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...
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?
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.
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.
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!
jewellery is, of course, known for its low value, high bulk items, requiring HGV access to move around.
"Why won't anyone think of the poor children of Ballincollig?"
“It’s about the safety of our kids, “ said Julie Sugrue from Carriganarra.
“This is my front door and my kids’ safety. I have two kids, and this is where the kids go to play football, cycle, and have the craic with their friends,” she said.
“We had people from Limeworth and Glincool at the meeting. We are all against it. Greenways are fantastic and we are all for all of that, but at what cost?”
I'm struggling to understand what the logic is here. What exactly does she (and others) think will happen to the kids?
Well, obviously I'm going to tear down there as soon as it opens and time trial up and down the Greenway, hunting for kids to knock down. I'll probably get a rota going with a few clubmates to make sure that there is someone patrolling the Greenway for stray kids at all times. It's going to be carnage.
But how can it become more dangerous for the kids given that there is no separation from drivers at present? Is it simply that we drive them everywhere and you want us to let them out on their own?
After searching, I found this justifying the opposition...
...followed by this...
...but that doesn't explain the safety angle taken by the NIMBYist quoted in the Examiner.
This would be the Lloyds Pharmacy attached to a shopping centre that has a large car park accessible almost directly from the 4-lane Blackrock bypass; and has 14 on-street parking spots directly outside his door?
That shopping centre was almost empty long before the cycle-lane went through Blackrock.
Even the reasons in those two tweets don't really make much sense when you think about them.
He mentions a 'quiet cul de sac with no through traffic' - bikes and pedestrians are pretty quiet. This sounds like an anti-car argument, more than an anti-cycle one. Also, 2/3 of the green area remains, plus the added benefit that your kids will have a safe, segregate means of getting about when they are old enough?
The greenway = antisocial behavior trope is marched out again. There's no basis for this, but it never seems to be challenged.
i saw this mentioned on Twitter by a relative of the cyclist and unfortunately they said they are praying for him to wake up.
Oh this is the same place that want to save roundabouts:
Pretty sure someone from the area posted a video in the commuting thread on this stretch but the video really only highlights the car priority.
I'm all for those public opposition rallies and petitions - the people are easily identified and should be slapped with minimum Ten Year Stupid Tax.
While we're at it, lets pray for all the poor souls (and the children - FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!) who have busy roads 10 feet from their front doors up and down the country. How ever do they make it through the day intact.
"Protect Elderly Parking" signs going up in the front gardens there this morning. The elderly must have all gone to work though as no shortage of spaces around 8am...
There was a few up yesterday as well.
There's a resident there with a giant "No parking" sign affixed to the wall, as well as a double wide gate, all purely to preserve the space outside their front door as a private spot for themselves only. That's the level of entitlement.
All of the cottages have small garden space that, if with the removal of the walls between garden and footpath, could be converted to a parallel parking space actually on their own property. Something tells me that even if the council offered to fund the conversion that most wouldn't be in favour of the idea of using their own private property to store their own private property
You should cycle but just not here says UN...
cycled to bloom today. as usualy, quite amused to be told i wasn't allowed cycle in the car park.
Hope you did the honorable and abiding thing and cycled home to get your car. Is the car park not the big open field off the North Road, is there much bicycle parking near the entrance off the roundabout near the Aras entrance or did you have to lock to some railing as usual.
Have done a few organised runs in the park and there's never any bike racks, have to find a tree has that has protective railings and lock it to that.
I parked the bike at the green entrance, at the back of the visitors centre. There are bike racks installed for the duration of bloom. Kinda like Sheffield stands. Felt perfectly safe locking it there, the place is crawling with stewards and gardai. I don't know how busy the bike stands get, I arrived before bloom had started and left after it ended.
Belgian PM falls off bike...
Did he fall because he passed out or did he pass out because he fell?
I've been cycling in Dublin for 25 years but originally from Galway and have family there so familiar with the roads. Good piece but what horrific injuries on a roadabout, no details given as to the type and speed of the vehicle.
this would seem to put the lie to the claim that the roads just keep getting safer - a tripling of serious injuries in a decade (though it's vague on whether that could be down to better reporting, as they mention accuracy of the info as being an issue?)
Just read that too. I don't ever remember annual serious injury number before. The only metric I ever remember being published was road fatalities.
Strongly linked with discussions we've had on boards here before about how these things get reported
i've heard of KSI stats being used before, but in different jurisdictions. maybe one issue is 'serious' in 'seriously injured' is not set in stone, but 'killed or not' is fairly binary. would be curious as to what the definition of 'seriously injured' is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_road_traffic_accidents_deaths_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland_by_year
1997 they started recording serious injuries, injuries in 1922; hat the criteria was or is fcuk knows
I see that, but I've never seen in reported on before. News outlets will release quarterly and annual fatality numbers, as well as comparing to the previous year/quarter. Never heard anything about serious injuries before
Just while we're on the subject... Plea for motorists to reduce their speed as deaths on roads increase by 21pc (msn.com)
Only one cyclist fatality so far, thankfully. Yet we're lumped in with motorcyclists (9 fatalities) as being one sixth of all fatalities.
Gardai and RSA pleading with people again, what complete nonsense.
Imagine if the Gardai took this line wqith other illegal things in Ireland
, "Plea for people not to break into houses and murder people as breakins and murders increase by 21pc"
Enforcement is the only thing that will work here, double the points and start enforcing things. It's the only thing that will reduce dangerous behavior such as speeding and mobile phone use. While we're at it start handing out 3 points for footpath, bus and cycle lane parking.
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