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

Good luck in finding the space to maintain footpath width, some parking at locations, a bus lane and a traffic lane in either direction and a wider cycle lane on top of that!

Like Ireland's attempts at decent public transport infrastructure, completely swamped from day 1.

It was clear the design lacked ambition but it was a good proposal for it's day, it's just that this was proposed about 10 years ago and times have moved on. It just takes so long to get things done in Ireland. I expect the bus connects corridors will also be over subscribed from day 1 when they are eventually complete.

The clontarf scheme was clearly set up to maximise road space for cars. We still have 6 lanes of traffic in Fairview ffs. I could see a supplementary scheme to reduce the traffic lanes and provide some wider footpaths and bike lanes for some sections.

The public realm in fairview is still crap, that's my main issue. The building side is very isolated from the park side. You have to use a motorway style ped over bridge to get across. There needs to be a lot more ambition.

really it should have a pedestrian crossing or two instead of the footbridge, I don't think it would even slow traffic down that much in the grand scheme of things.

I wouldn't be happy trying to cross that road on a pedestrian crossing. To many people happy to break lights, drive up buslanes and park wherever they like. Wouldn't be safe imo

Well that's exactly what is in the plan from my reading of the documents. The junction at Edge's corner when finished will be completely different. It will a single straight across pedestrian crossing. This compared to the horrible go halfway across and be stuck in a metal cage with 5 lanes of traffic around you before crossing all the way.

In addition to the footbridge, which is useful for many (obviously not wheelchairs or less mobile), there is a new level ped crossing going in at Marino Mart beside the Greenland coffee shop per the plans.

DCC also need to add Fairview to their pressure washing programme. The new paving needs regular washing to look good. At the moment around there it looks like a dump with litter and filthy paving.

I wouldn't agree. Motorists break the lights regularly here.

Funny thing about cycling lanes, and I see it often, is that one cyclist doesn't like the speed others are going at or it just gets too full for their liking and they go into the bus lane or regular car lanes. And hundreds of commuters can follow their ass for the next 20 minutes.

This scenario doesn't ever happen in Dublin never mind on the route this thread is discussing

My reward for taking the bike to town in this weather, there were 2 more after this inside the old wall too ffs.

They could easily have pulled into the street beside cusacks too

Is it time to start sending any of these photos to some person or department in DCC (preferably with the licence plate) for action? I know they'll probably just ignore them but if they were getting them all the time at least it would make a point.

Streets look a lot nicer if there aren't endless rows of bollards on them but if the result of that is that cycle lanes are rendered unusable because of idiots like this then the whole purpose of segregration becomes pointless. There's been a lot of money and time spent on this link (irrespective of people's feelings about it) and it's wasted if there isn't a change in attitudes.

I say this as a complete non-cyclist so no agenda here.