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

I assume those bollards are for the new cycle lane that is currently being built along Griffith Avenue from the entrance to Charlemont to the Malahide Road.

You might have noticed that they are currently removing the curbing that juts out into the road in front of the schools, they are doing that to make space for the cycle lane. The plans are up on the DCC website if you are interested.

I believe the bollards are temporary and will be replaced by a concrete kerbing, as has been done on the rest of Griffith Avenue down towards the Swords Road and beyond (which BTW isn't complete yet either).

My understanding is that they put the bollards in first to see how the cycle lane is working, if it requires any adjustments, such as blocking entrances to peoples homes, etc. They are easy to move and change. Once they are satisfied with it, the replace it with the better looking permanent solution of concrete kerbing, planters, etc.

I will say, that while I'm happy they are putting a dedicated cycle lane in, I do think it is only an ok effort, I think they could have done a far better job of it, without too much extra effort.

"A proper segregated bike lane along one whole side of the road was needed similar to the one along the grand canal."

Yep, I agree completely. That is why I said it is "only ok".

It is certainly better then what was there before, just a line painted on the ground, which everyone ignored and just parked their car in. However it really wouldn't have been much more difficult to build a proper, wider, two way segregated cycle lane on one side of the road.

"You still have bus stops and other lanes crossing as well as all the driveways which has not changed for them to be aware of the bike lane."

Agreed on the bus stop, the driveways are pretty much unavoidable, even if you had a two way cycle lane, the drive way entrances would still have been necessary unfortunately. Though if you had a two way cycle lane, it might be more obvious and protected.

"The leaves built up to an unsafe level and looks like they can’t easily get in to clear them in place."

I don't know if true, they claim they can clear the leaves with the concrete kerb, but not the bollards. I guess a street cleaner machine can get up over the kerbing.

BTW you should have seen the craziness of what they were initially proposing for in front of the schools, putting the car parking on the inside of the bike lane! At least they changed their mind on that and are now putting the bike lane next to the footpath and the parking on the outside.

Overall I feel like I'd give it a C-, better then the F that was there before, but far from an A it could easily have been. Definitely a missed opportunity.