Dun Laoghaire Traffic & Commuting Chat

For option 3 when they say "all parking in front of shops" I think they mean the parking against the footpath but not the parking on the roadside. So they'd make the footpath wider by taking away the parking right outside the shop but retain the parking on the other side of the slip road.

Yes. If you know anything about the operations of DLRCOCO over the last decade you'd know it was the Greens pushing all of these expensive road alterations.

Apparently the greens are the best party in the country. They seem

To be giving the credit for everything

Nobody in this thread has ever claimed they held a majority of seats.

The point being made is that the DLR Green councillors were responsible for pushing for most of these road changes. Which is verifiably true.

Don't be obtuse Ted.

You know full well that the tail wagged the dog in the previous government. All the Covid free-for-alls with dangerous experimental cycle measures, and stupid wasteful schemes like the Pathfinder Programme were all at Eamon Ryan's behest in Transport.

Of course the same eejit never saw one new metre of light or heavy rail constructed at the stroke of his pen, so he can wear that failure as well.

The voters saw all of that failure and drift, and thats why they got walloped at the ballot box.

"The design might be s**t and the waste of money egregious, but thats not the contractor's fault, and Clonmel do good quality civils work, in fairness, and their worksite foremen are helpful and courteous"

Could be worse…….the might have given the contract to BAM !!

so the Green Party did all that work??? They really are the hardest working party out there.

Is it not council engineers and city planners who are charged with turning ideas into viable projects.

you’d be surprised.
as long as they tender competitively and submit a good methodology they’ll be fine.

They are known to legally challenge tenders where they were unsuccessful.

With government tenders. The evaluating criteria has to be above board. And the children’s hospital won’t affect them

In the link it looks like a 23km route! Now that would be impressive!

Most of those have nothing to do with the "Covid free for all" you reference in your post.

While it might be annoying to have works redone, I'd prefer to see that based on actual user experience they are willing to revisit a scheme rather than saying tough s***, that'll have to do.

I'm unclear about how they envision cyclists coming north from Bray, up the Dublin Road (who I would imagine as the bulk of potential users) will access this? By walking over the pedestrian bridge? I think they're implying the roundabout will be signalised at some point?

For now it seems so yes, but the longer term plan (phase 2) is to link to Falls Road & Stonebridge Road. There is also the existing 2-way cycle track linking to Wyatville road on the Loughlinstown side of the Road.

(Blue: phase 1, Red: Phase 2).

Coming back to this again - I just looked at the lates update from a few days ago at https://www.dlrcoco.ie/environment-climate-change/active-travel/dun-laoghaire-central , which includes…

3. Early Warning Items:

Stop/Go traffic management will be in place at Honeypark Junction during the week commencing 13 October.

Major road resurfacing of Honeypark Junction and Kill Avenue will commence in November.

 

4. Other:

Next update: Friday, 17 October 2025.

God help us