Cycle infrastructure planned for north Dublin

It will be lovely to be able to finally cycle safely through a lot of that section. Unfortunately the shambles that is the junction with Malahide Road won't be fixed and will still be a death waiting to happen.

Looks good. I'd still have concerns on vehicles jutting out from the Malahide Road sliproad to turn left towards Clontarf. Have been forced out into traffic many times there.

Hopefully long delays will further deter gratuitous car usage. I notice how traffic levels in fairview have returned to about as busy as it was before it was reduced to one lane. Traffic evaporation before our very eyes and there's been no build up on alternative routes.

I should have been clearer, it one lane for both directions. They have the side closest those new apartments completely blocked off for works.

Has that jeweller in Fairview closed yet? I see he's complaining on the Indo today (I refuse to link to it).

I can't find anything new on him in the Indo today but Mr. Duggan just needs to move on. If you think you can't run your business due to the loss of 4 car parking spaces then you are already finished.

Looking at an article a couple of weeks ago I see he said he "believes the move will turn Marino 'into a car park'" Which is funny, considering he used to park his car for free in Marino, and walk down to work in his shop.

So they're just putting kerbing on a cycle lane that is substandard while maintaining extra wide traffic lanes and turning lanes.

I do wonder what is going on sometimes. We have design standards in DMURS, the national cycling manual, and there's always international best practice examples. But for some reason we just have to accept that some lad in DCC knows better than all these legal standards and design documents. Surely its illegal for a local authority to ignore dmurs?

I kinda wish they would stop trying to building bike infrastructure. It's like watching a dog trying to do algebra.

Thst design is awful. Someone could be killed there with driving like the second motorist who clearly should not be cutting across any cyclist like that. The right filter light needs to be red if the cycle througj is green. Basic stuff.

The same or similar design is now on Dromartin Link Road in Kilmacud. Not sure about the oncoming right sequence, but I am wary of traffic turning left on Kilmacud Road from behind me as I go across on the lane towards Sandyford. Sometimes I go back out onto the road to establish a primary position or just to be seen as traffic.

I had just been using the pedestrian light to cross at the Drummartin extension (cargo bike not manoeuvrable enough to do vehicular cycling there reliably). I thought that arm of the junction was going to result in a collision eventually, if used as designed. But I haven't been that way in a few months, because of roadworks in Clonskeagh and summer holiday.

Apart from that arm of the junction, the work done on the Lower Kilmacud Road has been very good.