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

Ah yeah, I forgot about the actual bike lane. How quickly I get used to them being there. 😂

They need 2 lanes plus the bus lane(>like before), because its needed for a main road connecting North Inner City to North Dublin, Artane, Malahide, Clontarf, Sutton Howth. Its called properly fully utilizing all available road space. If you want trees and plants …then go to Fairview Park!!! 🙄

Absolutely the correct decision to take, we don't need restricting our already stretched roads, If you want space please use the park that runs the length of Fairview Strand. " it would be better to have road as narrow as possible…" Eh WHAT!!!!! Its clear both yourself and Loco Scolo don't drive and have never owned a car. Clearly big fans of deliberately causing traffic congestion at the planning stage.

Pure tosh and whataboutery and throwing about some terms you've heard about makes your point no more valid, if you had ever used a bicycle for commuting to work or to get to an appointment somewhere then you'd appreciate the issues as discussed here, i.e. narrow lanes with no option to overtake.

For someone on a bicycle momentum is everything, bikes don't have an accelerator you can step on like a motor vehicle, they don't have rear view mirrors to see behind, don't have superbright headlights that can be activated with one tap, don't have warning horns… So you see that adequate space for someone who wants to travel at a rate that gets them to work quicker than a bus or car is a perfectly legitimate thing to expect from modern infrastructure.

Leave earlier, if you normally encounter slower cyclists on your route.

With that kind of thinking, there was no point wasting €215,000,000 on the Dunkettle Interchange.

When you're talking to someone who doesn't cycle and has an (not so hidden) agenda against cycle lanes, you may as well tell them to learn Chinese…

Slow drivers can be annoying but generally the speed differential between a slow driver and a driver at the limit isn't all that much and even on a cross country commute might add up to only a few minutes. The speed differential between a slow cyclist and a cyclist doing 25-30km/hr can be huge. Cycling isn't going to work as an alternative to motorised commuting if cyclists end up restricted to young child speed.

I’ve always found the buses slowed down cyclists on that stretch. They would be queued up at bus stops blocking each other rather than cyclists slowing them down.

That corner is going to be deadly if you’re a car turning into St Aidan’s Park. The bikes/scooters will be unrestricted speed-wise. You can just about see them in your wing mirror.

Why can you only just about see something in your wing mirror. This is concerning. Are you wearing the correct prescription eyewear?

Nope, nothing obscuring my view.

All motorists have to do is only move forward when it’s safe to do so.

Not sure what’s difficult about that.

This junction here. Driving up the Malahide Road and taking a left onto St Aidans Park Road. The bikes/scooters now have an unrestricted path to come round the corner at top speed.

Sigh! I've only been using the bus on this route for years now so what would my experience count for. God forbid I should pass a positive comment about the infrastructure change from my point of view. I shold have realised that it's all about the cyclists.