Not reducing car access per say, but DLR yet again showing they have the guts to go for ambitious active travel projects.
Construction supposedly due to start by the end of next year, as detailed planning and tendering are still to be done.
Very embarrassing for DCC. Not surprising though, I know some of the folks working there. Their entire career is focused on coming up with technical reasons why they can't do things, mostly pretty flimsy reasons that don't stand up to research but enough to convince Joe public. Their roads engineer once gave me lists of things they couldn't do for legal reasons including zebra crossings, banning or formalising footpath parking which a residents group had achieved on their own in particular location without DCC, banning cars on all of Capel st was another one ( jervis car park had to have access to the quays for some reason).
Indeed, another one that they love using is "oh there's a major project in the works that may impact that, so we're going to hold off until that's completed."
Their roads engineer once gave me lists of things they couldn't do for legal reasons including zebra crossings
to be fair, zebra crossings may as well not exist in law. but at least DCC are proceeding now with a trial.
Proposals for improvements to the streets around grafton/Dawson. And have fishamble St one way (southbound) with a contra flow cycle lane (northbound)
"A traffic survey found that over 24 hours, 3,349 vehicles travelled southbound up the road, while 247 travelled northbound ... There are so few vehicles travelling northbound that a two-way street isn’t needed, she said, so the proposal is to make the street one-way southbound"
Actual data and ...
"More cyclists use the road northbound than southbound, says French, since it is easier to go down the hill than up it."
... common sense driving decisions. Is this ... is this Ireland we're talking about?
Dun laoghaire installed their first of the 'trial' zebra crossings last night
While I was only there for a few minutes, the majority of motorists I witnessed had yet to notice the change!
Of course there's an SUV ignoring the pedestrian.
No doubt there will at least 5 more signposts added to each side of the crossing to warn motorists. We just love our street clutter.
according to the rules of the road, she should have pushed the buggy out in front of the jeep to get it to stop...
anyway good to see more ZCs.
Hardly ignoring. As per RTA the pedestrian needs to be using the crossing before a driver is required to stop. In the photo the woman is clearly not using the crossing as she is on the path
The Zebra Crossing should be marked to include part of the footpath - a safe zone for pedestrians.
This is actually another reason I hate SUVs. Thanks to their ability to handle larger bumps, drivers of SUVs don't slow down as much at these kind of speed bumps, which means people are afraid of steeping out onto the crossing. Pedestrians, rightly, believe that even at a crossing like this, they are taking their life into their hands.
The UK recently changed their rules, or at least clarified them, Cars MUST give way to people who has stepped out, and SHOULD give way to people waiting to cross.
Plus should give way to anyone crossing at a junction. A pedestrian crossing a side street has right of way over a driver turning left or right into it. Basically now every junction = a zebra crossing
This is already the case in Ireland btw. I believe it was already the case in the UK, but they strengthened and highlighted it recently.
nope. pedestrian must be actively crossing.
A driver of a vehicle approaching a zebra pedestrian crossing where traffic sign number RPC 001 (zebra pedestrian crossing) or traffic sign number RPC 001A (zebra pedestrian crossing without belisha beacons) is provided shall yield the right of way to any pedestrian who has commenced crossing the road at the crossing.”,
I had to grab a quick lunch today while I was out so popped into McDonalds in Lucan shopping centre. While I was there, two drivers, one after the other, parked on the double yellows right outside the restaurant despite them already being in a car park.
As it happened, I decided to get a photo of the second one (belonging to a delivery driver for McD's) as I was leaving (the driver coincidentally left just before me). He wasn't impressed that I took a photo and my reason for taking it and informed me that I must delete it. Anyhow, as I walked back towards my car, he proceeded to drive through the car park (with a bit of speed) with his phone pointed towards me whilst ignoring the one way system with cars travelling towards him.
The fella who parked before him obviously hadn't time to pick one of the many available spaces because he was only getting a coffee and was probably very important.
Still, too lazy to find a space when you're already in a car park is a new one for me!
The point is that it’s not just at zebra crossings, it’s at all junctions.
This is very normal around me. People dump their cars on double-yellow lines in near-empty car parks
i've been in the car with my father in law doing similar - recording someone's driving after they've done what has annoyed them.
so all he gets is a video of someone doing something unremarkable, while he spits fire in the background, while clearly recording the fact that it's himself breaking the law.
Spotted these two within 5 minutes of each other today. When the BMW arrived there was multiple spaces to park in legally, but he chose to park on the corner, on double yellows, instead.
^^ I was wondering if I was correct in thinking whether that was near the Artane roundabout. Checked Google maps which confirmed it and the illegal parking issues there...
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3823573,-6.2072182,3a,75y,257.08h,90.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4Jx243zNF4uUXoUKAdMCVQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Which is a frankly bizarre way of saying "don't mow down pedestrians cause you don't feel like stopping".
It renders the crossing under Irish law completely pointless as you can't randomly knock down people in the road anyway. Though I'm sure certain judges would ensure you get away with it.
i was there was month, and a taxi driver had pulled up on the path, outside the PTSB. Which was harder to do, rather than park in their own car park.
I was referring to pedestrians on side streets.
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Well, if they marked a region of the footpath as part of the zebra crossing, then anyone standing in the marked area would be 'on' the zebra crossing. That would then give them the same rights as being in peril on the zebra crossing waiting for the traffic to recognise them and actually stop.
Simple enough to do.
Yes but it’s stilly that such a workaround is needed. Pedestrians in the roadway generally already have right of way (I.e. don’t run them over) so it’s a rather pointless piece of legislation as it is. I suppose it gives priority to the pedestrian in other lanes that perhaps simply being in the roadway doesn’t.
Im am for workarounds to improve the situation short term but that’s something that just needs to be fixed legislatively.
Yes it is a workaround - that is true.
But it would give a clear indication for pedestrians and motorists that he pedestrian intends to cross and that the motorist must stop. That could be incorporated into legislation.
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