Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

People could reverse and there was no difficulty, oncoming cars could drive around the reversing car as there was room. There was room for the reverser to go further across the road, straighten up and then reverse in.

Now you have half the space, you have cara coming both directions at you and could could have thirty seconds to drive across the road, straighten up, hope no one is walking behind you and then get the hell out of danger, all in all very stressful and im not surprised someone damaged their car.

Its no reflection on this persons driving ability, their lives have been made difficult and better a damaged car than being hit by oncoming traffic.

There are going to be so many accidents on this road once traffic volumes resume, such a shame as it was a perfectly safe road to cycle on and the parking that was removed was useful for the Athletics club, older people walking their dogs, families with children using the playground etc. We lost the bottle bank too, and for what, a 900 metre cycle lane running alongside a park, a cycle lane that ends at a busy junction and onto a very busy narrow local road.

Well, no, if you are turning wide into a park and into traffic exiting I don’t think that’s making anything safer.

I know these ideas probably look great on paper but actually bringing a kerb too far forward means cars are crossing the white line as they turn.

Sorry, it’s a bit late now to make sense of your post.

I can see the turn in had been made dangerous because cars have to come around a kerb, i dont need to drive in to see it, the pedantry here is unreal and its just all an attempt to dismiss negativity caused by this cycle lane.

This is a busy junction and in a line of moving traffic you indicate and you turn, you have traffic exiting, you have oncoming traffic, you have residents ipposite the park indicating to pull in and out, you have cars turning into Avondale and exiting out of it, you have cyclists coming both ways including three year olds on scooters whose minders have let them scoot on ahead, utter stupidity.

And then you have pedestrians and schoolchildren on bikes crossing from a path inside the park gate while you have huge jeeps with not enough room to turn in.

You can moan about SUVs and landrovers all you like, people can spend their money on whatever they like and making turns into a park more difficult for them puts other road users in harms way.

There is so much going on and I dont know what normal traffic and winter is going to bring.

Its a wet sunday morning, he does it once, I do it at least four times a week and at all times of the day.

I could equally put a camera on my bike and show cars coming too close and beeping, they would clearly go around me if they could but cant because of oncoming traffic.

Some of the locals have replaced double glazed windows with triple glazing because of heavy traffic, its difficult sometimes to talk with the noise and then Andrew posts a pic of an empty road and you say I am making things up.

Andrew has no clue of what its like to live anywhere on Carysfort Avenue, not an inkling.

And lift the bike over the kerb into two lanes of fast oncoming traffic, hmmm, I dont fancy my chances so no thanks.

There are houses all along that route opposite that cycle lane and you want residents to get out of their cars and onto bikes.

Your solution is to tell them to stop in the middle of a two way cycle lane, climb over a kerb and run across a busy road with a bike.

Im laughing here at your logic.