Dun Laoghaire Traffic & Commuting Chat

So if Newtownpark has always been backed up why would DLR even consider closing Deansgrange Road Northbound.

Anyone with a titter of wit would know the traffic would divert to Newtownpark Ave.

Newtownpark Ave has two schools on it, soon to be three, why would anyone think its clever to send thousands of cars extra a day onto it. Its never been so bad, cant wait for Deansgrange works to be done.

That cycle path gets a 1, it should immediately be restored to vehicular use, even DLR have stopped mentioning numbers using it as its embarrassing.

Its not fair to close Tivoli Road when that traffic will move to narrow roads in Monkstown Farm, are children in social housing not entitled to a traffic free environment too.

Much better to stick DL and Dalkey bound traffic onto the coastal road, buses too,its a no brainer.

Also all this apartment building without parking spaces is beyond thick too, new apartment block in stillorgan, units selling for 800,000€ and minscule parking, so many older people in five, six bed houses, want to stay locally but will not downsize if there isnt parking for themselves and parking for visitors.

No joined up thinking at all.

Is that the upgrade thats to remove right turns into housing estates on stillorgan park and the left turn onto the N11 at Stillorgan, this will cause traffic snarl up in both directions.

The buses which are supposed to take people out of their cars will be caught up in it too.

As it is drivers are already doing u turns on carysfort ave to get to Stillorgan via Priory and back again.

The council intend to put a stop gap system on convent road, this will cause mayhem, the montage they are using to promote this shows cool young couples with coffee cups in hand waiting at a plaza outside the gates, the obligatory cyclist without helmet is there too.

The residents living on the road will see the parking outside their houses relocated to the opposite side of the road, the school applied for this seemingly but told the council it wasnt to be implemented in term time.

No one will be able to get onto convent road from the village, from carysfort avenue or from Mount Merrion etc, this includes the staff who will have to leave home much earlier, the mummies who like to throw the children at the teachers so they can go to pilates or tennis lessons or a sea swim will be delayed too as unless teacher is present at the door classes stay outside and parents need to supervise.

Dont think the cargo bike lovers thought this through

It will probably cost a few hundred thousand to implement and will then have to be abandoned.

I have no idea how people travel where they want to go, couldnt care less, who am I to pass judgment, I will leave that to you.

I didnt find it funny and doubt if the women who ended up underneath the bench did either, they were lucky they didnt break their necks.

Get off the bus at stillorgan village and walk to john of gods, the only sign painted on the only path is that of a bike, this is not a cycle path, its a shared path so there should be a pedestrian sign on the footpath too.

There are far more pedestrians than there are cyclists and footpaths they use should not have bike signs painted on them.

This is happening all along the N11, its obliterating the presence of pedestrians and the pedestrians are far more vulnerable than the men on bikes, its is mostly men who cycle so their requirements need to be lower in the pecking order than that of pedestrians..

Anywhere the path is shared has a bike sign only placed on it erroneously giving the impression it is a cycle path.

These paths are shared space so cyclists need to slow down, a painted bicycle sign on a path that pedestrians use indicates that it is a bicycle lane, it isnt,pedestrian signs as well as cycle signs need to be painted on the path to indicate to cyclists that they need to slow down or else cycle at speed in the bus lane.