Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

You are talking of thousands of motorists being displaced so the traffic will use every alternative route available and many will end up going through the village.

The Merrion Road will be a polluting traffic jam all day everyday and it will be much more dangerous for cyclists who want to travel this route to offices and schools, its a much more direct route to the city than going via Strand Road which will be freezing cold and very windy and exposed from october till March.

And good for you to cycling to the airport from Dunlaoghaire, you are in a minority, did you put the luggage on top of the children in the cargo bike.

I hope you arent one of those parents who puts their children in those cargo bikes without helmets.

I built an extension and I gravelled my drive and put in parking because commuters were parking outside my house all day.

I retained some garden and I take care of it.

I installed a lovely patio in the back garden last year and am delighted with it.

I really think you should mind your own business, Mobhi Road is a lovely location and its clear the residents there take very good care of their homes and gardens.

No one knows the traffic problems in an area better than people who have lived on the same roads for decades.

When you make driving difficult you take away the independence of those with young families, those who are disabled and the elderly, you reduce their lives to the very tiny distance they can walk and cycling isnt even an option for many of this cohort.

There are also hundreds of other people with dyspraxia and balance difficulties and they just dont enjoy cycling,thats the reality and the aim of making driving so difficult that people will turn to cycling in droves just isnt happening.

You do take away peoples independence when you make roads one way and confusing for people.

I have stopped driving to Dunlaoghaire because its an ordeal now, Im not an elderly person who used to like sitting in a carpark with the paper but there are plenty of elderly people and those with mobility issues who dont go to Dunlaoghaire now.

Its ok to say its lovely that you can cycle to Dunlaoghaire now along the coastal mobility route and buy a takeaway coffee and ice cream but there are downsides to this and one is increased traffic on smaller local roads, increased traffic on the Monkstown Road and less elderly people visible in the town.

So making driving difficult does take away some peoples independence, of course it does.