Hot on the heels of an Italian politician suggesting insurance and reg plates for e-bikes and scooters, now a British politician is at it...
(Interesting that the industry experts appear to be representatives for the motor cycle industry 🙄)
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I guess anyone wishing to discuss the efficacy of helmets could do so here: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057030568/helmets-the-definitive-thread-mod-note-please-read-opening-post
The family on Lawrence's Road in Dublin lose their appeal to keep a bike storage unit in their front garden.
The exact same model in plain view in a front garden in Marino remains in situ.
Bike shed in front garden ‘detrimental’ to Victorian home setting, planners rule
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2023/06/12/bike-shed-in-front-garden-detrimental-to-victorian-home-setting-planners-rule/
I'm convinced that cyclists have become a hated subgroup. Given that hatred, and it's hatred, make no mistake, I'm also convinced that helmets and cycling gear in general makes one less human and therefore game for aggression from groups who would not be normally aggressive at all. I therefore just cycle in normal clothes and hope that I appear more normal to those who would otherwise behave aggressively toward me.
That’s someone on the board itself with a bone to pick. The planning inspector recommended it be retained, and the resident offered to put some more landscaping around it, but the board overruled it.
It's not just the clothes, etc. A good deal of it is a sense of entitlement that has been allowed to build up through a complete lack of enforcement coupled with a media that portrays someone who wishes to cycle as a sport or as a form of transport as some kind of freak. There is a perception allowed to exist that most cyclists cycle on footpaths, break red lights, etc and you very rarely hear those tropes being rebuffed.
I had this lady on my commute this morning who felt that it was ok for her to ignore the law and use the 24/7 bus lane but I travelling legally in the bus lane should have been on the adjacent piece of glass covered red asphalt (she confirmed to me that I should have been in the cycle lane when she stopped further up). As far as she was concerned, she was completely in the right and I was completely in the wrong and in my wrongdoing, I know that she believes that I delayed her so I was even more in the wrong.
if someone in the council is paying heed, and i know there are people in the council who would be sympathetic to their cause; i bet if that couple applied for a bike bunker on the road outside their house once the project finally gets off the ground, they'd probably get a fair hearing.
it'd be a wonderful two fingers to whomever objected.
Inspectors recommendation...
...but the board's views...
Apparently this is the house & bike bunker under discussion (it's not the tin shed one!)...
and worth noting that this is st lawrence's road
Dear lord, if they'd stayed in the driving lane they would have passed you legally and safely and quicker, what was the f*cking point, it's not like there was even heavy or slow traffic. Not that, that excuses such ****ish behaviour.
Here's the important part of that article;
"after a planning complaint was made to the local authority"
Without said complaint (from a member of the public) the council are not going to come down to check on it.
The one in Marino is presumably still there because nobody made a formal planning complaint
People in Marino are sound, people in Clontarf are not so sound. I grew up in Clontarf, the place is full of notions.
Next on Pat Kenny Newstalk
Just coming back to this had a rather interesting encounter with a young silage tractor at location below.
R669
https://maps.app.goo.gl/tgM6Y8q8EiVqqD288
We were a group of 6 heading away from camera and tractor-trailer unit was traveling towards camera and turning right into field.
As we approached, maybe 50m away, he swung to our side to enable turn into narrow entrance, meaning we had to stop.
He was almost all the way in until he got caught around rear axle, at which point our side of the road was free.
He immediately dropped clutch and owing to heights of field the tractor trailer unit reversed very quickly straight across road, almost hitting ditch on far side.
He was oblivious to our presence; I'm not sure what would have happened if I wasn't there. The rest of the group new as much about tractors as I would about Cantonese
I saw this in another thread and it had me thinking about the hysteria some people have over the bike bunker. I can't imagine this would be acceptable to the same people, but would they turn a blind eye as it's for motor vehicles.
i just copped this is essentially the same piece as the one Seth posted yesterday, albeit from news at one.
i know more children who have suffered head injuries in playgrounds than while out cycling - and i don't mean this as a trite argument (i'm not say children should wear helmets in playgrounds) but i doubt the doctor would call for helmets to be made mandatory in that context.
Yeah, don't want to get into helmet megathread territory, but it is odd how cycling is made out to be like base jumping or something. My wife was told by one of the consultants where she works that trampolines are one of the biggest generators of unpleasant injuries.
My sis-in-law is a paediatrician and has often said the same - it's mainly the ones without the "fence" where the kids get limbs, stc. caught at the edges
I always wonder have these people ever gone to Amsterdam and if so how did their heads not explode.
Again increases the perception that Cycling a bicycle is a dangerous activity, and not one that parents should risk their children's lives by letting them do so without safety equipment being made a legal requirement!
Plus it feeds into the Anti-Cycling brigade who want to Tax/licence/cycling test anyone who wants to cycle a bike outdoors...
couple of letters in the irish times over the last week or two about cycle path maintenance.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2023/06/13/cycle-paths-and-footpaths/
I just walked by a house on Clontarf Road, 2 doors up from The Sheds, which has the exact same bike bunker proudly on display in the front garden.
1 rule for Lawrence's Road, 1 rule for others.
There’s a big shed/bunker in one of the houses on the stiles road as well, passed it this morning
A house on Castle Avenue opposite Dunseverick has a gigantic barna shed in the front garden, but cleverly hidden by tall hedges.
The one beside the Sheds looks grand, not obnoxious at all. Can't understand why anyone would complain about these.
It's not, though. It's the same rules for everyone. You can chance putting in a bunker, but if someone complains, you'll likely be asked to remove it
CLASS 3
The construction, erection or placing
within the curtilage of a house of any tent, awning, shade or other object, greenhouse, garage, store, shed or other similar structure.
1. No such structure shall be constructed,
erected or placed forward of the front wall of a house.
Page 393 of this document, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS 2001 – 2023
The arms for an overhead e-car charger shown a few posts earlier, would that foul of the rules? If so a new motorists v cyclists argument coukd break out 😀
No idea. It would need someone to complain, but it doesn't seem to fall under the heading of a "structure".
The only reason that I'm posting any of this is that some people seem to erroneously think this is some cycling specific attack. It's not. It's just planning laws being applied, as and when people make formal complaints. Are the people complaining doing so because it's a bike bunker specifically? It's possible, but the council aren't requesting it's removal because it's a bike bunker, rather because it's a structure that has been built forward of the front wall of a house, contravening planning laws.
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