Cycle infrastructure planned for north Dublin

Signs were put up in Howth, was it people or an individual, nobody knows, so it’s a generalisation to say there is a core of people. I live in Sutton and cycle around the area including the whole of Howth regularly and see no more issues there than anywhere else I cycle

That would be my own experience.

If you refer to the opposition to the Sutton cycle lanes from the discussed vested interests, i'd imagine there would be similar opposition to any such project, I know there was to the cycle lanes in Baldoyle for example, not to mention the reported objection to schemes in Malahide / Sandymount / Dundrum / Dun Laoghaire etc. There's always going to be objections to change, be them genuine or from cranks, its not specific to any one area.

The Jimmy Guerin contribution was excellent, I'll be emailing him today to thank him along with the other councillors who spoke so well.

I'm worried though about the overall scheme and will be cycling it with my 5yo tomorrow to give it a closer look. From a cycle that way on Wednesday night it looks like the 2 main junctions (Sutton cross and Offington park) will remain completely unprotected, as will various stretches along the way such as outside Burrow national school and the dangerous (for cyclists) bend just before the Offington park junction. Hopefully that's just going to be in the short term but for now it means it will remain incomplete.

The section I mentioned above outside Burrow national school where they won't be installing bollards - it was lined with parked cars on Wednesday night, despite all of the other bollards having been installed.

People on fixies. They're the real boy racers...

I suspect that the core of anti-cycling is extremely small, perhaps 1 person.

I cycled out that way on Saturday with my 5yo leading the way and 2yo in the trailer behind me. As expected the unprotected stretches proved uncomfortable at best with parked cars in the cycle lane outside Burrow national school as I'd seen on Wednesday night. The stretch from there to where the bollards start again near the church is particularly long.

On the other hand there is a significant level of comfort to be had from such simple plastic wands where they have been installed.

Hypocrisy will backfire on them?

Don't know too many adherent Presbyterians, do you?

That would not surprise me knowing some of the people involved.

As for this backfiring - I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt initially but based on their sh1thousery they can feck off now.

If the area outside the burrow school is not controlled one has to question the point of segregating the cycle lanes at all. Its the most hazardous stretch of road between Sutton and Howth as its the narrowest section (if you look at it from Corr Castle to the Burrow) and features the worst parking behavior exactly when segregation is needed most - at school times. I wonder if the Burrow School management are being challenged?

assuming there's no pedestrians crossing, I'd be carrying onto that second stop line regardless of the lights.

My main concern with these types of junctions is that cyclists going straight will have a lot less green time than traffic in the car lane. That is what happens here - if you're going straight you're invariably quicker being on the road as otherwise you're left waiting while cars turn left. I'm not sure what the solution is - I think in a Dutch design cyclists would skew left and then cross the side road with priority on a toucan crossing, but that requires a lot of space at the junction.