And let's not forget that said jeweller closed down his store, and then went to work for a different jeweller located in a pedestrianised area!
When you also have what is essentially free parking wherever you want (due to zero enforcement of illegal parking) it's far too easy to keep a car in Dublin even when you don't really need it.
It's an old residential area so I'm surprised the locals haven't asked the council to paint in some double yellows..
The reason i'm linking this story is to highlight the fact that even with multiple options Bus/Luas/Bicycle/Go-Car, people are still locked in to the car.
they make the point though that the issue is people aren't willing to pay €75 per month for a parking spot. so parking is there; just no enforcement on the street?
Here's another example of how people are wedded to their motor vehicles: https://dublininquirer.com/2023/05/31/in-drimnagh-a-push-for-car-free-living-has-so-far-led-to-a-car-clogged-road/
A new apartment complex, less than 15mins cycle from the city center, 20 mins by Luas or Bus...
But the muppets on social media latched onto his nonsense and repeated it as Gospel. Even the mainstream media repeated his nonsense and usually in those media stories there was no mention of the other (more costly) works - just a poxy €60 million cycle lane that would displace hard working people trying just to get to work.
that jeweller was the dumbest idiot i've heard of in a long while. 'oh, i've decided to sell my commercial premises, so i'll go on the radio and tell everyone it's impossible to do business from that address'.
From a cycling perspective, he kinda doesn't need to because the spurious claims are never usually contested. Reminds me of a certain jeweller who blamed cycle lanes which hadn't even been built for why his shop was closing down!
Doesn't this shopping centre have a car park? He might want to pay more attention to the comments in the google reviews as to why people might not be going to this particular pharmacy.
i've mentioned before - at a DCC meeting years ago (several years before covid), a senior engineer from the council pleaded with those present to lobby their local representatives to push for infrastructure. some people in the council actually give a **** about this but never had the political impetus behind them to make changes; but now we're seeing a shift to it becoming more standardised.
Its a creeping narrative that at this stage has almost been adopted as a raison d'etre by the media - cycling infrastructure is bad, inherently affects commerce and nobody other than hippies and Mamils want it.
I'm actually surprised that the Govt. hasn't caved - there doesn't seem to be any corresponding voice from the cycling community to counter this crap or at least get a bit of positive PR going. Probably another case of the Greens actually having backbone and principles and nobody giving them credit for it.
”However, this was shot down by Keith Murphy of Lloyd’s Pharmacy, who has personal experience of the Dublin works and its effects.
‘We have a pharmacy in Blackrock and that scheme has actually decimated that store. We are on the verge of closing it. The shopping centre has three tenants out of 17.’”
I’ve never heard such absolute bullshít go completely uncontested
More of the same, parking trumps safe infrastructure
They absolutely do, there was uproar over covid for the changes they did around Paris, but local government for the most part doesn’t care and just ignores them.
Anywhere there are cars, there will be NIMBYism.
Some of you may be familiar with Nadia Williams - an interesting talk here on her Phd thesis (Effect of Social Psychology on Urban Design):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YQKuultqoI
France to invest €2Bn over the next 4 years to encourage cycling...
Even looking at areas such as bicycle production so sounds like they've thought this through.
I wonder do the French get the same kind of NIMBY objections to any form of cycling infrastructure that we get here.
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/removing-residents-parking-for-cycle-lane-on-deansgrange-road-will-destroy-our-community/a960333813.html
From reading the article you'd think they lived in the middle of Siberia, which in the depths of winter would be a challenge to get around, but in leafy Deansgrange there's about 5 restaurants 2 mins walk away, Supervalu 5 mins walk...
The old Mooneys garage is up for sale so will end up being apartment blocks, so where do they think the residents of that apartment block will park all their vehicles..
They should just go back to the original one way! Shankill to City Centre, Deansgrange is (imo) the worst part of the commute. Notwithstanding that, it's only recently I realised what a massive missing piece of the jigsaw in the local area when I started following the through the parks routes from Shankill to Blackrock.
"We’re not against the cycle lanes whatsoever."
Just not this one, that affects me.
The unfortunate thng is that while it is obvious that all she appears to be concerned about is not having her own free parking space removed from outside her front door, you undoubtedly will have the usual idiot councillors who will latch onto her selfish nonsense and cause further delays to this project!
To claim that a project that is trying to create a safe and healthy method of travel for kids to school is going to reduce peoples safety is pure nonsense.
I love the response from the DLR rep. "We offered you 11 different options, you shot down A, B & C, here's D, which was approved by the council, check out the video of the vote on our website, work will begin shortly"
That's even more shocking, I think everyone in the racing community knew or knew of this young lady, a tragic needless loss of life is right..
I hope the Gardai get to the bottom of this incident and bring some peace to the family...
Removing residents’ parking for cycle lane on Deansgrange Road will ‘destroy our community’ (msn.com)
Top quality Maude Flanders impersonation from Breda there.
British Cycling are in absolute rag order, they’re now cancelling the u23 road program, so there’ll be no Tour de L’Avenir etc for young riders
https://twitter.com/radio_cycling/status/1663479122675261440?s=46&t=EzAvU7O51qn7Pk6HLURULw
i see the census 2022 results have started to come out; not sure when the transport related stats will be released, but could be interesting.
More details released, what a needless, tragic event
"Dutch style" roundabout with "Irish" Style drivers in D15... what could possibly go wrong!? :-/
just a stock image i guess.
i am usually bemused by the advice to do the dutch reach so you see cyclists approaching from behind. if you can remember to do the dutch reach, surely that's no easier than remembering to just bloody look anyway?
The Indo journalist and editor don't know we drive/ride on the left hand side of the road in Ireland?
That would be asking too much!
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