Clontarf to City Centre Cycle & Bus Priority Project discussion (renamed)

Walked past yesterday morning

The left turn filter lane is cone'd off for some reason. (You can still turn left though)

The Bus lane blocker thing is still in place.

This was around 7:30am, not many cars. Place is being avoided like the plague it would seem.

What I would say about the works in Fairview is that the first part looks very slow (i.e. the initial digging and services work), but when it comes to laying down the paving and resurfacing, that part of it goes very quickly. The inbound side is the much bigger part of the job as it involves replacing the main water mains for the North East of the city.

They are upgrading all the services along the outbound side too. When they have that digging done and everything underground sorted, they can proceed to the surface level, which is a faster part of the works.

Another thing to remember is the mess that is at Fairview by the shops is happening in two strands. The current is a strip along the road side. They will then flip and work on the section / strip right outside the premises, which will be even more inconvenient. At the moment, walking along Fairview shops has a real feel of being "penned in". Also the glorious DCC seem to have given up cleaning along there since the previous guy retired, so it really is "a kip" right now. But as the saying goes, no pain, no gain.

DCC gave up around there long ago. It started when they removed most of the bins in the area and has gone downhill since.

The pedestrian section from the fire station to the 5 lamps is an absolute disgrace as well. I've seen people struggling with buggies along there, God love anyone in a wheelchair.

I am aware that the site compound used to store materials for the North Strand Works was due to be vacated by December 2023. Its located on Alfie Byrne Road. A request has been made by the contractor to extend the use of this site until the end of Q1 2024.

The inbound side of North Strand looks near completion. You can see the spot where the bus stop used to be! Those 3x car parking spaces will be a real asset for the people of North Strand!

Good update, thanks for sharing. I've used the open section at Fairview quite a bit lately and it's grand but a complete pain in the hole if you want to progress up Fairview strand rather than into town. There's the "nip over the concrete curb and two lanes of traffic" or dismount and cross at edges corner, which can take a while.

Quite possibly but it's a brutal junction to have to cross with a bike.

According to the drawings to access Fairview Strand, bicycles will pull into the left off the main bike lane and then turn right when the lights permit. There will be a single straight across crossing to Edge's from the park, doing away with the current split one which can take ages to cross as the lights don't sync.

Until then, it is fend for yourself!

That's good to know, thanks.

Take photos in landscape mode rather than portrait. That should be ok then, works for me 100% of the time anyway.

Landscape orientated photos are great for all in any case as you can rotate your phone quite easily but rotating your laptop or computer screen to view a portrait orientated image is rather cumbersome.

The current outbound bus stop on the North Strand has finally been closed and moved out the road by 100 yards (quite close to Newcommen bridge).

I'm wondering whether this is a permanent move because the Portland Row stop has been moved permanently much closer to the Five Lamps junction. So if the North Strand stop does revert back to it's original location you'll end up with 2 bus stops within around 200 yards of each other. This would be very odd indeed given that the outbound stop on the other side of Newcommen bridge is being removed permanently (as far as I am aware) making quite a big gap between the North Strand and the Annesley Bridge stops.