Cork traffic

Douglas still a disaster. Councillor Peter Horgan had an online saying Irish water cut the cables, so sensors are now not working and no date for them to be repaired…only in Cork would such stuff be tolerated

Pedestrians, pests. Nothing else, one thing is that it is already difficult sometimes to make some reasonable progress in Cork city when driving the car/van/motorbike/bus/lorry, they come along and add extra layer of difficulty. State of this place.

On a serious note, in Mahon one side of the greenway has a reasonably high cycle mode share while a few metres to the other side of the greenway, the cycle mode share drops to almost zero. The contrast was quite stark when you mapped the census small area numbers. They proposed a kind of "whole area regeneration scheme" to try to increase numbers because it would have an impact on the city overall. They're also trying to improve desirability of Mahon as a place to live.

In general though, posting photos of extremely quiet roads while complaining about unused cycle infrastructure makes little sense: protected cycle infrastructure is not generally created because cyclists are already in the majority, rather because so many of them get mowed down that their numbers have fallen extremely low. If cyclists were in the majority they wouldn't need protected segregation.

To extrapolate to other areas: Kerry airport gets government subsidies, rural transport gets subventions, childrens allowance, a graduated tax system etc: there's thousands of areas where the government intervenes to rebalance a system. We invest in the scarce things which it is government policy to encourage.

There's literally nowhere to go there in Mahon on a bicycle. It's a waste of money and space. That's why they are empty those cycle lanes. People really don't cycle in Cork city.

Just go by the Telraam counters instead, it's a lot easier. Here's one in Mahon:

https://telraam.net/en#15/51.8948/-8.4065

Census numbers are a bit more of a vague indicator also but nonetheless both methodologies broadly agree. It's somewhere between 4-6% of traffic / mode share.

I think you may have just ignored my whole post though, might be worth reading (maybe not!)

Build the cycling infrastructure and people are more likely to cycle.