Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

Dont be silly, I choose to live here because of its convenience, I have no problem with traffic, roads are designed and built to carry traffic and this road was safe to cycle on without any segregation.

Its not safe now for the reasons I have outlined and sticking a cycling lane that throws you onto busy narrow roads does nothing to encourage anybody to cycle rather than walk.

Use your thinking cap and think how much better it would have been to improve existing cycling infrastructure in the area.

That cycle lane is going to be covered in wet leaves and conkers shortly, just like it was last winter, I will be squashed up against the kerb on the opposite side of the road.

Its uphill from the village and I am bored with this all now.

You have to cross a busy junction to get into the lane and then as suggested pick up your bike and run across the road to get to your house.

once again there is no room on the opposite side of the road to cycle unless like me you ignore horns blaring and cars practically touching you.

The cycle lane is empty most of the day, it goes nowhere and people choose the many off road alternatives rather than cycle on convent road or other narrow roads or Lower Carysfort Avenue.

And I am not even paid for my opinion on how not to waste public money snd how not to fix what isnt broken.

At least though we still have a two way road, Avoca legal types saw off the challenge to make their road one way, Deansgrange Road people might not succeed in not having their locality destroyed, its just desperate.

Never had any issue cycling on this road for over twenty five years, cycled to the village with traffic and cycled back with traffic.

The drivers are stuck behind cyclists and are naturally frustrated when they see the empty cycling lane, I have sympathy for them and the fault isnt their driving, the fault is whoever installed this going nowhere cycling lane.

Every single time I cycle on the road opposite the cycle lane, never happens anywhere else I cycle so its the fact that I choose not to cross the road to access the cycle lane that is the red rag here.

Its terrible driving and I wouldnt do it but i can understand the frustration of being stuck behind a bike with no way to overtake and then driver sees an empty cycle lane.

Some drivers believe cyclists shouldnt be on roads if there are cycle lanes installed and some will drive aggressively to show their annoyance.Its the cyclist who will come off worst so care should be taken that motorists lives are not made impossible as a result of providing cycling infrastructure.

Easier said than done.

No more two way cycling lanes is the answer unless there is adequate room on the opposite side of the road for people whose destination is that side of the road.

Some of us do not want to be pedestrians, hopping off bikes to cross roads and then running across the same road again with our bikes, its a pain and so off putting.