Little changes we can make to normalise cycling and encourage its uptake

That's a mad post, the roads are for everyone? Motorways and some roads are unsuitable for cyclists and it's illegal for cyclists to use motorways, they're exclusively for motorised vehicles, and rightly so.... Cyclists never hold up emergency vehicles, cars, vans and trucks do, all the time, talk to your local emergency vehicle drivers and they'll school you. And for your information, women, girls, teenagers, elderly people and children cycle too and they don't take up space, they reduce space on the streets for people like me that on occasion needs to drive.

You need to get on with your life and stop expecting people to give you, entitled middle aged men priority on the streets. You need to take a sensible respectful, mutual approach when discussing street sharing.

You're part of the problem Robot22. The streets are not exclusively for middle aged men in expensive cars.

Personally I have witnessed numerous occasions of traffic manoeuvring out of the way of an oncoming emergency vehicles even on bollard festooned streets. It is not the issue some would like to make of it. I would love to see the ugly bollards gone myself. Unfortunately, Irish motorists can't be trusted.

The sheer arrogance of you asking for sensible and inclusive discussion without even realising the privileged position cars already claim on the roads is actually astounding.

The bollards are there because of motorists not respecting mandatory cycle lanes. The solution is actually wider cycle lanes, which emergency vehicles can use to bypass the motorists blocking the road.

OK then what we'll do is say we don't need cycle lanes because some cyclists don't want to used them and are happy to share the space with all road uses. Or if you want to go for spin on on your road bike you use the cycle lanes till you get out of the town onto the open road when you pick up the pace. It's probably 5K of your 50 k spin get over it.

Wellington Lane (mostly) has 20ft verges either side. That's not an issue of not having enough space. Its about poorly designed cycle lanes. They've squeezed them on the road when there was no need to. I would wonder why they exist only on some parts of that route.

Main street Tallaght mostly has no bollards. The ones that exist in village, at a first glance seem to there not to protect the cycle lanes, but to prevent parking in that area.