So the balls-up has started since last night which makes Fairview from clontarf to Edges corner a single lane with bollards down the centre.
This will be a permanent feature and works will take 21 months.
There used to be tight security there!
I don't understand it, surely the wardens would pay for themselves quite quickly. All around Dublin it would be fish in a barrel for the first while anyway. Most estates around the place are plagued with people just parking wherever.
If they had someone outside schools on main roads too fining people maybe that would also cut out the pointless driving to schools that a bus drives by every 10 minutes that is held up by these people.
I guess it's another case of having to going easy on the hard pressed motorist...
I'd say it's a culture in DCC and Garda and everywhere really of ah no we can't be fining the hard pressed motorist for pulling in and blocking the footpath to get his elderly mothers prescription type thing.
This is why we have to cover the city in bollards as enforcement isn't a thing.
At least all the new Sheffield stands on this route work as bollards too somewhat.
DCC say that they worry about the risk to the safety of the wardens -
https://dublininquirer.com/2024/09/18/if-cork-city-can-have-community-wardens-with-the-power-to-enforce-parking-and-littering-laws-why-cant-dublin-city/
He said he’d worry about the safety of the community wardens when confronting, and trying to fine, people doing the wrong thing. “Any service will have to really consider the safety of the people out in the streets.”
I always thought that parking in non-designated parking spots in the city centre should be illegal. The amount of cars just parked up on kerbs in private estates is crazy, especially when the majority of the car owners' homes have a front yard where they could park!
It is illegal. But if absolutely nobody ever enforces it then it becomes defacto legal.
Why would there need to be any interaction? Slap a fine on their windshield and if they don't pay send them letters and a court summons. Works elsewhere.
yeah and now that it's the norm you can't really reverse it as households with multiple cars have set their lives up around being able to park there. really this should never have been tolerated in the first place that way people who need 3 cars in a house for whatever reason just wouldn't live in places that didn't have the room for them or they'd manage to live without cars. public transport would probably be a lot better as it would have been more important to voters over the years.
I just mean in general, not just the parking on footpaths. There are plenty of streets in Dublin which are wide enough for on-street parking but they are not designated. Get all cars off the streets I say. They're unsightly.
I don't get it, Cork City has had traffic wardens for decades, they help control illegal parking and earn the city money.
if you saw a really handsome guy going over the handlebars after a bag got stuck in his front wheel in the bike lane around fairview park that was yours truly here. a fractured elbow and cast for a few weeks! no damage anywhere except right arm as you instinctively put it out front and it absorbed the entire fall, i guess i was lucky there were no other cyclists behind me or i wasn't on a road.
btw the minor injury HSE clinic in smithfield is fantastic, seen almost immediately and x-rayed. wonderful service for 75 euros.
But, is the bike ok?
Yeah enough about your elbow, HOWS THE BIKE?!
Ha yeah the bag is still rammed between fork and wheel, I can't get it out with one arm but I think it's OK
But, is the cycle lane okay after you viciously attacked it with your bike and body? I’ve seen enough stories in the Sun to tell me how violent you bloody cyclists can be!
does anyone know what's going on with the greenway between north strand and phibsboro? it's like they've just left it now for what seems like years.
Royal canal Greenway due for completion in Q2 2025- https://www.dublincity.ie/residential/transportation/active-travel/projects/royal-canal-greenway-phase-3
Got an email saying Clontarf to city cycleway officially opening on 28th Nov so seems like are confident of finishing it in next 4 weeks....
Was pretty sure that I got an update on it recently that said it was delayed until mid 25 due to the ESB, and this is buried in the construction updates:
Continue with the installation of new ducting services, including testing and proofing of high voltage ESB ducting along the south-side canal towpath between Binns Bridge and Spain’s warehouse (rear of no. 23 St Ignatius road). Continue with the construction of the new cycle track and footpath in this area. These works are not due for completion until March 2025 as ESB HV ducting must to be installed in the Binns Bridge east-side ramp structure to comply with ESB proofing and testing requirements i.e. testing and proofing of the HV ESB ducting can only be carried out between jointing bays, located at Lock 3 and Portland Place Park.Construction of the Binns Bridge east side ramp structure, including installation on new services (ESB, gas, comms ducting & public lighting ducting). Binns Bridge ramp structure is not due for completion until July / August 2025.
Continue with the installation of new ducting services, including testing and proofing of high voltage ESB ducting along the south-side canal towpath between Binns Bridge and Spain’s warehouse (rear of no. 23 St Ignatius road). Continue with the construction of the new cycle track and footpath in this area. These works are not due for completion until March 2025 as ESB HV ducting must to be installed in the Binns Bridge east-side ramp structure to comply with ESB proofing and testing requirements i.e. testing and proofing of the HV ESB ducting can only be carried out between jointing bays, located at Lock 3 and Portland Place Park.
Construction of the Binns Bridge east side ramp structure, including installation on new services (ESB, gas, comms ducting & public lighting ducting). Binns Bridge ramp structure is not due for completion until July / August 2025.
That sure makes it sound like it won't be done until next summer at least.
EDIT: Bah, I've just realised you were talking about two different projects, and now my post is totally pointless 🤦♂️. Ah well.
Right on time for the election the following day. It's funny how that happens?
I was in Fairview today. Back digging up again outside Kennedy's cafe and further along at the corner of Marino Mart, all taken up, but looks like the start of finally paving there and finishing it off.
I see ESB vans every once in a while, the cables are all still blowing seems like.
Reading this thread recently and was interested in the chatter about racks for locking bikes to. Then I saw this, clearly getting lots of use in St Anne’s Park.
I jog around St Anne's all the time and I swear the car parks are near empty at times too and they're not even covered in brambles etc.
Where are they relative to the things people use in the park? One of the benefits of cycling is your can park at your destination provided there's a lamppost, a fence etc. No point putting a load of stands 5 minutes walk away.
Councils are always putting stands in bad locations just because that's where there's some space, and then they wonder why no-one is using them.
Where is that in the park? I know a few councillors that'd get that cleaned up in no time, and would be quite angry at DCC for letting it get that bad
That's at the Allotments/City Farm.
Can be quite busy at weekends and during summer.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZzwvE8BJHsTLZhWE8
How this is related to bike racks (and cars parking illegally) in Fairview?
They've put Sheffield stands all over the place in recent years but some are in really ridiculous places where no one would ever leave their bike. North Strand and Fairview are covered in them now possibly even overkill but they keep cars off the footpaths too so are also bollards in disguise.
Most of the sheffield stands in Phoenix park seem to be in very odd locations too.
I've reported this to the parks department, and a few councillors. Hopefully we see some action on it, because that's shocking. One thing that occurred to me though, is that carpark open all week, or only when the city farm is open? Because right now it's only open for two hours per day on the weekend, so perhaps it's just that the car park itself is closed and they don't think they need to care for it.
Run by the OPW, who seem to have some 1970's thinking still prevalent. St Annes are DCC, and the Clontarf to City route has some good ones. None outside Tesco though, or at least none that I could see, which is a bit of a missed opportunity.
I appreciate this is off topic, but is there an easy way to report things to DCC? I have a path near me that seriously needs to be cleaned up.
My way of doing it isn't exactly perfect, but google whatever issue you have with DCC on the end, and you'll usually end up near enough.
