Near Misses Volume 2 (So close you can feel it)

Yep that infrastructure is purely for crossing to where the cyclist is in the pic, any cyclist going straight on should be on the road before the left filter lane occurs so they can be in the middle lane at the junction.

Kamikaze stuff from the cyclist and the sort of behaviour that only encourages the anti cyclist brigade.

One of the closest yet this evening passing the Intel roundabout towards Maynooth here I was in lane 1 coming from Leixlip proceeding straight through when a left-hand drive van comes from behind in the same lane and attempts to take the first exit straight through me. Had I not completely stopped he would have gone through me and he missed my front wheel by mm. I had just fixed a puncture so annoyingly the camera was off, it probably saved me though as my pump broke so the front wheel was only half inflated and I was traveling a lot slower as result. I let such a roar I frightened the passenger in the rear seat visibly jumped out of their seat.

Agree completely I think if you did follow the cycle lane there are 5 possibly 6 lanes of fast traffic to try to cross unaided!

Most of the north Dublin cycle lanes appear to have been designed in a way that lead to a cyclist being spat onto a road or a crossing whether it's the ones in Artane that you've to do a pedestrian cross at the roundabout or the one outside the Tesco between Feltrim and Airside that just kind of...stops on the path.

When I cycled from Santry to Finglas last year to get to the COVID testing centre the cycle lane crossed through the entrance to multiple estates that cars definitely would not adhere or pay attention to. The road is the only way really.

That bike lane is another disaster and another example of why paint doesn't make infrastructure. If there's no queue you get close passed as your in one "lane" and the car in another so passing distances seemingly don't apply, then the pinch crossing the canal bridge and traffic encroaching on you to cars in the queue to the amenities either suddenly pulling into the lane in front of you or suddenly opening doors to let someone out!

I totally agree they don't give a hoot about their driving. The left turn at Luas heading towards Beacon is for me not as bad as the left onto Kilmacud. It's all bad design though. Between Benildas and Beacon where the lane goes over to the othrt side is bonkers. When you cross you have infrastructure in your way of joining the cycle lane and it's not ramped flush. This is new design and still not thinking of the cyclist access to the two way lane to Beacon. Easily avoidable to make it both pedestrian and cyclist friendly.

Stop, I regularly need to cycle through that junction at the beacon/drummartin road with my kid in the trailer. (A trailer i got instead of a 2nd car - sustainable or what!)

And then i need to turn right onto blackthorn Road. For all the cycle lanes painted on the road everywhere, by far the safest way to do it is to just cross at pedestrian lights and roll down the footpath across the old entrance to the hotel. Everything else is putting my kid in harms way.

They've spent so much time and effort putting cycle lanes down, and yet, they're not even close to useful.