Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

My understanding is that Irish Water removed them to do some work in the area, and the kerbs will be reinstated in the future.

The ones on the DCC twitter post look a bit higher and more substantial than on the Goatstown Road. It'd be strange for any council to be installing them if there was a fear of litigation over them.

fwiw when I was working in Clonskeagh, I don't recall the Goatstown Road being particularly bad for parking, and the bit by the Goat (outbound) where you'd want them didn't have the kerbs anyway. The "shared" paths both ways between the Goat and Lower Kilmacud Road needed the attention more imo.

Yeah, he was just talking about it today too:

Speed most likely a factor in bound in some of those. And I have nearly been side swiped a couple times at that right turn!

Deansgrange cycle route.

I heard on the grapevine today that the route through the cemetery (option 6) will be proposed to the council by DLRCC at next Mondays meeting. Then there will be a new plan drawn up in the New Year. Consultation after that and then hopefully some activity on the ground to get something in place. It could possibly work for kids, families and some others but most commuting cyclists will just stay on the road beside the cemetery (especially heading southbound) as it looks like a lot of extra crossing of roads, negotiating pedestrian and funeral traffic, and generally having to go out of your way to get where you want to go. However for access to Hollypark schools it could work well if they link it in with the main road up through the cemetery and figure a safe way to get from the exit of the cemetery in Hollypark to the schools.

A convoluted route is not a win win. It probably increases the dangers to cyclists that chose not to do multiple road crossings to use it.

A cycle route that gets ignored by the majority of cyclists is an utter waste. And will serve as just another excuse for ignorant motorists to decry cyclists who decide not to use the purpose built cyclepath. For decades cycling infrastructure was designed to simply remove cyclists out of the way of motorists. We have been moving towards a more equitable sharing of roadspace in recent years but if the cycle path is routed through the graveyard we are simply repeating mistakes of old. It won't bring infrastructure in the area forward one bit. It will be ignored like all poor cycling infrastructure.

But, as we know, the people of the area aren't going to wear the changes to Deansgrange Road itself, as were originally proposed, so.......

For anyone living in the Nutgrove/Dundrum areas, DLR have a community consultation about the new DLR Connector route across the South County.

https://dlrcoco.citizenspace.com/transportation/dlr-connector-adult-survey/

Some of the people wouldn't wear it. The public consultation was clear in support for the original plan, and we'll see how the impact of disrupting the cemetery goes down.

Indeed, punishment passes from motorists for cyclists who have the cheek not to use the brand new cycle lane their Road Tax has paid for (even if it's going in the wrong direction)

I was somewhere around Sandyford/The Beacon type area the other day and there were bike lanes on the footpath that looked ok but for some reason they were designed as if we drive on the right hand side here - anyone know what that's all about?

Think a lot of the new infrastructure around Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown are like that. I suppose it makes some sense, in that when you reach a junction, you just keep going, rather than crossing the trajectory of people cycling the other way to get onto the on-road cycle track. But the on-road cycle track is just a symptom of the way they haven't properly designed or adapted the junction for people on bikes.

@AndrewJRenko

Here you go.

you can clearly see the truck has pushed down the wand thingys. I’ll complain to Supervalue in the morning. What good that will do.