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.
That didn't stop the bullshit discussion about it though with him attributing the closure principally on the works which hadn't even started at that point.
The building just recently went sale agreed as well.
The "male" thing is so weird lol
This post isnt really worth responding to.More entitled male cyclist bullying,shut others up by all means possible.
I am not the person you referred to, its possible for more than one person to disagree with you, I know you find this impossible to believe as you live in an echo chamber inhabited only by your fellow male cyclists.
As far as I remember there was legal parking opposite Duggan jewellers in Fairview.(on the park side)
In any event that jewllers shop was there for decades so the owner had as much right to express his opinion as others cycling through twice a day.
And I dont think you should be sneering at any named individual,that jeweller provided years of excellent service to the people of Fairview and any loss of small independent retailers is a pity.
pretty sure you can still park right outside that jewelers and it hasn't been affected at all yet
I'm now convinced that you are Damian Duggan who used to own the jewellers in Fairview that had to close because a cycle lane would be opening and your customers weren't going to be able to park illegally and run across the six lane road any more? I think you now sit there resentful of people on two wheels and make spend your time making up crap to troll internet users with.
But maybe I'm mistaken.
Is that the best you can come up with.
you're a troll, i can't believe people are engaging with you still
A full grown adult male travelling at speed is going to cause me a lot of injury hence I will move out of his way. As I said luckily I am not blind but if I was I would be campaigning for lights on the Fairview cycle lane too.
The blind community felt cyclists were causing them so much difficulty they had to mobilise themselves to demand this safety measure be installed.
You have already admitted you go through red lights all the time so your behaviour is causing difficulty for other road users. How does the blind person know its you who doesnt stop at red lights coming or another cyclist who does obey the rules.
And do you really have to use coarse aggressive language in every post, can you not see its this incivility here and in your cycling behaviour that puts people off cycling.
that's such bullsh*t. You have to run to get out of the way of cyclists. Do you think the cyclist doesn't come off bad when they hit things or something? Or they're just going to knock you out of the way like a skittle?
A man fell over a kerb, cool story. There were kerbs all over the city before a few segregated cycle lanes were put in.
Cyclists cause visually impaired people the most difficulty... f**king lol. There's only one thing killing and maiming people on our roads and footpaths, it isn't cyclists. All footpaths in Dublin are covered in illegally parked cars. But yes cyclists are the problem.
Yeah I walk/cycle/drive that multiple times a day, there's not enough traffic coming in and out of the apartments to warrant a signal to stop traffic for cars, and pedestrians crossing the road could have been managed with zebra crossings. I've 5 year old kids and feel that's overkill for saafety.
Speaking of fetish for poles, this week they've started planting probably a hundred of these 3 ft poles every few meters along side of the road. Again, it's not solving any problem that I see. There's some poor parking at school collections, but nothing that warrants hundreds of poles.
See image here, left side of the road has the poles I'm talking about, right side had a nice low fence, now has the same poles as other side of the road https://goo.gl/maps/cbYeuEjBSSnBJadY8
Because it is simply unnecessary. If a person is crossing the cycle path, cyclists will simply stop, just like a car on an uncontrolled zebra crossing. It actually doesn't matter if the person is visually impaired or not.
I actually laughed when i read this, cyclists sometimes dont even stop at pedestrian crossings, I regularly have to jump out of their way. Sometimes they go around the pedestrian but its not unusual for pedestrian to have to run to avoid speeding cyclist.
Many of the new cycling lanes have kerbs that elderly people have to climb over to get to the footpath, I saw one elderly man fall backwards into traffic recently as he fell backwards, luckily he wasnt hit by a car. They cyclists speed down these cycle paths and when challenged and I do it regularly, I am told this is a cycle path and you shouldnt be on it.
Well until I can somehow fly over the cycle path to get to the footpath I have to actually be on the cycle lane.
I have full vision so I will see the cyclist bearing down on me, the blind person wont until its too late.
Id say if you asked visually impaired people which category of road user causes them most difficulty I would say they would say cyclists, hence their request that lights be put on this cycle lane.
"There seems to be some assumption that Europe has everything perfect. Far from it."
Places like Amsterdam and Copenhagen are vastly ahead of us in terms of urban design. It isn't even close. Of course the US and Americas are FAR worse. Maybe somewhere like Japan does some things better, but it is a very different culture and on a totally different scale to mid sized European cities.
"I've no idea how these light controlled junctions work in practice (bus islands) and I don't know anyone from the visually impaired community, but why is it so hard to contemplate that this infrastructure genuinely makes their lives easier?"
But the problem is you are focusing on an area that relatively speaking is of very little danger to a person who is visually impaird, when the rest of the city is terribly designed for them and vastly more dangerous.
If you want to make the city safer for them and other pedestrians, then frankly we should be putting automatic red light cameras on every junction and issuing automatic fines and penalty points for red light jumping cars. Go up to Grace Park Road, where there is a school for visually impaired people and you can watch cars blow through red lights at the junctions there almost running down folks daily. Hell one day I watched a car mount the footpath and drive a distance along it to get around some traffic in front of this school! Complete madness.
Less cars and more people cycling and walking and more mixed use actually makes the urban environment safer and easier to use for people with disabilities.
There seems to be some assumption that Europe has everything perfect. Far from it.
I've no idea how these light controlled junctions work in practice (bus islands) and I don't know anyone from the visually impaired community, but why is it so hard to contemplate that this infrastructure genuinely makes their lives easier?
Also, 14 poles sounds like major overkill 😂 Any pics?!
that bloke is a scumbag
Then you have a certain disability campaigner arguing against anything on 2 wheels and arguing FOR footpath parking
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.
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.
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?...
The point is there's little opportunity to cross the road but a full signalled crossing of a 1.7m cycle lane
Incredibly these designs work perfectly well in London and guess what, that’s without traffic lights.
There needs to be some common sense here.
As a country we are great at making rules. Actually enforcing them now..... that is another issue
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.
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.
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.
There'll be even more cars going even faster across a much wider road all day long
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.
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.
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?
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.
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