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

Your definition of "enhance" and theirs might be different! 😁

That's not what I said.

I said that everything is moving fine today, and made an educated guess that some people were avoiding the area following the media coverage of this. The way some people were going on was that Fairview would be a dead end for anyone wanting to go to town.

Well done to the Gardai for proving that traffic enforcement in this country is an absolute joke. Clontarf Garda station is what, a kilometre away? Clowns leaving it to the construction workers to try to police.

"Light traffic on the first day of the new one-way system on North Strand did not deter a significant number of motorists from illegally using the bus lane to access Dublin city on Monday morning.

However, significant numbers of car and commercial vehicle drivers illegally used the bus lane and did not stop for construction workers who asked them to divert."

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2022/08/08/ban-on-inbound-traffic-on-dublins-north-strand-comes-into-force/

Nice bit of advertising from the Irish Times, drive down this road and you won't be caught

Do DPD even require their drivers to have a driving licence before giving them a job?

could you imagine all the "but the cyclists break red lights!!" whingeing that would surface

It isn't a "kip" and if it were a few cosmetic changes wouldn't be transformative.

Pat Kenny had that gem lined up from a mile away this morning. Unfortunately the green Councillor didn't hit back with the article from that red light camera trial in Smithfield that caught more cars than bikes breaking red lights.

Bikes and busses have to share the same space on the road now, which isn't great. And I can only imagine that vehicles driving it, that shouldn't be, will only increase. So they'll be driving in a hurry, and putting people in danger. As can be see by the GoCar van that overtook me. He was driving really close and aggressive for the whole time.

Gardai should have been out today to send a message.

The difference is that cars are mostly running through empty red lights. Cyclists are blasting through pedastrian crossings that are full of people.

I walk through Dublin city every morning and I have to tell off cyclists for blasting through when I have right of way as a pedestrian. I almost got run over by cyclists five times in the last six months (and once by a car).

Motorists know they would be up in court for vehicular manslaughter if they drove as dangerously as many cyclists do.

Your first sentence is complete fabrication. Maybe the city centre is a different beast but in the suburbs, it is no longer safer to drive when you’re light goes green because there will inevitably be at least three vehicles drive through an opposing red light. It used to be just cars but lately it’s everything: buses, HGVs, the lot.

Cyclists absolutely should obey red traffic lights or at least ones where other road users are around but the danger of a car barrelling through a red light is orders of magnitude more because of their weight.

I was today years old when I learned that. I don't like that section (and much of annesley bridge road in general). I only knew the hardware shop as the "Rustin's building"

Whatever the sentence is usually then. My point is the same.

I walk, cycle a bicycle and drive a car.

As a fit cyclist I have the energy to stop at a red light and then accelerate again quickly when it goes green - which can be knackering physically, especially at first. The lazy option is to keep pedalling or rolling along all the time and let pedestrians yield or jump out of the way regardless of green or red.