Dublin - BusConnects

From a reliable source:

Swords and Ringsend Schemes will be submitted in March. The remaining 4 schemes across April, May and possibly June.

The source of delay is not purely bureaucracy but rather politics. It seems ABP is being pressured into prioritising rail projects, namely Metrolink and DART+W with a view to having these granted an RO before end of the year. Government is keen to speed up the delivery of rail and big projects generally.

The first few CBCs will still get their permissions over this summer and additional resources are being directed to ABP from non critical departments.

Other DART projects are still on ice for now due to cost concerns. However, these may soon be resolved.

There are additional concerns over construction resources. Currently not enough skilled persons in the country to deliver these plans, nowhere to house them if we import and the impact on home building isn't yet understood, but would certainly be negative.

Sorry where is this coming from? There's no reports that the Dart Plus projects are on ice.

Is ABP sitting in the housing ministers portfolio or does it sit across multiple ministers portfolios.

There should be one minister accountable for ABP if this is not alreadY the case IMO.

Believe it or not a lot of accountants and general clerical staff, rather than people with a planning or engineering background (who are thin on the ground). Might seem counter intuitive but apparently there is a logic behind it and it works apparently. The staffing issues are complex but people who know a lot more about it than I have assured me this is hugely positive.

Doesn’t seem to be working too well though!!

ABP seem to be the bottleneck where every major project slows to glacial speed.

Or how about we address the bottleneck by expanding its capacity?

I like Irishcycle but I honestly do think they moan a little bit too much. And I say that as some who cycles at least 6 days a week in the city. They can be a bit absolutist and at times unsatisfiable.

Clearly the execution on this has been very poor but I find his arrogance appalling. The lights have been installed for visually impaired people, by their request. It's not expected that everyone uses the crossing.

I find it disgusting how quick people are to dismiss this entire group of people in our community.

And don't quote best practice across Europe. There are many cities that don't even have audible beeps at crossings. Perhaps Ireland is the first country in Europe who are trying, at least, to be more inclusive on our public streets....

Yes, I'm surprised there's not multiple crossings of the cycle track (even if it is of the signalised variety).

We have to cater for all users, be they cars, public transport, cyclists, pedestrians or the visually impaired. Ironic that we have a group that campaigns for specific provision for cyclists complaining about specific provision for visually impaired pedestrians.

As for the zebra crossing markings AND lights - wtf???!!!!

Who has right of way?! The zebra crossing gives right of way at all times to pedestrians, but the cyclist will only see a green (or red) bike traffic light.

What a mess.

Whatever about the intention of the bus island traffic lights for visually impaired, the fact that cyclists are directed onto the pedestrian footpath at the junction (to turn left) makes a total mockery of it.

A tick box exercise with an end result that no one is happy.