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.
Hang on, for every cyclist that goes through a red light there is at least one driver doing the same. And as I saw this morning, in a bus lane with phone in hand. So a nice trifecta of rules of the road broken.
You have made this a cyclist v driver argument. I just pointed out the bus lane is being abused by private motorists and has been since this project started. A bloody gopro camera on a stick in Fairview could do the job required. The superintendent at Store St could lobby his superiors to embrace technology to free up his resources to do some actual police work.
Over the weekend I drove through the diversion into Ballybough, witnessed another plethora of private vehicles using the bus lane through Fairview into North Strand, and then encountered a Garda checkpoint looking at tax and insurance discs which is another complete waste of resources when cameras and number plates could do the job 24/7, freeing up our police force to actually police.
Hang on, for every cyclist that goes through a red light there is at least one driver doing the same
It was at that moment your credibility ended.
We all see it every day, no point pretending it doesn't happen. Drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, blatantly ignoring red lights. Actually on my travels through Ballybough at the weekend the traffic lights were out at the crossroads in Summerhill/Gardiner St and it wad the calmest junction I've seen in a long time as everyone (drivers, cyclists and pedestrians) was very attentive to the surroundings.
I'd be hugely in favour of red light cameras in Ireland for all, no matter what mode of transport is being used.
The irony
Meh. Drivers breaking the law are killing people all the time. Boo hoo about some cyclists, going through red lights, making you cry.
Drivers causing chaos in Clontarf earlier. Stop and go in place at the rail bridge on Clontarf Road. Usual motorists queuing to get into Westwood carpark, except this time they are blocking traffic in both directions as they are coming at it from two sides of the road.
Westwood has been a disaster area for years. I mentioned it to the management once and they didn't give a crap. I further emailed the head office who gave less of a crap.
Yeah, that's exactly what I'd expect from management. I know it always been bad. Even before these works began, I'd often see busses held up by cars queuing in the bus lane, with people too lazy to walk from the overflow car park beside the train station.
Not sure what more they can do really, they can't build another entrance, they supplied the overflow car park for people but on a week like this with heavy downpours, nobody even wants to walk 200m.
It's truly amazing that they queue there for 15 minutes rather than walk for 2 minutes. Morons.
They can ensure people don't block the footpath for a start.
Even more amazing is the place is a bloody GYM!!!!! The whole point of such is to stay healthy and keep fit. The mind boggles, if we cant get people to walk 2 minutes to a gym we have no hope.
For a very low wage, they could employ someone to stand outside and tell drivers intending to queue that they cannot block either the bus or cycle lanes.
they used to have a dude directing cars there when i was a member. are they getting rid of the overflow? i heard the lease ran out with DCC. i'll probably join again soon but i kind of hope they close the overflow just to see what happens.
But cars are far more important than bikes or buses
You can be sure that that person would either be completely ignored or roundly abused.
If it's the middle of the day, then it's parents bringing their kids to swimming lessons causing the problem. Up until very recently, the overflow car park was solely for members, requiring a tag to get in, so a lot of parents just don't know any better now.
As Monk says, they lost the lease on the overflow carpark now, it was up for renewal, for quite a ridiculously low price, until a few councillors questioned it, and then suddenly it was pulled. No idea what the council are going to do with it.
so is it still just a westwood members car park or what?
When people found out DCC had been leasing it to them, and were about to renew the lease, they called for a better use of the land than just a carpark for a gym.
It's now a proper overflow car park, open to anyone that is using Westwood, no tag required. Of course, the only way that you'd know that is by reading the signs up in Westwood, which are A4 sized and blend into the dozens of other notices up around the place.
I don't know how they enforce the "Westwood users only" policy, as I've never seen people in there doing any checking.
but is it still supposed to be exclusive to westwood members or is it now free public parking for anyone?
No idea. I think Westwood want to use it for anyone using Westwood, but as that includes members and non members (e.g. parents bringing their kids to classes there), I don't think that they have a way of stopping someone going in there and parking for free.
Currently Westwood have the lease on the land, so it's for people to use while using the facility. That now includes people bringing kids to swimming lessons and birthday parties. Previously those were excluded from it (ie it was only paying members)
but i thought they didn't any more, that now it belongs to DCC?
I'm not sure the timeline, the council objection only happened in the past few weeks, when the were looking to extend a lease that ends probably end of year
Took this snap yesterday on North Strand near Fire Station. You can see the amount of work being undertaken on utilities under the cycleway.
"Honestly Joe, those bike lanes are so over-engineered its ridiculous....they don't even pay road tax Joe"
Motorists: "Cycle lanes have ruined Griffith Avenue"
Also motorists:
I know that house, was usually kept in well nick but the construction you see in the pic have used it as a parking spot for the past few months
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