Clontarf to City Centre Cycle & Bus Priority Project discussion (renamed)

Haven't looked at it properly to be honest as it's going to take so long to be implemented, thanks to the usual moan and object brigade. You know yourself!

She was good at taking Dart to GCD and cycling up the canal, even as a not very experienced cyclist, because when you build good infrastructure it encourages more users. Unfortunately those who complain about the work in Fairview are too short sighted to consider this.

This issue is overstated. IIRC, the figure is 4,000 spaces, for the entire civil and public service in Dublin - so that includes all the DCC architects and engineers travelling to sites, all the public health nurses, all the HSA inspectors, all the HIQA inspectors, lots of people with mobile roles and genuine needs to travel significant distances at short notice to locations not served by public transport.

Yes, there are SOME CS offices with generous parking. Newer CS buildings have very little parking, (3 spaces between 100 people in my last building).

Did someone Photoshop the cyclists out of these pictures?

Absolutely for all. I've seen job descriptions where parking is advertised as a perk/benefit, so the employers even acknowledge it. No idea if Revenue provide parking and therefore turkeys won't vote for Christmas.

Revenue have some parking in Dublin Castle, but not a huge amount afaik. George’s St office has very limited parking. Not sure about other locations.

I'd say it's going to lead to a congestion charge rather than any actual new measures to move more mixed traffic through the city.

I suppose even if you took 2 car lanes worth wide of Fairview park to leave existing flow as it was you would still have the traffic bottlekneck at Malahide Road and coming in to Clontarf but you would be back to where it was previously. The ancient trees that are so close to the bus and cycle lane are a ticking time bomb, only a matter of time before there's fatalities.

So just the DART then?

Many years ago when I was a trainee on work placement, I was told something similar. “Do you have a car?” was the first thing the new boss asked me. “Yes,” I said, “but I’m only down the road and was thinking I’d cycle in.” “No no, that won’t do at all. A colleague did that before and naturally people assumed he was an alcoholic who had lost his licence.”

These days I own my own business, and I cycle past that place twice a day. I still think of that conversation every time and have a good chuckle!