So the balls-up has started since last night which makes Fairview from clontarf to Edges corner a single lane with bollards down the centre.
This will be a permanent feature and works will take 21 months.
Exactly, there is some serious gentrification happening in that area, lots of expensive apartments going up, lots of new offices.
With a constant flow of bikes and folks walking dogs etc. going into the park on this new path, it will very quickly self police itself.
Funny enough the other poster admits that other parts of the park are fine. But 20+ years ago they weren't, but DCC put a lot of work into improving the park, big play grounds, skate park, playing fields, etc. which has brought life and activity into the park that discourages anti-social behaviour. This new cycle path will add to it.
Not sure if this article was posted yet, sounds like bad driving as much as bad infrastructure
There was a case on the Howth Road last year of a child coming out of St Brigids BNS being hit by a car.
The solution was that there is now a lollypop man stationed at the pedestrian lights pressing the button everytime a child comes a long. When the green man come on he walks out on the road to stop the traffic.
Another time I saw a car reverse through these lights while the kids were crossing the road behind him as he was made a mess of things and stopped in a yellow box. He would rather put kids in danger than inconvenience another car driver even slightly. He got a few choice words that day.
Seems like we will do everything other than enforcement in this country.
Once the good weather comes in you'll see the usual lot drinking cans and doing whatever else it is they do.
Same crazy stuff up on Griffith Avenue, lollipop person at the pedestrian crossing, only goes on the road when the pedestrian lights go green.
It is a great example of how dangerous some motorists are and how often they break pedestrian lights that this is necessary.
My daughter reckons she can spot a drug dealer anywhere from her experiences in Fairview Park as a kid. 😝
yeah and it’s absolutely necessary as you point out. Some of the stuff that goes on there in the morning time is crazy. The people who drive up the path and park there on the opposite side of the road to the school boils my blood. How lazy do you have to be?
might be me you're talking about, i'd often have a couple of cans in the park during nice weather. i don't bite don't worry.
Give me a shout the next time and I might join you 😁
Boards bag o'cans day. 😍
ah here lads
Scum.
is that why there’s a lollipop man at the lights? I drive through a different set of pedestrian lights with a lollipop lady, always thought it was overkill and ridiculous but I guess I was wrong.
It happens all over the city. Drivers have no respect for the rules of the road, even when it’s directly outside of schools. Sometimes the main culprits are the parents themselves of course.
Both motorists and cyclists aren't great at obeying lights. But it's not cyclists that kill people.
Yes, you are wrong. If you stand at any set of traffic lights and observe, you'll see why. It's a sad but true fact that human attendants are necessary at traffic lights - even ones outside schools - to 'encourage' people to use the lights properly. Stand at the corner of the Luke Kelly Bridge and Poplar Row for 10 minutes some weekday morning and look at how the parents and kids en route to nearby schools have to dodge traffic coming through the red lights while they try to cross safely.
the most blatant red light breaking you'll see is Ossary Road where it comes out onto the bridge. Sometimes 4 or 5 cars go through the red after they've turned, and then they go through the new pedestrian crossing. The lack of enforcement on anything traffic related is crazy these days.
Strange to be so confrontational.
Yes, that's a bad one too. I think Poplar Row is worse though as the cars are speeding through the junction straight ahead.
Not at all. Just agreeing with the very last part of your post, and pointing out why it is certainly not 'overkill' to have lollipop people near schools.
Starting to come together nicely in sections of the outgoing part along Fairview. Although I have no idea how they plan to finish all the work required by June. My best guess is September at the earliest before it's fully complete.
The inbound section along the park is nice, so nice in fact that many walkers like to use the bike lane even though theirs a lovely new path for them inside the park that runs parallel to it for them to us.
yeah there has been some progress, but also still some massive trenches dug up around where the road splits to ballybough that i can't see being covered any time soon, still so much to do.
Drive you bonkers.
What is it with a***holes in this country.
Pedestrians walking on cycle lanes with footpaths nearby.. Cyclists cycling on footpaths with cycle lanes nearby.
Drives me mad.
Motorists driving on footpaths with roads nearby!
I'm not forgiving that for a second, but the volume of cars at that school (and pretty much every school in Dublin) is absolutely ridiculous at drop off and collection times. Walking by you'll often hear parents complaining about the traffic, when they are the traffic. The difference on the roads this and last week is stark. If more parents would walk/cycle their kids to school the volume of traffic would be much safer around the schools.
Cars driving in bus lanes with car lanes nearby ....
Absolutely and zero enforcement
At the moment that junction still should have no cars coming up Ossory Road turning left, but as you say, no enforcement. In rush hour, the first car through (if a left turner) will often be unable to complete the turn which makes the second one get stuck in the narrow gap at the top of Ossory Road. All it takes is a gom behind and they cannot reverse back down the hill and so start jamming everything up, but all caused by the illegal left turner.
Old lady almost caused an accident on the dodgy corner, with two bikes in either direction. Pointed out that she was on the cycle path, and where the footpath was, but she was having none of it.
Yes, not only is that fence dangerous to cyclists, it traps any pedestrian that makes a mistake from moving onto the right path. It's so bizarre that they didn't move it back further.
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