Near Misses Volume 2 (So close you can feel it)

Removed the kissing gates at Griffeen down by AGP1.

Dont see the issue with the kissing gates, its easy to get off the bikes and get them through, even my 8 year old can do it.

The reason they can't put bollards there is because they haven't provided the facilities for parking. Same at Griffeen, a small car park where there is two big gaa pitches. Car park wouldn't be enough for any away team arriving.

Then you have parkrun, why the hell do people drive to parkrun when its less than 5k from home.!! Jaysus easy jog or cycle to it

If you look at the original twitter post, "someone's going to explain to me that this truck flying along the path is fine and what do I expect the driver to do"

which to be fair is exactly what you'd expect some punter to come out and say.

No one is 'funnelling' the truck down the lane. The truck driver chooses to go down there.

I understand your point, but I'm just tired of people blaming bad driving on things other than the driver...particularly politicians and the media.

Station Rd. in Portmarnock, heading east: https://goo.gl/maps/CwWGun8m5ybai1ke6

They are funneled however if they cannot go under the railtrack at Manse Rd and are supposed to go through Baldoyle or Portmarnock villages. I cycle it every day and its always like that - that driver is going much faster than then anyone else i've seen however and its bang out of order. You see cars and particularly SUV's doing it too, again, frequently so its not just haulage.

Its insufficient infrastructure at the end of the day and it has to be fixed at some point, fingal is just trying to make it some future developers problem. I know that some of the houses on the right there are selling out to developers but its gonna take forever to do it that way. My opinion is that they should act in the public interest and CPO and widen the road before something bad happens. I'd imagine thats what David Healy means.

Yep but they are set well back. If I lived there i'd want the road widened so maybe not as much opposition as you might think.

Incidentally there is a brilliant opportunity to make an offroad cycle track through a housing estate on the left which would go under the train track and come out at the old chapel opposite chapel road but theres a locked gate in the way. It'd cut out the entire narrow section of that road, including the railway bridge (see earlier near miss) and link up with the planned cycle lanes on Chapel road.

Thats a narrow stretch there - 80k road I assume?

Its a narrow stretch. I go out regularly enough to Collinstown to bring the kids to play their GAA games; and I see some parents cycling out there with children. Its a place that - in an ideal world - you should be able to cycle to with kids. Its not far away. But i'm not sure I'd chance it myself.

Usually a half blind auld boy that the family assure themselves is fine "sure he only goes to the shop for the paper"

I encountered the same thing about 3 or 4 times on the Tour de Beara this year, without the snot rockets thankfully. Made me think it was on purpose to try to dissuade me from drafting on to the back of the group, which I had no interest in doing anyway. But definitely had that intimidatory vibe to it.