Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

Nope, continue the work on the uncontroversial 23kms or so, as contracted, work on a solution with stakeholders for Deansgrange (some sort of shared surface deal with priority crossings, most likely) then complete that in turn.

Its not rocket science. Or at least it wouldn't be if the Council Exec weren't being spiteful.

The one way design on Deansgrange Road isn't happening, the sooner everyone gets over that and focuses on alternative solutions, the better for all concerned.

Your myopia is constant.

Quite apart from business access, which is legitimate, some of those commercial sites are on the slate to provide higher density residential, based on the provisions of the current county development plan, which will be based on a certain level of road access etc

And so there is far more going on for Councillors to consider in the round, than just Ann and Barry on a Fisher Price bike.

Is that ANY possibility that you're being a tad selective about what particular public expenditures you choose to get particularly excited about? Not a peep about spending €80 million to manage the M50 because we can't rely on drivers to drive safely, but yeah, let's get all excited about a few cents (relatively speaking) spent on cycle lanes.

Some people are clearly more equal that the vast majority who responded to the consultation, in your mind. Perhaps we should get back to the old days of the merchant princes being in charge, and letting our betters decide these important things for peasants?

The mask slips.

1) Housing is the only game in town.

2) I'm not involved with any current or future projects within 5km of Deansgrange at the moment.

3) If this was the Motorways Forum, I'd have plenty to say about it, but it isn't.

4) I'm not disgusted by children. My own three piss me off occasionally, but disgust would be a strong word.

We are talking about a massively and permanently impactful measure, for 45 mins in the morning and 45 mins in the early afternoon, for 8 months of the year.

Young kids aren't going be let cycle without their parents anyway, by the time they're old enough, they should be practicised in cycling on all street types and with signal, roundabouts and so on. Whatever is built in Deansgrange eventually should be for all cyclists, all of the time, and side by side, with existing road users and the whole community

And yet, we are, where we are.

https://cabinteelylife.com/2021/09/20/deansgrange-cycle-lane-family-bike-ride/

Bit more here on the Shay Brennan manoeuvre:

The Council Chief Exec is not obliged to follow a Section 140, if in his opinion to do so would jeopardise public safety , so the whole exercise is a hollow bit of grandstanding anyway.

But the remainder of the scheme should be carried on with anyway, without Deansgrange, this shithousery by Burns and Co must not be tolerated.

Doesn't your taxes being spaffed up the wall by this incompetent Council irritate you at all? Cos it should.

Deansgrange will be a two-way solution or not at all. If that sinks the whole scheme, albeit unnecessarily, then so be it, it'll be laid at the Chief Execs door either way.

Never say anything is safe. Its merely safeR.

Neither position is tenable, but its clear the Executive and the Councillors behind the Section 140 are acting together to squeeze the Deansgrange objectors.

The Executive first said they would proceed with the balance of the scheme pending a solution for the Deansgrange section and then sometime later said they couldn't do that on grounds of safety, specifically the integrated nature of the project, and so would suspend all works.

The S140 isnt just compelling them to restart the balance of works but also to complete the Deansgrange section, against the position already conceded by the Executive a fortnight ago, i.e. to reevaluate Deansgrange.

So, you ask me would the Executive ignoring the 140 be legitimate? I say their previous position that led to this particular 140 wasn't legitimate anyway and that two wrongs don't make a right. I also say they've created a hell of a mess with their muddled and amateurish carry-on.

Not in the manner of a two-way cycle route on a traffic lane of the Deansgrange Road section, it isn't.

Why? Cos if DLR try and force it through, they'll get Mannix Flynned. And the precedent is there.

Strand Road went to Court and the petitioners were vindicated for the Council's lack of proper planning.

Its exactly the same here and the Council keeps changing the message and the parameters. Therefore, the shithousery is unilateral.