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.
Actually, is it just the lycra wearing cyclists you have an issue with? You kind of have a thing for men in lycra, right?
They were recording people breaking the red lights and blocking the yellow box at Blackhall place, no action was taken and the camera switched off, nothing more said, so sounds like politicians decided it wasn't a good idea, even if it did immediately improve road safety. This was done after a woman was killed by a car doing exactly that on Jervis Street. But the important thing was nobody was fined.
The one at Blackhall Place had the highest incidence of cars driving into the Luas. It was set up to try stop that, right?
I think that was the case yes, bout 7 orn8 years ago now
If traffic light and bus lane cameras are being held back because politicians are afraid of losing votes that is serious cowardice, particularly when they could just point the blame at the NTA or the RSA. And what's the point of either of these 2 bodies if they can't organise something as simple as a bloody camera to make the roads safer for all.
Only the Cnuts that feel that red lights don't apply to them.
Most drivers in cars in that case. 😂
Don't forget those jaywalking pedestrians
Pedestrians were around before cars, so that always have priority over cars.
Considering almost all of the pedestrian crossings in the affected works area won't even activate when it's safe to do so, if a button isn't pressed sufficiently in advance, should tell you all you need to know about the habitualised jaywalking that now takes place.
Is it some sort of punitive or petty behaviour by Dublin city council against those who don't realise someone has to press a button? Or do they think the noise they make really disturbs the residents who live beside North Strand Fire Station??
wow it's really starting to look good now. I can't believe there were absolute c**ts trying to get this stopped. We need to stop listening to these braindead morons.
Looking good...
Any sign on @Larbre34's prediction of a rollback happening yet?
I wonder how the pedestrian crossing lights will function. It would make sense to be flashing orange for cyclists and pedestrians.
Only turning red / green when a vulnerable user wants to cross (or someone presses the button of course!).
What an absolutely scandalous waste of money, this will inevitably be factored into the cost of all upcoming cycling projects now. I reckon this will cause a major slowdown in the rollout of cycling facilities in the city.
I don't see the issue with a modern city providing infrastructure which was specifically requested by the visually impaired community.
Assuming the users of this forum are not visually impaired, then I don't think we're qualified to dismiss their requests and needs.
Why is there a signal controlled crossing for a single direction 1.7m cycle lane? When you cross that then how do you cross the 5 lane wide road on front of you?
Is that a serious question? It's aim is to get to the bus stop, not to cross the road.
During the morning rush hour, those lanes will be packed full of cyclists doing all sorts of speeds. The crossing is there to assist the elderly and the visually impaired.
I struggle to understand why this is such an issue.
Are you saying that makes breaking red lights ok?
Because others do it?
The whole lot of them should be fined. We either have rules or we do not.
There'll be even more cars going even faster across a much wider road all day long
The speed will be throttled by the slower cyclists to be honest. But the volume will probably need the light to enable pedestrians to cross alright.
Not at all. I'm just making light of the usual people, frothing at the mouth, thinking about men in tight lycra. They always give a free pass to cars breaking red lights, and ignore the hundreds of deaths caused by drivers breaking the law, on a regular basis.
What's your point? The pedestrian lights we're discussing are from the pedestrian path, across the cycleway, to the bus island. They do not continue across the main road.
As a country we are great at making rules. Actually enforcing them now..... that is another issue
Incredibly these designs work perfectly well in London and guess what, that’s without traffic lights.
There needs to be some common sense here.
The point is there's little opportunity to cross the road but a full signalled crossing of a 1.7m cycle lane
But do you know for a fact that they work well in London for visually impaired people?...
Does this community feel included in how we design our streets and infrastructure?...
It’s amazing how many sudden converts emerge to support people with disabilities when cycle facilities are announced. I often wonder how those people never emitted a peep about pavement parking for years and for today.
The road engineers at DCC clearly have a fetish for poles!
There is a new apartment building development completed a few months ago up on Griffith Avenue. Single new entrance, been open a few months and relatively few cars enter and exit, pretty quiet. Well this week 14 new poles has appeared around this entrance!
Not complete yet, but I assume all these poles are for traffic lights. Complete and utter madness, totally unnecessary for such a relatively quiet entrance.
Would have been perfectly fine as a non lighted zebra crossing like those that have been popping up recently.
While it is very good to see new infrastructure being built like this cycle path, there needs to be a bit more balance with the need for such hard infrastructure everywhere. Sensible mixed use works fine all over Europe.
Then you have a certain disability campaigner arguing against anything on 2 wheels and arguing FOR footpath parking
that bloke is a scumbag
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