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

Sympathetic? Don't be. Let this be absolutely clear, they did not carry out any consultation on this decision.

There were 2x inbound stops on Amiens street. They decided to remove the stop at Preston Street, despite Irish Rail submitting plans for a new Dart Station entrance BEFORE the bus stop changes were announced.

Instead, they retained the Amiens street stop closer to the Five Lamps / Seville Place. I suspect this is to connect with the future orbital bus route, however if they carried out any consulting, they would have moved the Newcommen / Canal stop closer to the Five Lamps and retained the Preston Street and North Strand (617) stops.

Whoever signed off on the new barrier arrangement on the outbound section just before Edges corner needs to be immediately fired. It's unbelievably dangerous for cyclists and vehicles the way it protrudes into the inside lane and creates a dangerous pinch point.

I find the green on that map extremely hard to view if I'm honest.

So my understanding is that Stop 515 (Portland Row) has moved closer to the Five Lamps and Stop 516 (North Strand) has moved closer to the bridge but the distance between then has actually reduced from 289 to 258 meters. Stop 518 is then being removed so the next stop will then be Stop 519 at Poplar Row some 586 metres further out. That's quite an uneven split in distances.

One wonders why they didn't consider moving Stop 516 over the bridge thus smoothing out the distances between the stops? If it had moved 150 yards further out the distances would then have been 408 and 436 metres which would seem far more practical.

Where the new Stop 516 has been place is also on a hill. The road rises up to Newcomen Bridge as you leave the city to cross the canal and railway and then descends on the far side. The gradient isn't that steep on either side. I don't see much difference in placing it on either side of the bridge.

Had a good look at the cycle lane as it exists from Fairview to Amiens Street from the upper deck of a 27 last Thursday. It seems to be coming along well for the most part and looks fairly decent, although the junction at Annesley Bridge iteself seems a bit odd. There's a bit of work to be done here so it wasn't entirely apparent how the lane will operate.

Is there an official date for when the inbound side finishes? I'd be hopeful that it might be done in time for the schools returning at the end of August when traffic volumes step up again.

Also any know if there are plans to remove the inbound restrictions for normal traffic once that side of the road is complete?

Did you have to cycle around them was it?

The car was in the cycle lane, so was the poster just taking a picture of a car that wasn't impacting their journey? Am I not allowed to ask that question?

I actually parked my car correctly in the available spaces, then spotted a lady and a man manoeuvring around the car who was parked away from the proper spaces and obstructing the bike Lane.

There are actual parking spaces here and they couldn’t manage that. I drive around Dublin as much as I cycle. So please don’t see me as anti car to suit your narrative.

There is a whole thread on it here

I have posted a few time on it myself.

The last few posts have been a discussion about a photo taken on Griffith Avenue and again I'm asking for everyone to keep the thread on topic as this scheme/project is one of the largest/most important being built for mixed-modal transport in Dublin right now.

One thing I've noticed is that progress really slowed down over July - I can imagine holidays would explain it, but is it common that holidays would be concentrated in July/school holidays in the industry?

Also where the MGWR bridge over North Strand seems to have the space for proper bus stops along with the 4 lane and cycle track design. I feel this should have been done, possibly along with keeping stops near Fairview hall (even if the distance would be rather short between the two). But maybe I'm overlooking something important there.

What is really bizaare is the removal of the bus stops nearer Buckingham Street/Connolly Station in favour of stops *even closer* to the retained stops between five lamps and Newcomen Bridge. The road profile between 5 lamps and the loop line overpass is basically the same throughout and hindering transfer journeys on public transport seems daft.