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.
Sigh. Will prob mean more bollards and concrete blocks and the likes at entrances.
Those huge concrete slabs are a horrendous 'solution '. There's one at the entrance to the park at the Malahide Road junction which is so awkwardly placed it makes it difficult to access by bike.
Another huge design flaw I've noticed is the section between Fairview Park and Alfie Byrne Road. There is plenty of space here for a 2 way section of cycle track. Nobody in their right mind will leave Fairview Park, cross the road, cycle towards Clontarf then cross back again to access the seafront cycle track.
I've already seen several militant cyclists and pedestrians blocking and abusing cyclists for slowly cycling contra flow between the park and Alfie Byrne.
Remember the bus stops that were removed from North Strand have to be put back too and this will impact the cycle lanes on both sides. Considering the pace they work at, I would be amazed if both stops were finished for a June date.
One stop has to be put back close to Strandville Avenue, where they swapped a bus stop for car parking spaces and the other is to go under the bridge close to Nottingham Street, where they said there was not room, but apparently there is now.
On a fun note, Ossory Road will be closed this weekend.
yeah when i come out of westwood i go to the alfie byrne road to get home via the bike bath, going the wrong way. i just get out of the way if anyone's coming towards me but yes i'm not going to cross the road twice.
Yep it is a major and obvious design flaw.
And it is stupid as there should be plenty of space there for a two way track or a shared track.
Designers and planners really need to consider desire paths in their designs.
Don't mention that section! Been discussed extensively just a few pages back. 😂
at the rate they're going i can't see it finished in 2024 tbh. they've been trying to lay a bit of cycle track from east point to down the east wall road a bit now for months too. it's just astonishing how long something so simple like that can take.
4 Years on Griffith Avenue for a "quick build cycle path" which isn't much more then some paint and a bit of concrete curb! 🙄
It just shows how many people have a problem with this section and the fact that it really is a problem.
Walked past the new car parkling spaces a few minutes ago. There are two markings for 'Ramp' and a couple of the yield markings sprayed on the cycle lane so it looks like that bit will be dug up again. Not quite sure what ramps in the middle of a cycle lane are for - to slow people down? Who knows with this project.
They had certain criteria for the bus stops that they didn't want to stray from, hence why those locations weren't suitable.
Now they have somewhat changed their tack after all the backlash recieved and will add those stops back in, but not to the same design/standard as the other stops (hence why only the 130 is planned to use these stops)
Makes no sense having only one bus route stop there. That will presumably be reversed too.
The Brookwood Avenue to link Beaumont/Coolock/Artane to C2C cycle path is still in design phase, which will take a considerable time more according to correspondence I've seen from a local councillor.
Classic public sector approach really, take years to get any work done.
i'm from brookwood originally and i can't see how that will get built. brookwood ave folks will be going nuts. don't know how they'll manage it on vernon ave either.
it's funny because everyone says the griffith avenue one is empty all the time, and it probably is for the most part, but i use it to get to work in the mornings now and it's actually quite busy with kids going to school and people going to work at 0830 when i'm there. brookwood ave would probably be the same.
They actually laid the kerb dividers to separate bikes from car and got them wrong. So they had to dig them up and start again.
Agree with you there. The pace is glacial and some sections seem to be going backwards.
I can assure you only idiots say that. Despite being a poor attempt at a cycle lane, it is well used now, I've previously posted pics of large numbers of users on this cycle path.
why do you think the opposition is so strong? The road is really wide and everyone on it has a massive driveway IIRC - albeit they love to leave their cars on the main road.
All of the other stops that are being installed are being built to a standard that allows up to three buses to serve the stop at one time - there isn't the space at the two locations for that length of bus stop - they will only have space for one bus at a time.
Hence the plan for them to be served by the 130 (and in due course the BusConnects route 10).
Now you could probably add the planned routes 8 and 58 to that in due course to give a reasonable frequency overall, while not overloading the two stops in terms of buses waiting to serve it.
for the stop go last night on north strand road they had a massive trench dug in the middle of the road. must be doing something with pipes, looked nearly 2 meters deep. and still on social media they're all going nuts that this is about a cycle lane.
Deep into the bridge tonight. This stretch seems to be the trickiest part. Lads will be out all night I'd say. At this stage I'm pretty obsessed with these roadworks!
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Just after your video stopped you would have gone over the weird 'ramps' sprayed on the cycle lane. What do you think that is for? They must be going to dig it up again.
What happens now at stops if there is a convoy of buses, is as one moves off, the next moves up. There is no reason whatsoever they could not do the same to let the person stuck on the 15, H1,H3 or whatever, get off at what was stop 617 or the one across the road (the 'special 130 stops'), instead of ferrying them 300 plus yards up the road. It wouldn't delay anyone.
It's a daft decision, like the original decision to replace the bus stop with parking spaces - same body making these decisions? NTA?
Passing by the Westwood gym on the cycle lane I noticed that the Queuing cars were waiting patiently on the road for their turn to go into the carpark, maybe they've all been told?
(I won't mention the wobbly cyclist coming against the direction of travel though..)
Big help is the fact now cars can't cross from ooutbound lane. Hopefully this stays.
Buses queuing up and serving stops one by one does actually cause additional journey time to be added. Multiply that all along a route and it adds up.
The whole point of the core bus corridors is to try to improve the flow of bus movement - hence the larger bus stops that multiple buses can serve at the same time.
I think that if you have the three routes that I mentioned stopping there then it will be a good compromise.
Witnessed a downside to this earlier. BMW X5 driving inbound crossed over just before the railway bridge, then drove the wrong was down the road, to turn up Charlemont Lane. Hit a cyclist along the way.
good grief! Were they hurt?
But unless the buses leave the bus lane they will always be behind the one in front, so it would make no difference surely?
One cross city bus, ideally the 24 hour 15 would be good. The 15 and 27 would be ideal.
What a tool.
Also saw car outbound going wrong way up bus lane at howth rd jnct to get to westwood.
The chances of getting ticket for road offence in Dublin is so low ppl take risks.
They will leave the bus lane to overtake the stopped bus, they do that all over the city every day!
The stop I normally use is an example of that, it serves multiple routes, if one bus is stopped at the stop, unless someone specifically waves it down or rings the bell to get off, the other buses on the corridor will go around it. Buses leap frog one another all along the route into town. Saves a lot of time.
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