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Luas Line F Consultations - Cycle Tracks?

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  • 26-11-2007 4:19pm
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    sapper
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    Just in the Fitzwilliam Hotel on Stephens Green where the RPA are doing their public consultation re. the choice of preferred route for the proposed Lucan-City centre line (go Lucan Village!:D).

    I also talked the two guys there (they seemed senior enough) about the logic of putting a cycle lane alongside the Luas line when it was being built…They said that it could be a good idea given the focus on reducing emmissions and that a cycle track was originally planned for part of the Stephens Green-Sandyford line. They did say that space was a problem (especially in city streets) but that the more comments they got from the public about a cycle track, the more of an issue it would be for them….

    They are just doing the consultations for the choice of route now - there will be other consultations on the design - but sure what harm would an old e-mail to info@rpa.ie be?


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    10-10-20
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    Seriously, is there a bike path going in with the Sandyford -> Cherrywood section? If so that's super as I can't cycle to work at the moment as you can't use the M50 on a bike and the N11 would add on 10 mins!


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    sapper
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    Don't think so - they would have mentioned it if it was.....


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    SerialComplaint
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    sapper wrote: »
    I also talked the two guys there (they seemed senior enough) about the logic of putting a cycle lane alongside the Luas line when it was being built…They said that it could be a good idea given the focus on reducing emmissions and that a cycle track was originally planned for part of the Stephens Green-Sandyford line. They did say that space was a problem (especially in city streets) but that the more comments they got from the public about a cycle track, the more of an issue it would be for them….
    How would they route the cycle track around the stations?


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    blorg
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    If there is room for a station there is room to route a cycle track around it; I imagine that is the least difficult bit. It would be a lot more work providing for the cycle lane on the full length of the off-road sections or on streets that simply don't have room (it's not as essential on the street bits though.)


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    SerialComplaint
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    blorg wrote: »
    If there is room for a station there is room to route a cycle track around it; I imagine that is the least difficult bit. It would be a lot more work providing for the cycle lane on the full length of the off-road sections or on streets that simply don't have room (it's not as essential on the street bits though.)

    My question wasn't really about the room available. I was wondering how you could keep pedestrians (walking to/from Luas) and cyclists reasonably seperate. If the cycle lane simply runs around the station, it will get jammed up with consumers every 4 minutes in rush hour. Just doesn't seem safe to me.


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    blorg
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    It wouldn't be the end of the world if cyclists had to proceed a bit more slowly at stations during rush hour. All off-road cycle lanes have this problem at the moment in any case. Luas stations would have if anything more of an opportunity for keeping the cycle lane/pedestrian interface brief than for example bus stops.


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