Meanwhile on the Roads...

Like the tractor or hgv driver, have the cop on/courtesy to realise there's a build up behind. I don't mean every 200 metres, but I've often sat held up for kilometers.

I'm talking roads with limited straight stretch availability.

2X4. 4X2. Whatever.

You're not even trying to read what people are writing.

You took a section from a piece of legislation that is literally titled 'Drive on left' and only mentions roadways, where roadways are defined as the entire section of a road 'provided primarily for use of vehicles', and somehow took it to mean 'people should keep left within specific lanes' which is not something that can be inferred from the plain meaning of the legislation.

If they intended lane, they would have used lane as indeed, the word lane is used extensively in other pieces of legislation.

Approximately 100 penalty points are issued per month for this offence, the sole google result of anyone publicly receiving penalty points for it was a boardsie's brother who received it for staying in the right hand lane of an empty motorway with a Garda car behind them.

Going back to the 1997 legislation we have:

'Save where otherwise required by these Regulations, a vehicle shall be driven on the left hand side of the roadway in such a manner so as to allow, without danger or inconvenience to traffic or pedestrians, approaching traffic to pass on the right and overtaking traffic to overtake on the right.'

which is immediately followed by

'A driver shall not overtake, or attempt to overtake, unless the roadway ahead of the driver—

( a ) is free from approaching traffic, pedestrians and any obstruction, and'

Reading these two together makes it clear that overtaking is only envisaged in a situation where the right hand part of the roadway is clear of traffic (indeed, this legislation makes it illegal to overtake while staying in lane if cars are approaching), and drive on left only refers to not driving in the middle of a roadway unless its unsafe not to.

You haven't dealt with any of those points. You got confused between lane and roadway and have never dealt with anything since. The section you referenced is clearly only interested in setting out that drivers should not unreasonably obstruct the progress of other drivers in either direction of travel in a roadway by unnecessarily taking a central position in the roadway when unwarranted. 'Left hand side of' does not in any interpretation mean 'drive as far left as possible' - it means what it literally says, the left hand side of something.

If the legislation had intended 'drive as far left inside a lane as is possible', it would have specified two sections;

Section 1 dealing with roadways that do not have individual lanes

Section 2 dealing with roadways with two subsections; roadways that have one lane in each direction, roadways with more than one lane in a direction

That's how the law works, and if you read any other parts of the legislation you referred to, you'd see that level of granularity and specificity in action.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vM7w2v2TUTPpHeG7A

we have them here to.

I've yet to meet a car on that road 😀

I commute from D16 to D2. The amount of high visibility policing I see at Terenure and Rathgar crossroads, and Rathmines every single day is incredible. Yet they're not doing high visibility policing at obvious spots like parliament or capel street (or around nighttime hotspots). I can see 10 guards hanging out just being visible on a single spin in.

It's great to see them out and about, but it is frustrating.

Maybe its just me but I actually find town much more dangerous to cycle in then the roads.

I go from the Northside to the office up near Rathmines and find I can handle the cars on the malahide rd safely enough. Experienced enough at this point to deal with traffic, aggressive drivers etc.

Town is a completely different story - the amount of ej*ts cycling/on a scooter using head/ear phones, not looking before turning is where the danger is IMO.

Not to mention all the pedestrians around who's faces are buried in their screens. It seems situational awareness has juat gone out the window.

Pedestrians and cyclists should be able to co-exist in the same space and I'd hate to see them separate. The onus is fully on cyclists to be careful in these situations