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Fair enough, I'll respectfully disagree.
You can see his head jolt forwards when he hits the car. I don't think anyone would voluntarily put themselves in that position, especially not in an instinctive split-second decision. Also, he's not cycling uphill. This is Parnell Place in Cork, sandwiched between the two arms of the Lee river. It's flat as a pancake.
junction of Collins Ave. + Swords Rd. this morning. Really getting pissed off with red light jumpers coming from the Beaumount direction, turning right onto the Swords Rd., heading north. Traffic was backed up and tried to steer through the hold-up only to be clipped by a long-van driver who bulled through. Stayed up, but he clipped my brake lever with the end of his van
Just the old attempted murder coming up to these lights today. Cars as usual parked in the dedicated parking spots with bike signs on them.
Lights going red as I passed the car currently parked just before the colour change on the cycle lane and I was moseying up going to turn right and a car overtakes me as I'm still on the left of the lane. Space there but he just cuts in front of me and I'd to swerve to avoid contact with him. Was very close.
I was like WTF but continued past him into the red box. He slides up and rolls down his window to say I should be in the cycle lane. I completely lost it with him. I was like do you not see the cars there? Told him to get away from me and moved further up. He continues forward and says the same thing again. By this point I'm just like fúck off and get away from me, the light had gone green and the car behind beeped him so I could only really go straight at this point so continued on.he was beside me right through the junction until I could get on the naturally blocked with cars cycle lane the other side.
Didn't get his reg or anything but at least the guy behind stopped and gave me the "what an asshole".
Amazing how brave men (and it's nearly always men) feel when behind the wheel of a large vehicle with the doors locked. Asshole is an understatement for people like that. You just hope karma is keeping score.
For aggressive bullying? We must cycle very different roads. No doubt, just as many poor female drivers, but if I hear a car on the accelerator two feet behind me, or punishment pass, or if someone rolls down a window to hurl abuse, 8 times out of 10 for me its a man.
Yeah, no I agree with you there… ignorance, incompetence and stupidity is equal across every demographic from my experience.
I'd never go as far down the road of passive aggression as to interfere with someone's car. There are just too many possible unintended consequences that aren't worth it, no matter how strong the temptation. Just my personal view.
I know you told me to fcuk off and mind my own business but to the person with the two little kids in the cargobike who goes down the Lusk and Rush road in the mornings, would you ever have a bit of concern for your kids safety and ditch that cargobike.
I go up on the path cycling that road because its fcking dangerous to cycle on. Most people cycling do. I know you wont fit on the path but Jesus think about those two kids. Ive seen you nearly get clipped a few times now. If you dont care about yourself, think about your kids.
You may think that its up to the people driving cars to avoid you, but not everyone in a car cares. While they are idiots and in the wrong, its your kids who will suffer. Dont do this to them.
Maybe post a message to the drivers on the Motors forum.
The drivers arent going to stop someone putting their kids lives at risk on a cargo bike on a dangerous road. All of the drivers that care about them are being more careful around them, but the ones that dont care arent going to be changing anything.
So now the chice becomes. Bring your kids on to the firing range and trust the people shooting to follow the rules and look out for you, or dont take the chance at all with your kids.
Its the driver picking his nose or changing the radio station on one of those new giant ipads that cars have now that id be worried about hitting them. Every driver is careful, until they arent. Nobody maintains 100% concentration at all times even if the law seems to think they can.
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Had the closest call for a long long time on Saturday afternoon there - cycling from phibsboro back towards Iona Road; as I often do, dismounted and came across the pedestrian cross through the traffic Island, and again through the pedestrian crossing.
Traffic very heavy.
Van stopped in middle lane, I am walking past it with the bike.
Car tears through the lights in the bus lane, like serious 50k an hour job, never saw the red light. If it had been two seconds later I was toast, and the people beside me.
have always found that junction a bit sketchy due to it's tight run from the Phibs end, to Iona
Doesn't help that pedestrians must wait for an age for the green man to appear.
Blind bend? Check. Lorry? Check. Oncoming traffic? Check.
Luckily the driver of the white Nissan was switched on, and stopped with their hazards on to let the truck through.
Absolutely mental carry on.
The van behind just as bad. Can't seem to see past the truck but over the line and attempting to overtake.
May as well report that on the Garda website and see if anything comes of it.
https://garda.ie/en/trafficwatchreport/
F*** me that is awful. And in that position he would have been able to see the car just as he started, loads of time to not proceed with the manoeuvre.
Thanks, submitted. Last time I reported to AGS, I did so in my local station and nothing seemed to come of it.
Van behind is as bad. I cut off the video, but he goes for the overtake again after the cars you see in the video have passed. Only to be encountered by another oncoming car, and he bails out of it.
Really need to get me a couple of reliable, user-friendly, wallet-friendly cameras for the bike. Actually also want to get them for the car too, just so much crazy out there these days.
Overtaking on a solid line is an offence in itself nevermind the close pass so certainly should be acted upon.
"should be" is the key concept here. A bit like moderation on this site in Current Affairs… enforcement is just aspirational a lot of the time. There's a post on the Ukraine thread joking about texting while driving in the rain on the N17… won't hold my breath on anything being done about it. I'd say if you showed the Gardai footage where the 'only' offence is someone overtaking on a solid white line they'd just shrug their shoulders.
I've been using a helmet mounted Techalogic for a few years. It's not perfect by any means but it does the job well enough. When this one dies I'd probably get another.
I've said it so many times - bus lane enforcement cameras would pay for themselves and eliminate the problem of cars in bus lanes.
It's a plain-as-day solution that generates income and needs a tiny amount of Garda resourcing.
It would never fly precisely because it would be so successful. RSA/government are big on urging but draw the line at annoying motorists.
And Dublin Bus don’t seem to be bothered either! (Can’t understand why they aren’t calling for more bus lane enforcement!)
At the side of the airport today - a driver coming towards me may have been distracted by a landing aircraft, but he managed to drop the two passenger side wheels off the road, and the car bounced quite visibly as he quickly corrected with a hard jerk to the right - the verge at the side is a couple of inches lower than the tarmac where it happened. But for a split second he was pointed at me and I was thinking 'i hope he keeps control of that'.
The Gardai for some reason just have a complete aversion to anything technological, body cams, the online portal where users can upload footage, bus lane cameras, even up until recently ANPR, which was only rolled out across the fleet in 2022 despite being in place for years in other countries.
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