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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    Are those slick paint surfaces that are likely to be super slippy when it rains?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,528 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭Citizen  Six


    While cars are more likely to not stop as the lights turn red, cyclists are more likely to cycle through a red light, at any point during the sequence.
    You see it all the time there, when kids are trying to cross for the school.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,211 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


    I often see cars just go through in the middle of a red light sequence all the time. Particularly at lights that are just a crossing point rather than a road junction.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,334 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    And if it's just a 'yield' sign? Well, that's clearly invisible!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,791 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


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    We spend all that money on roads and no ones even using them



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,791 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


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    2 cars written off right outside entrance to Westwood. No one hurt it seems. It is a total disaster outside the gym every day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭Citizen  Six


    It's really difficult getting out of Westwood. If you need to turn up Howth road, or u turn at the lights, it's always backed up trying to get across traffic to join the queue.

    I spotted those flashing lights earlier, but didn't get close to them.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 4,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭TherapyBoy


    It’s much easier to get out & get where you need to go if you park in the other Westwood carpark (overflow carpark - free for all members) on the Clontarf side of the bridge beside the Dart station carpark. The entrance is about a 100 metre walk from the gym.

    If you’re driving to the Westwood gym in Fairview FROM ANY DIRECTION you now have to drive past the entrance to this other ‘overflow’ carpark. Park in the overflow by the Dart station & you’ll even have more time, space & less stopped traffic to deal with when you’re exiting & it’ll be much easier to get where you need to go.

    Anyone sitting in their cars outside Westwood gym queuing to park their car IN AN ACTIVE TRAFFIC LANE should have their car crushed & their license taken off them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,791 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Any time I've driven there unless it's 6am I go to the overflow. It's baffling how people queue at rush hour to get into the main car park. Sat there for 20 mins looking at their phones. Like f**king Wall-E.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 735 ✭✭✭bbbbb


    That picture is mad. Trying to figure out what happened; either the black car was going the wrong direction (highly unlikely) or was exiting the gym and spun 270 degrees when hit by the red car, but the speed limit should only be 50kph there?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,905 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    and then what? Walk to the gym?! That's crazy talk!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,791 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,334 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    The entrance is about a 100 metre walk from the gym.

    What, you expect people to walk so they can go do their exercise?! You monster! /s

    A huge number of people are just selfish and lazy. Up my way, there's free on-street parking and a free car park that can be used by people using football pitches. Nope. 100m-200m is too far to walk. They park beside the pitches, and **** the cycle path and bus lane. Result? Several grand's worth of steel bollards put in, completely unnecessarily. Result? They park after the bollards instead. 50m is better than 100m, right? 🙄

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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 43,918 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    My own uneducated guess is that the red car was travelling from Clontarf and hit the FR corner of the grey car as it was leaving WW causing the grey one to spin. The red had enough momentum to keep going rather than stop and/or spin. I wonder was the red originally travelling in the bus lane and steered into the next lane or had it been there all along.
    I'd also hazard a guess that the lad standing with the DFB crew is the driver of the red car.

    I wonder if either had a dashcam but at a guess (which is probably incorrect), the red was possibly travelling too fast but the grey pulled out in front of moving traffic - something you'd see quite often there unfortunately.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 65 ✭✭Los Cafeteros


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    Quality parking spotted along the route today!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,211 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


    It must be a psychological problem



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Ben D Bus


    It should really be reported to GoCar with the date and time. It looks bad for them so maybe they'd have a word with whoever had that car at the time. Or maybe they wouldn't or maybe the driver wouldn't care anyway. But if nobody says anything then nobody thinks it's important.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,905 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 65 ✭✭Los Cafeteros


    Fully agree. Took the snaps for purpose of emailing GoCar. Will let you know if any response.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,334 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    It should also be reported to the Gardaí, for that matter! Can be done online and illegal parking is one of the items listed in the dropdown. https://www.garda.ie/en/trafficwatchreport/

    Up near the church opposite Donnycarney Shopping Centre, there are several big planters on the footpath now. Why? Because the footpath was being used by GoCar as their parking lot… 🙄

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Ben D Bus


    Yes. If the Gardai and the City Council take GoCar to task then maybe GoCar will do the same with their customers. My understanding is that the council has turned over parking spaces for club cars, and I've just realised they have free parking in pay-and-display spots, so DCC should be able to exert pressure on the operator.

    https://help.gocar.ie/hc/en-us/articles/4412590163345-Does-My-GoCar-Have-Free-Parking

    I think the council probably has more leverage than the Gardai are likely to apply! Might be worth sending the above to some of the better (and Greener) local councillors like Feljin Jose (that's his area?), Donna Cooney, Michael Pidgeon etc.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,334 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    So I nearly became a statistic this morning. Cycling down the Malahide Road on my commute, entered the slip-lane that goes behind the bus stop at Fairview, an articulated lorry makes a left turn in front of me, crossing the cycle path, to head towards Clontarf. I break in time, but have to backpedal or would have gone under his rear wheel. He stopped for a break in traffic, so I asked him what he was at - got a shrug and "I didn't see you?"

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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,582 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    Yes, it is an incredibly dangerous spot. I hate even crossing it as a pedestrian!

    I feel they should just close this slip and instead just make one of the two right turn lanes a left turn lane at the end of Malahide Road.



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