch cities we're fast cyclists are the No. 1 Road safety concern. Let's deal with the real threat first and the imaginary one later.

Cars break red lights, pedestrians break red lights and bikes break red lights. We all know which will come off worse in those situations.

Now can we please move on.

Had another review of the plans today. It struck me that the separation between the cycle track and road is to be 50mm with no bollards planned.

I'm just wondering how that will work out in practice, at the moment the kerb is 100mm high and the footpaths from the 5 lamps all the way to the woodenbridge are littered with cars despite ample on street parking and side streets with mostly free on street parking that is under subscribed at all times.

To protect the investment they'll have to put plastic bollards up along the whole route when it opens.

I was in Stoneybatter yesterday, they've completely resurfaced the main part of the street there so temporary road markings and the bollards that recently protected the Northbound cycle lane are gone, sure enough, cycle lane was completely full of parked cars. Legal parking a few metres north was empty.

North Strand is one location where there probably are too many bus stops.

Northbound there are four stops within 650m from the Five Lamps to Annesley Bridge, and southbound three within 550m.

The ideal spacing is 400m between stops, so they could certainly remove some of them.

The detailed plans are on this page (general layout towards the bottom):

https://www.dublincity.ie/residential/transportation/active-travel/clontarf-city-centre-project/drawings-and-visualisations

There are 850m between Five Lamps and Annesley Bridge and only 3 stops. Stop 518 northbound under the rail bridge is only used for bus 53 which turns left before Annesley to head east towards the port. Maybe this has changed recently but no other bus ever stopped there.

In either case they are removing 2 stops northbound (518 and 4384) and there are now 600m between stops. I don't think this is good for North Strand. I've lived there for 7 years FYI

If you consider someone living deep in the side streets of North Strand / Ballybough, they will now have up to 6/700m to walk to get to a bus stop