National Cycle Network (NCN) Road Space Re-Allocation Pilot (R448) Moone to Timolin

An excellent summary from the OP— in short this is a ludicrous proposal designed to solve a non-existent problem on a straight stretch of road that will inconvenience many cycling clubs/groups/individuals who use this road regularly with close to zero cycling incidents/accidents, that has close to zero support nor any apparent benefit locally. Submissions from sensible individuals would really help reverse this waste of resources. I note that this area is frequented by lots of cycling groups, sportives and the occasional cycling race/event; never seen/heard any issue with cyclists in this area at all, and I live in the area

I was thinking that too, an ideal road to implement it on, but that just might be a proximity bias 😀.

If this trial works well, it really could be a great network

So this is 'test' using a perfectly good section of road— it doesn't link any town or village to anything else. It just looks like a waste of resources to me; the likelihood that it will attract increased individuals 'cycling for transport' is probably close to zero based on local soundings

I'm on this route pretty much every time I cycle my bike and definitely every time I TT train. It is currently the safest stretch of road I use. The thought that I would have to cede priority three times where I would normally be cycling between 25-40+kmph just boils my blood.

Further along this road, closer to Castledermot, it narrows to having no hard shoulder. Now along here I have been passed so fast and so close that one time I got off my bike and had a wee cry for myself in the ditch before being able to get back up and cycle home on the perfectly wide and safe hard shoulder.

They are fixing a problem that does not exist and not actually tackling the real (and probably far more expensive) issue.

I use this as a cyclist very often, the road was resurfaced, I.E chippings last year and they left it worse than it was, after a bridge on it there's a bump heading northbound that's lethal!

I'm glad this has finally come to light; this damning report speaks for itself. It highlights in an audited professional way exactly the dangers that were flagged by interested parties right from the start. A total of 22 specific dangers- some serious red flags-- are outlined in detail. And bearing in mind the cost over runs up to now, it will cost even more to try 'fix' this mess. The only sensible decision here is to dig it up before someone suffers the consequences.

There is a really significant shortfall in competency in the design, construction and the supposed future maintenance of this type of installation and I just wish the cycling public would rally around this fact, instead of trying to justify it. This is uttely shambolic - that's not hyperbolic- and a concerted campaign to stop the continued waste of resources is entirely justified.

At every instance where concerns have been raised about the dangers of this project, the media or political figures have managed to wheel out 'cyclists' who argue that this grand plan for active travel and a national cycling network built to the same/similar standards as the above-mentioned project, will be 'great when it's finished' (or words to that effect). Heard plenty examples first hand.. .'I cycle me bike and I think its a great idea' etc etc.

What's interesting over the past couple years has been that some of the cycling 'advocates' supporting this project haven't even ridden a bike on the lane at all— seeing is believing.

Cycling groups are the only ones calling out bad designs on a regular basis, your comment couldn't be further from the truth.