cycling on a pedestrian bridge

buffalo wrote: »

I see hundreds of cars parked up with two wheels on the footpath every day. Do they lift the car onto the footpath?

You must have a tough time going through life deliberately misunderstanding people.

BTW. Is the Sean O'Casey Bridge ONLY for pedestrians or can cyclists use it too? I have often cycled across it SLOWLY and always giving right of way to pedestrians. I have never noticed signs saying cyclists shouldn't use it but some seem to think they can't.

Anyone got a definitive answer?

As I was coming in to work today I saw a cyclist bunnyhopping over a bus full of grannies. He landed on an ambulance transporting a heart for transplant into a critically ill child, sending it into a skid. As he rode away he happyslapped a little girl, walking to school with her mother. He also picked his nose and flicked it at a passing motorist.

I see this kind of cr4p every day. Something has to be done about the plague of bunnyhopping, happyslapping, boogerflicking cyclists. Luckily, there were no hot beverages involved. Could've been mayhem.

:mad:

cisk wrote: »

Sure cycling is best of both worlds, cycle on the road when traffic is flowing, get to a junction with a red light, cross with the pedestrian green light. You may never have to stop at all :rolleyes:

Well, you really should slow down to get of the bike to cross on the pedestrian green. That's what I generally do. As do many others. What's the problem with that?

Snickers Man wrote: »

BTW. Is the Sean O'Casey Bridge ONLY for pedestrians or can cyclists use it too? I have often cycled across it SLOWLY and always giving right of way to pedestrians. I have never noticed signs saying cyclists shouldn't use it but some seem to think they can't.

Anyone got a definitive answer?

There used to be signs at both ends of the bridge indicating no cycling. The last time I passed it they were gone - not sure if they'd been removed by the council or by a scally.

Snickers Man wrote: »

BTW. Is the Sean O'Casey Bridge ONLY for pedestrians or can cyclists use it too? I have often cycled across it SLOWLY and always giving right of way to pedestrians. I have never noticed signs saying cyclists shouldn't use it but some seem to think they can't.

Anyone got a definitive answer?

The Sean O'Casey bridge is clearly for pedestrians.

If you are going to go slowly, would it kill you to get off the bike and just walk across? Quite apart from the law you would not be showing contempt for your fellow citizens.

Snickers Man wrote: »

BTW. Is the Sean O'Casey Bridge ONLY for pedestrians or can cyclists use it too? I have often cycled across it SLOWLY and always giving right of way to pedestrians. I have never noticed signs saying cyclists shouldn't use it but some seem to think they can't.

Anyone got a definitive answer?

Well there is a cycle track on the path on both sides of the bridge separated from the footpath by a strip of paint. Cycle track layout is pretty arbitrary and inconsistent at the best of times. I'd guess the engineers decided to fudge it and lead the cycle track to the bridge and then let people work it out for themselves.

I can't see anything wrong with slowly wheeling across the bridge, but I'd say that, technically, you're supposed to dismount, though in some cycle track designs they have "Cyclists Dismount" signs all over the place, and they are absent here.

Obviously, cycling like a scuttering gobsheen as described in the OP is strongly discouraged.

East link bridge has a sign on it saying no cyclists.

Some people still have problems reading.

There is an overall problem in Dublin, it is a very dangerous place to be cycling around in. The council can have as many of those bikes as they like for rent, but would you feel safe cycling up the quays ? I would in my arse.

Dr_Bill wrote: »

Hardly pointless but you got to love AH. I've got my popcorn

Of course it's pointless. The OP came on to vent, because his venty thread wasn't entertained on the cycling forum.

check_six wrote: »

Well there is a cycle track on the path on both sides of the bridge separated from the footpath by a strip of paint.

I think you've answered this yourself.

I can't see anything wrong with slowly wheeling across the bridge, but I'd say that, technically, you're supposed to dismount, though in some cycle track designs they have "Cyclists Dismount" signs all over the place, and they are absent here.

That would be because it isn't a cycle path and cyclists shouldn't be there at all so why put a sign telling them what to do.

Obviously, cycling like a scuttering gobsheen as described in the OP is strongly discouraged.

Quite. But less furious lawbreaking isn't right either.

Hah, he deserved all he got. It'd be nice to think your cyclist friend is reading the forum and feels like an idiot for it now.

Since you asked for anyone else's stories of cyclists behaving badly, well, here's one of my own, and I was the cyclist in this case. Mortally ashamed of it now, but I'll tell you, I got a hell of a fright when it happened.

Bad weather, it had been lashing down rain and my grip wasn't amazing. I had a bit too much speed, but I was aware of it and was just moving my grip to the brakes to start slowing for the T junction ahead. Some schoolkids were on the path by me, and out of my peripheral vision, I saw one of them dart suddenly towards me, with a yell, trying to startle me. Well, it succeeded. I knew there were primary schools around and what flitted through my head was that a small child had suddenly dashed in front of me. I yanked to the right away from them, rather than braking, because I knew braking wouldn't stop me hitting them if I did, and missed braking altogether, shooting out into the T junction right in front of a car, and scared the driver absolutely ****less, I reckon. She braked (fortunately, it was a steep hill up, so she wasn't moving fast), I shot in front of her and ended up on the other side of the road, shaking a bit from my near miss, whereupon she yelled at me, entirely justifiably! I was still processing what had happened and couldn't manage more than an incoherent gesture towards the kids, who presumably hadn't expected things to get quite that dramatic. Anyway, all was fine, bar everyone involved getting a fright.

In the very unlikely chance, Driver, that you're on boards, I'm really sorry about that!

ebbsy wrote: »

East link bridge has a sign on it saying no cyclists.

Some people still have problems reading.

That sign has no legal basis. It's a suggestion, not a requirement.