Dublin cycle network plan

Chuchote

The National Transport Authority's cycle network plan for Dublin is well worth studying - beautifully written and a great plan. It's only limited by the money provided by government - if cyclists became a pressure group, this plan would become reality:

https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Written_Report11.pdf

The plan covers both Dublin City and the further reaches - the Metropolitan Area (out to Blanch, Tallaght, etc) and cycle highways and smaller cycles to and in what you might call Rural Dublin (though don't tell the natives) - Kildare, Wicklow, Meath.

The actual physical plan is a huge fat A3 thing in a binder, which you may be able to peruse in your local library (if not, get them to ask the NTA for it). It has good maps… goodish, anyway; in some city centre and suburb maps it's not clear what the streets are, and the south Dublin rural map is so blurry that you can't see the names of places like Bohernabreena, etc. (It's a little clearer here https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Proposed_Network_Rural11.pdf but not much.)

The plan is particularly interesting on the difficulties of rejigging various streets for mass cycling - for instance, Eustace Bridge across the canal at Leeson Street has two massive water mains beside the two parapets of the bridge.