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.
Just to add again, DCC have decided to remove the Amien street stop at Preston Street. This decision overlooks the Dart+ Railway Order which was submitted this year and includes a new entrance to Connolly Dart at Preston Street.
This makes no sense and suggests a very poor process in deciding stop placements.
I understand now why they started using the old 53 outward bound bus stop under the bridge for all routes (I thought bus drivers were making mistakes). It was so they could do away with the Bayview Avenue stop outward.
The loss of Strandville (617) affects me badly as I have mobility issues. I used to use the bus quite a bit, even though the walk home from the Bayview stop required a little sit down half way, but I may have to use the car in future. As residents we were promised temporary removal of the stops, which was clearly necessary for the building work, but we were promised they would be put back.
Met a lunatic driver overtaking four buses outside the fire station the other morning, entirely on the wrong side of the road and flashing madly at me as if I was in the wrong. The lack of enforcement is crazy. A couple of young ones out of Templemore should be patrolling that stretch from the Fire Station to Newcomen bridge for a week or so, catch all the cars who should not have come onto that stretch, all the light breakers (2 and 4 wheel) and other breakers of rules.
how's the balls up doing? anyone know when there will be a functioning bike lane going into town, are we talking years or months? i will be living in north strand when i move home next year so i feel lucky that this is being built!
Looks like the way into town is nearly finished. Then, I’m assuming, they start on the other side of the road…..
The move to the other side is really going to hit that poor jeweller hard
Any reason to mention the jewellers in particular? What about the supermarket, opticians, butchers, etc next door or very close by? What makes the jewellers to be impacted more?
In answer to your comment about "young Gardai from the college". . . . . . . There aren't any. The last two intakes were cancelled due to lack of numbers. Serious issues getting members for the upcoming VIP visits. So don't expect any resources to be thrown at North Strand.
Because he is the one that courted the media telling them how the project forced his business to close even before work had started!
If it's no longer open, how will the roadworks impact it? Am I missing something?
Pawed Rig & Seth Brundle are both mods. It seems both of them have a chip on each shoulder about Duggan’s Jewellers which is now closed and gone for several months.
Me being a mod is irrelevant (especially as my mod role is in Politics).
As for Duggans closure, he blamed it (to as many media outlets that would listen to his shite) on the cycle path which hadn't even started! He didn't seem to blame it on the various robberies, bad business practices or anything else!
The plans for this cycle route included a spur from Annesley Bridge through Fairview Park along the north bank of the Tolka, under the railway bridge and linking up with Alfie Byrne Road. Does anyone know when this bit of the works will begin?
“Bad business practices” ? Enlighten us please.
who gives a sh*t, the prick and his business who tried to hold up an essential project for north dublin is gone now, good riddance
Damian Duggan is a top bloke who would give you his last penny. He spent most of his working life in that business. He had every right to fight and protect it.
He had every right to fight and protect it.
But he didn't! He decided to close up before the works even started and blamed the closure on the works.
He might well be a top bloke but my view on him is that he is a lying prick and I couldn't give a toss that he has chosen to close his business.
must be a total idiot if he thinks non existent works are the reason his business was finished. top blokes don't pedal lies in the media.
The business closed before the works started.
There was no fight to protect it - he left to go work elsewhere and chose to blame something unconnected.
How’s things working out for him in the shop he’s working in now, the one with no parking in the vicinity?
To be honest, I don't really care about the jeweller. He saw an opportunity to grind an axe while also getting some free advertisement for the sale of his property, and took it.
I do have an issue with all the media companies that uncritically published his near fact free rants. In my opinion, it's a huge issue that our media is happy to publish articles like this guys without providing any fact checking or wider context.
I mean if you even had a cursory glance at the plans you'd know it wouldn't affect his business or parking spaces any time soon. I'm sure they knew this but just like stoking the fire anyway.
Thanks for all your kind words. You’re all heart! 🙄
Had the same question. Currently blocked by a big rusty gate at the Tolka corner of the park. The slow pace of DCC....... I'll be planted before they do the Deep Sinking section (after Castleknock Station) of the Royal Canal. Dublin Port also dragging their feet on their cycle way plan. More "consultations" needed no doubt.
Halls Pictorial weekly are used as corporate training videos for DCC and Dublin Port
https://youtu.be/PyDWLSrbzUw
He focused a lot of his efforts on customers in the over 80s bracket. Then when they started dying of old age, they stopped coming to his shop.
Yeah, he had a right to fight for his business. But not to hold up development and improvement of the area for his own selfish needs.
While hoofing it to the bus stop nearest me yesterday, I had a bit of a rest against the railings. That cycle lane looks very narrow to me. Will a bike be able to pass another? Scary deep kerbs on it too, though maybe they were not finished. Nice paving.
It won't be easy to overtake. But you have to take what you can get as a cyclist.
Yeah, seems the designers didn't take handlebars into account, those railings along the length of it are going to cause problems.
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Its why I generally hate segregated cycle infrastructure. But its not really being built for me...
Exactly, it's better than nothing. I'm sure the cars would love wider lanes to overtake too, we all have to live within the limits.
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