Walk & Cycle Journey Planner

Shaymoboy

For any of you guys living in Dublin. This is a handy tool for planning your cycle journey around the city.

http://www.dto.ie/web2006/jp.htm

Regards

Shaymo

Civilian_Target

Yep - although not so good for longer cycles - it's had a tendancy to lead me along suicidal routes in the past so take its advice with a beach of salt

cyclopath2001

Shaymoboy wrote:

For any of you guys living in Dublin. This is a handy tool for planning your cycle journey around the city.

Have you actually used it?

There's nothing in the programming to take account of the needs of cyclists.

In the case of my work commute it offers a route with way too many street changes and tries to route me down streets that I know are choked with cars from kerb to kerb.

If it were to be of any use, it would need to take account of the presence of cycle tracks that have been certfied as complying with the regulations.

Shaymoboy

I guess what it is really needed is a planner with all the cycle paths in Dublin. That said, the only decent cycle path I am aware of is the fairview/clontarf/dollymount one.

cyclopath2001

Shaymoboy wrote:

I guess what it is really needed is a planner with all the cycle paths in Dublin. That said, the only decent cycle path I am aware of is the fairview/clontarf/dollymount one.

Problem is that the councils don't know where the paths are and have no statistics for their physical or legal condition.

Fairview/Clontarf/Dollymount is slowly degrading. It's not properly lit at night and new developments have include placing pedestrian seating in such a way that you'd nearly run over people's toes if you kept to the left of the track and also parking in Clontarf that allows extra long cars to park their rears on the cycle track.

The section from Dollymount causeway to Sutton, has big problems with littre-bins, steps and being over-grown with weeds.

daymobrew

cyclopath2001 wrote:

The section from Dollymount causeway to Sutton, has big problems with litter-bins, steps and being over-grown with weeds.

I took a few photos of this stretch exactly one year ago with the intention of contacting Fingal CoCo about its poor state.

I passed by it yesterday and they've gone mad with yellow paint to make stripes at the approaches to breaks in the wall (where pedestrians can enter/exit). Some of the stripes make it difficult to see the manhole covers. :mad:
If anyone wants to nag FCC about this cycle track, feel free to use my photos.

blorg

That DTO map thing isn't perfect to be sure, but I've often used it to plot out a general idea of how to get to somewhere I'm not familiar with. Kudos to them for having it on the site I say.

Now the substandard bike tracks, that's another issue entirely.

Evil Phil

I cycle down the grand canal to Ranelagh, through Ranelagh and up through Clonskeagh to Sandyford everyday (and back again). It's pretty good with cycle tracks the whole way, they're in relatively good state of repair although the red sand is starting to lift. The planner does recommend this route but I think that's by chance.

The route suggested for my girlfriends place of work has little or no cycle tracks.

cyclopath2001

blorg wrote:

Kudos to them for having it on the site I say.... Now the substandard bike tracks, that's another issue entirely.

The DTO is responsible for setting the standards for cycle tracks. Sure that should be their priority, rather than a web gimmick?