Near Misses Volume 2 (So close you can feel it)

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

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.

Yeah, no I agree with you there… ignorance, incompetence and stupidity is equal across every demographic from my experience.

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.

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.

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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.

Doesn't help that pedestrians must wait for an age for the green man to appear.

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.

"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 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.

And Dublin Bus don’t seem to be bothered either! (Can’t understand why they aren’t calling for more bus lane enforcement!)

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.