Meanwhile on the Roads...

I didn’t. Let’s be fair, I said the language (ie the manner in which it was reported as opposed to the reporting of the fact itself) was sickening, clearly in the context of someone just having been killed. He’s no longer a young man, not even a cyclist, but up in lights he’s an e-bike rider. I’ll look forward to the day when reports of RTAs tell me what I might already assume so that I can say “ah, yeah, another young lad in a modified Civic”.

Definitely leaving it there!

cowboy driving skills on the M50/M11 junction off the scale this evening. Hard shoulders are now a driving lane. And undertaking AT the junction (i.e about a km down the joining lane) to continue on the hard shoulder before (presumably) merging at some point is absolutely fine.

Also kudos to the roads policing this morning who sent (first time I’ve seen one in a few years of this commute) a Garda motorbike out to catch rat runners at Kilmac. Only problem is it’s school holidays so traffic was light and no need to rat run. Presumably the report back will be, no issues with rat running, check back again in a couple of years.

Whadaya mean nothing changes? We're getting more hi-viz, they're clamping down on illegal e-bike and e-scooters and talk of mandatory cycle lanes and helmets reared its head again recently… solutions are clearly afoot.

I was crossing the leeson street upper junction this morning where the right-most lane swings right to join sussex road (that funny intersection before you get to leeson st bridge northbound). It's not the busiest junction compared to the volume of traffic on the road heading towards the bridge/ canal, but because of its layout and parked cars it can be hard to make out whether there's a car about to fly around the corner. I noted my luck as the pedestrian light was still amber when got there. Just as I was reaching the island on the opposite side I sensed a car passing behind me. Took a glance and saw the lights were still amber for pedestrians. As I was noting all this another two cars drove through. All of them clearly had reds. Proper reds, not the "ah it was just turning from amber as I went through officer" reds.

All I can do at this stage is roll my eyes. Getting smashed by a car braking from 20kmph is a lot sorer that getting taken out by a bike at the same speed, breaking or not. I can vouch for that. But yeah, you're dead right, the Whatabout Brigade and Esteemed Members of the Judiciary would no doubt be hopping mad at all the red light jumping cyclists.