Limerick improvement projects

mastershake

Outline of the proposed works to take place at the junction. Significant enough changes that I would expect will lead to delays on the Dock road. I assume the main purpose of this is to improve delivery access to the docks? There will be a significant land grab as shown by the blue line outlining Kellehers current premises.

breezy1985

mastershake wrote: »

Outline of the proposed works to take place at the junction. Significant enough changes that I would expect will lead to delays on the Dock road. I assume the main purpose of this is to improve access to the docks?

Absolutely useless cycling lanes as usual from the council. To get through that junction you would have to dismount 3 times just to get through it and any cycle lane in the city that is at the same level as the path gets ignored by pedestrians making it unusable to cyclists
You can expect me and plenty of other cyclists to not use it and stay on the road

Mc Love

Yeah they really know how not to design an intersection even though there is a whole guide on it in the DMURS

un5byh7sqpd2x0

Why would anyone want to cycle down Atlas Avenue?

what_traffic

Kyleigh CoolS Synthesizer wrote: »

Why would anyone want to cycle down Atlas Avenue?

Commuters going to and from work?

breezy1985

Kyleigh CoolS Synthesizer wrote: »

Why would anyone want to cycle down Atlas Avenue?

No harm having lanes anywhere there is room but the council need to actually set a standard for them and not just paint colours on a path or that stupid yoke on the bridge that has no entry point from the condell road side

Mc Love

exactly - there's no joined up thinking. Can you imagine if they did it with roads? Like the cycle lane in Ballinacurra. It starts and stops just randomly - there's no transition from the road to the cycle path or from the cycle path to the road cycle lane at the other side.

breezy1985

Mc Love wrote: »

exactly - there's no joined up thinking. Can you imagine if they did it with roads? Like the cycle lane in Ballinacurra. It starts and stops just randomly - there's no transition from the road to the cycle path or from the cycle path to the road cycle lane at the other side.

Condell Tesco roundabout one throws you round a blind corner right in to a traffic light pole/pedestrians on the Ennis rd exit and all of the roundabout ones in Limerick launch you back on to the road just as the car is exiting the roundabout.

The on path ones are full of lamp posts and yield signs. Imagine as a car driver if you were driving through an estate and had to yield for every driveway cause that's what some cycle paths do

thesimpsons

I see they are laying bollards and armadillos on the bike lane on Clonmacken road the last few days. I rarely cycle in that lane as the surface has started to break up - these improvements aren't going to convince people to cycle in there as there is no room to avoid the surface and once inside the armadillos, you can't get out to easily.

Additionally, if anyone in the council is watching in here - could you please complete the road sweeping of the Condell Road. One side was done early last week and the outbond lane was left untouched. I wonder how they intend to sweep this new sectioned off bike lane ?

breezy1985

thesimpsons wrote: »

I see they are laying bollards and armadillos on the bike lane on Clonmacken road the last few days. I rarely cycle in that lane as the surface has started to break up - these improvements aren't going to convince people to cycle in there as there is no room to avoid the surface and once inside the armadillos, you can't get out to easily.

Additionally, if anyone in the council is watching in here - could you please complete the road sweeping of the Condell Road. One side was done early last week and the outbond lane was left untouched. I wonder how they intend to sweep this new sectioned off bike lane ?

That red paint crap that they put on the cycle lanes ruins them. They are either broken up into shards like Pa Healy road or sloped on making the lane like rumble strips like Dooradoyle

adaminho

I see a load of planter/benches were dropped in Parnell Street today. They're still in the wrap and not planted yet.

thesimpsons

the council finished sweeping both sides of Condell Rd now but there is a horrible greasy mucky residue still on the cycle lane. It really needs another good sweeping now. The parts by the 2 construction sites is oweful.

manna452121

thesimpsons wrote: »

the council finished sweeping both sides of Condell Rd now but there is a horrible greasy mucky residue still on the cycle lane. It really needs another good sweeping now. The parts by the 2 construction sites is oweful.

Keep a lookout for the new poles on the cycle lane heading from the Condell road to Jetland centre

mrsoundie

manna452121 wrote: »

Keep a lookout for the new poles on the cycle lane heading from the Condell road to Jetland centre

Will that stop all the parents letting their kids off for school?

breezy1985

mrsoundie wrote: »

Will that stop all the parents letting their kids off for school?

Is there a school round there?

breezy1985

manna452121 wrote: »

Keep a lookout for the new poles on the cycle lane heading from the Condell road to Jetland centre

Didn't think they were needed there I never see cars parked or driving in it. But I could be wrong I wouldn't pass there that often

MarkR

breezy1985 wrote: »

Didn't think they were needed there I never see cars parked or driving in it. But I could be wrong I wouldn't pass there that often

When there's a match on the place is like a car park.

breezy1985

MarkR wrote: »

When there's a match on the place is like a car park.

Dooradoyle is the same when Garryowen play.

Those bollards are awful to look at but sadly they are the solution not the problem.

Its the people parking there that's the problem

adaminho

breezy1985 wrote: »

Dooradoyle is the same when Garryowen play.

Those bollards are awful to look at but sadly they are the solution not the problem.

Its the people parking there that's the problem

Won't Someone think of the double parkers!

https://twitter.com/EmmettOBrienIND/status/1332329720130711552

Insect Overlord

Incredible. A fella representing Kildimo and Pallaskenry complaining about a cycle lane in Limerick City Centre.

Mc Love

He's some troll

breezy1985

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Incredible. A fella representing Kildimo and Pallaskenry complaining about a cycle lane in Limerick City Centre.

Plenty of his voters won't care where the lane is as long as he is putting it up to the cyclists. It's one of the weirder things to have gotten so political recently

sioda

Love the fact he's tagging Flannerys about not getting deliveries when their kegs get dropped on William Street.

I use that lane a good bit happy to see the bollards tbh

Insect Overlord

sioda wrote: »

Love the fact he's tagging Flannerys about not getting deliveries when their kegs get dropped on William Street.

I use that lane a good bit happy to see the bollards tbh

You'd imagine a qualified barrister would have the brains to phrase his Tweets more appropriately. It doesn't exactly strike confidence in the average Joe to see this kind of carry-on.

thesimpsons

mrsoundie wrote: »

Will that stop all the parents letting their kids off for school?

You probably thinking of the Condell Road. These new bollards are on the Clonmacken Road - no schools anywhere near there.

Risteard

sioda wrote: »

Love the fact he's tagging Flannerys about not getting deliveries when their kegs get dropped on William Street.

I use that lane a good bit happy to see the bollards tbh

Also tagging the wrong Flannerys.

breezy1985

The Dutch and the Belgians seem to cycle and drink more than the rest of the world combined and they manage deliveries some how on them battered old streets so I'm sure Wickham st. Will be fine

OfTheMarsWongs

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Incredible. A fella representing Kildimo and Pallaskenry complaining about a cycle lane in Limerick City Centre.

I've seen city councillors post recently about water outages etc outside of the area in the city that they represent. I suspect its partially to do with getting the name out there in prep for a future General Election run.

Cookiemunster

Work on the Opera Site officially begins today. https://limerick2030.ie/huge-boost-for-limerick-and-mid-west-as-work-at-opera-site-commences/

breezy1985

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Work on the Opera Site officially begins today. https://limerick2030.ie/huge-boost-for-limerick-and-mid-west-as-work-at-opera-site-commences/

Wey hey we finally get started on Limerick2005 or whatever the 5 year plan was called back then