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.
I assume they are wasting a small amount of money in order to avoid wasting a huge amount of money implementing this nonsense everywhere. I mean, I'm hoping the point of this trial is to prove that these lights are a pile of crap which nobody (neither pedestrian nor cyclist) will use.
I assume they have some way of monitoring the effects of the lights otherwise I don't see how it would work as a trial.
Hard to imagine how disability campaigners are concerned with this. There are several junctions across the city that are completely impassible with a wheelchair and many streets also. And the NTA also has planning permission to make more streets impassible for wheelchair users due to their failure to meet their own design standards for bus corridors. These are real issues that they could tackle
There is that one disability campaigner who is driven primarily by a blind hatred of cycling. And he does seem to have some influence. Maybe this is just to shut him up.
Is that the same disability campaigner who said this about Ciaran Cannon when he discussed his crash...?
A story from a rabid cyclist who hates motor vehicles and refuses to wear the RSA approved safety gear. Hobble on.
DCC are doing a consultation on the Clontarf-CityCentre cycle path: https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/M7HHBR8
They are only short of putting a lollipop person at each bus stop. The world is gone mad if nonsense like this can get green lit.
Looks like there’s still nothing much happening at the Baths? Such a shame for what could be a fabulous cafe and community facility. Kills me looking at pictures of the fabulous lidos in the UK and that pool lying there with restricted or no access at all to the community.
It’s probably too big for a cafe. The little horse box across the road does good trade, but overheads are obviously way lower. And then there’s a few other coffee options not too far away on vernon avenue.
Wonder if the lads on Scramblers doing wheelies at high speed down Amiens Street will stop at the new bike lights?
This comment wins the internet today!
I think idea of it was a little over romanticised
The pool is operational, you can pay to use it whenever you want, however most open water swimmers will just use the sea thats free alongside it, anyone with kids need an indoor pool like Westwood, CRC, or the DCC pools
https://www.clontarfoutdoorpool.com/
The restaurant wasn't great for food, wasn't going to get people going out of the way, and a little bit too remote for any passing traffic. I went for a night out there once but it was a taxi there and taxi back job, very nice location to look out on the water when the weather was nice in the summer, but became any other restaurant once darkness fell.
The greenway on the canal opens from north strand to summerhill Friday week I think
Update:
Noticed that earlier. So that's that then? No cars parked means people won't have issue seeing cyclists?
I guess so. They removed the street light too. I imagine people will be parking up on that bark in no time.
That bark is prime white van location alright.
Yes, I was thinking exactly that! They need something that sticks out of the ground and blocks vans, but isn't too high either. Like low height bollards.
Also it is lacking the red paint on the cycle path.
Unless, of course, they're on their phones…
Maybe some kind of orange plastic bollard. 😂
LOL, I was thinking that too and I wouldn't be surprised if they did!
Perhaps something like these would be a good option:
Or a slightly bigger version of them, like this:
Could be a good spot for a few campervans even.
I drove onto this side street last week before the works were completed and even as a cyclist I can see it being problematic. I think it's the fact that you have to cut across a bus lane combined with the side road joining the main road at a bend. Obviously I was being extra cautious and I was still worried that some car or bike would come out of nowhere!
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1179417287562630&id=100064831084494
I just can't lol. Half the commenters think the footage was staged. Humans don't deserve this earth!
Not on FB and it won't let me see it - what is it?
It's a bunch of cyclists using the cycle lane. Lots of claims that they are paid actors. Even the most mundane things these days have to be a conspiracy!
It’s hilarious. They just won’t accept it’s a success, even after seeing it with their own eyes.
surface being redone to stop water from pooling.
Bet you all missed this thread. They put these markings in last night, for the little school. Why none on the roads though where the actual killing machines are? Same coming out of marino crescent, ped crossing for the bike lane but none for the slip road that's always full of trucks.
Is it just the "nearly got hit by a maniac cyclist" brigade pushing for these things?
Adding something to make you look down surely isn't the best way to improve safety for pedestrians?
Or are they designed to induce children to play on the cycle track?
