Nice piece explaining the issues around bike storage: https://dublininquirer.com/2023/05/17/in-clontarf-council-orders-woman-to-remove-bike-storage-from-her-front-garden/
I have to say though, what's pictured at the top is definitely a shed and not a bike locker! It would only need to be half the height if it was just for bikes.
yeah, it's really bizarre how what is essentially a form of murder or at least manslaughter is just totally ignored by the media and people yet they lose their sh*t over an alleged angry cyclist in clontarf. the population has been well and truly brainwashed by cars and traffic.
Assuming we're thinking of the same incident I know that family well and you're right in that it got next to no coverage. Also no prosecution despite it being captured on CCTV.
If true, what a horrible cúnt.
Man (50s) arrested in NI after video surfaces allegedly showing him tying wire between trees in forest area...
I can well believe it too. I've been roared at by some eejit as i approached the crossing of the bull island causeway road. He came around the little bend of the path on the Sutton side far too fast and was highly irritated that i was coming the other way and was not out in the pedestrian part to acccomodate his speed. He swerved out around me using the pedestrian part - luckily nobody was walking there at the time or it could have been an incident. Some people are just d**ks.
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if a certain GK is involved with this organisation i'd say it's absolutely makebelieve or at least totally exaggerated
A good bit of what the Indo have on their website is content found elsewhere on the web, presented purely for clicks/advertising
Could well be true. I don't see why it's so shocking or newsworthy though. I doubt the woman who rolled through the blatantly red light at the Appian Way/ Leeson St junction yesterday morning rush hour while on reading/ texting on her phone had much concern for any of the pedestrians trying to cross. Or the aul wans on both sides of the road who took a look at me coming up O'Connell St yesterday in the bus/ cycle and decided that they'd just waddle out anyway nearly causing carnage.
Idiots will be idiots. And asshats will be asshats. Crazy that there are 'journalists' in the Indo for whom these is revelatory news.
There was a woman in her 70s killed in a hit and run a few months ago in Galway I think and it didn't make as much news as this
I didn't realise it made the Indo, I agree it's not worthy of inclusion there and is certainly being used as a clickbait article.
no reason it can't be real. cyclists can be assholes too.
just odd that it's deemed worthy of inclusion in such an august outlet like the indo. 'cyclists were rude' is hardly headline grabbing news?
To be honest I don't think the incident is made up. I've come across a couple of weirdly aggressive cyclists while cycling that route over the years (I cycle it for transport mostly and I'm very mindful of the shared spaces and broad range of abilities on the route) , a tiny minority but none the less they stick out in my mind. The issue is really that there are a number of complete arseholes in this world and some of them happen to pick up a bike every now and then.
I know you're only in the cycling forum because you hate cyclists and climate change and woke stuff, but I reckon that whole incident is made up bullsh*t.
Disability group condemns ‘aggressive behaviour’ of cyclists during Clontarf incident
The women, one of whom is visually impaired and the other in a wheelchair, were waiting on the tactile paving for the pedestrian light to turn green. Two cyclists began shouting at them to “get out of the way”.
A passing garda stopped to calm the incident and confirmed to the cyclists that people with a disability have the right of way in a shared space.
Bernard Mulvany, co-founder of Access For All, who intervened in the altercation said the two women were visibly “upset”.
I've observed similar inconsiderate behaviour towards pedestrians walking or crossing area marked as cycling paths. Pedestrians do have priority.
I caught the end of a piece on RTE Drivetime earlier, it was the Dublin CoCo Cycling and Walking Officer publicising Bike Week events I think. Anyway, the presenter read out a text which made me laugh out loud, so hopefully some here will appreciate it also.
"If Dublin introduces a congestion charge for motorists, cyclists should have to pay it too!" 😆😆😆
Parents raise concerns over safety of cycle lanes...
Columnist Siobhan O'Connor in today's Sunday Mirror says her locked bicycle was nicked near O'Connell Street Dublin
Crazy numbers coming from a single stretch of focused roads policing last weekend (Thursday to Tues morning)
On the drink/drug detections, thats a near 6% rate. Thats fking nuts
I'm just gonna say it, silage season last year was great for me. Tractors near me very respectful and if I timed it right I could draft some nearly the whole way home.
Farm safety has a way to go for sure.
Silage season is the second most stressful thing in a cattle farmer's year. You've a tiny window weather and resources wise (contractors, other people to help you), and to enforce legal hours would people (and processors and more so supermarkets!) need to pay a lot more for food and products (baby food, protein etc).
No harm in saying silage season is on, expect busier roads and therefore a bit more careful - everyone has to look out for each other - but telling vulnerable to stay away is bullshyte
My biggest "oh ****" moment involved a car over taking another car coming up to a bend as I was cycling the opposite direction.
I was inches away of being hit head on...the only time I thought I was a gonner.
The person driving was in a left hand drive car and the bend was going to his left.
Ok last post as its pretty off topic.
I didn't say they were the same as HGV but there is similarities without the controls and regulations around HGVs like
*licences
*Training especially around vulnerable road users, blind spots, high risk locations
*Use of tachographs and control of how long operators can drive without a break.
When you add in that much of the silage crew are young and operate primarily on narrow roads where by nature of their width they will have to very frequently drive to some degree on the wrong side of the road; with the consequently risks to other road users arising from that.
Even if silage contractors complied with the Organisation of Working Time Act it would be a start, but is there any good reason they shouldn't comply with
"EU law regulates the driving time of professional drivers using goods vehicles over 3.5t (including trailers) and passenger vehicles with more than 8 passenger seats.
The key requirements are that you must not drive:
Silage season would still be ground to a halt if that was in force and hence its not
How long did it take Kenny to tell her about the cyclist he saw breaking the lights this morning?
My worst experiences with silage contractors have all been off the bike. On bike you can hear them coming and can usually get reasonably well out of the way, but in a bigger vehicle when they come at speed with full load around blind bends and slide towards you it's absolutely no fun.
I have a memory of one lad coming within inches of T-boning a bus, right by where I had been sat on the bus: he was just tearing through every junction without slowing down because everything else was smaller than his tractor (I know this guy, he's in his 50's and this is explicitly his opinion, that "roads are for farmers"). He wasn't expecting the bus and only managed to brake at the last second.
Those would be my "standard" type of experiences of contractor crews: no stopping at junctions, no stopping pulling out of gates onto the road, no braking for corners. Because roads are for farming and everyone will get out of their way and they feel safe on the machine.
My bad on the stats, I read in a teagasc leaflet that animals were number 1, might have been a few years ago.
I also wouldn't say that silage outfits are HGV's, having driven both I totally disagree with that. Maybe I've just been lucky not to have bad experiences with them as a cyclist, but they're just another road user. Drivers are experienced, a lot more than equivalent drivers of the same age (having grown up with it etc). I'm not saying some young ones (a minority) don't hoon around but it's not the majority and having cycled and raced extensively around both home (extremely rural area) and Dublin and its environs, tractors don't feature in my scariest vehicles on the road. They're the least in my experience, cars topping the poll.
Was listening to Imogen Cotter on the Pat Kenny radio show this morning, launching a new safety campaign for vulnerable road users:
https://twitter.com/CotterImogen/status/1654181446645415937?cxt=HHwWgoC8ld7Q6vQtAAAA
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/improvement-in-farm-accident-statistics-in-2020-633878#:~:text=Fatal%20farm%20accidents%20over%20the%20last%2010%20years,-The%20last%2010&text=cows%20and%20bulls.-,In%202020%2C%20there%20were%2020%20farming%20workplace%20related%20deaths%20recorded,over%2065%20years%20of%20age.
I'm sorry to hear of your losses.
There's a review of the stats from 3 years ago, you will see tractors are number 1 cause of deaths.
Your opinion is at odds with the facts.
To say there's tractors are the same as any other road vehicle is simply not true. The machine has altered beyond recognition and the regulation and training has stayed the same.
16yr olds driving HGVs wouldn't happen but it's the norm with tractors.
People adjust to silage crews by staying off the road and away from them.
There was a time road deaths and construction deaths were multiples of current levels and we altered our behaviour, agricultural has never made that move.
ETA what may be different is that other road users aren't used to being around silage outfits on the road. That I can understand, I have seen some mental things people do around machinery. In the same way people are around lorries, they just don't understand where the blind spots are. My dad was a lorry driver so I grew up around them, have driven them. I think it would be very instructive for cyclists to get in the cab of a lorry or a tractor. See it from both sides.
Any issues I've had with tractors on the bike has been them coming from behind/ overtaking. The only blindspot issue is the person who is driving and their lack of awareness/ due care and attention.
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