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

I can't find a recent photo or video showing what they've done in Barrow, UK.

But it seems they replaced parking with cycle lanes.

https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/19613981.parking-spaces-two-barrow-roads-near-bae-removed-make-way-cycle-lanes/

They also used an old Photo which shows nothing. Probably because they couldn't find any online to cut and past.

You've spent much of this thread advocating that people who aren't comfortable cycling in a hostile environment would be better off not cycling on the roads at all. By the same logic would a driver who is not comfortable reversing into a driveway, without illegally removing safety equipment designed to protect vulnerable road users, also be better off not driving on the roads at all?

Any standard bollard installation is still going to leave a whole lot more room than you would have reversing into space in a multi-storey car park. It's a pretty basic driving skill.

In fairness you haven't provide a UK example that easily checked either.

Do you apply that logic to all road allocation or only to cycle lanes?

Would you, for example, advocate for on street parking to be removed from one side of this street as that would be necessary to leave "room for drivers to pull over to allow Gardai and emergency services to pass."

What about this street? Ban all traffic from it except emergency vehicles because there is no "room for drivers to pull over to allow Gardai and emergency services to pass?"

Although, on second thoughts, you'd only need ban cars and larger vehicles. Those on motorbikes and bicycles would still have enough space to pull aside and let an ambulance past.

Or maybe, as your focus was on two way cycle lanes, we should just take on an example which has been proven to work over decades of real life experience. The Dutch, and other countries, design cycle lanes so that the emergency services can use them to reach emergencies more quickly than they would be able to by road. Done properly, cycle lanes lead to quicker response times, not slower ones.

Unfortunately, they are needed because neither Irish drivers, cyclists or pedestrians obey simple rules. The reason so many of these threads descend into rows is that bad behaviour on the road is endemic among all users.

Reference is made to Amsterdam but the biggest surprise to me when there were cyclists who actually stopped at traffic lights to allow pedestrians cross, and the one time I tried to cross a road in the wrong place, I got blasted out of it by cyclists and motorists alike.