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

You got really unlucky so. I drove from Marino to North Wall yesterday, about 10am, and it only took me about ten minutes. Maybe you don't know the area that well, and got stuck in traffic that you didn't need to be in?

like huge improvements to the area are being done and people are moaning about spending a few minutes in a car when they could have gone to different shops that would have been far easier to get to. seriously like, we could never have any infrastructure improvements if some people had their way. saturday afternoons can be the worst time of the week for traffic anyway, and it was bucketing down rain yesterday too.

Yes, nothing but positive vibes

A few of the staff from East Wall Aldi have moved to Aldi Bayside. Bet your mum will recognise them and it’s just as close as Coolock. 😋

The poster you were replying to lives in Marino. Their mother, as spurious posted, lives in or near North Strand. Picking their mother up to bring her shopping involves driving through the works.

Delivery isn't an option because their mother enjoys the social interaction/excuse to talk to her child of shopping.

It took a few posts for the poster to establish this information.

Yes, the water mains replacement works are a bit more than 50% complete. It seems like each side of the route has 4" ring mains apart from Fairview park itself of course, which has some water mains of regional importance if I remember correctly.

Only a relatively small amount of new pipe has been laid on the western side of the work route, on some of Amiens Street and in Fairview itself.

I posted not too long ago (Easter) about getting photos of brown water in glasses and a bathtub and the comms from DCC and Irish Water was sorely lacking, considering they expected repairs to be completed almost a day later and water in that condition is not just undrinkable, it can foul interior plumbing, cisterns and (although unlikely) central heating. The microbiological safety of such turbid water after a break is also questionable. Such disruption is inevitable over the course of a big project, but having a rush on the local supermarkets for usable water should not be normalised or chalked down to "a bit of muddy water", especially given the complete lack of advice or management of the outage by Irish Water.

As an aside, that costcutter on north Strand is not something useful above any other small convenience store, it's not exactly a one stop shop for everything a pensioner wants or needs or can afford.

More on topic, the traffic sequence at East Wall Road / North Strand Road / Poplar Row has been changed since East Wall Road reopened. It has a somewhat longer pedestrian crossing sequence, especially good for Fairview Park to the fire station, but the length of the green light for car traffic on East Wall Road has been significantly shortened. There are routinely traffic queues now outside of peak times, and I recently timed a 53 bus from the railway bridge to the lights. It took almost 10 minutes to clear the junction. Some change is necessary there.

Chaos, both sides of the road now. God help any cyclist trying to navigate the road surface, it’s a complete mess.

But we have to look on the bright side apparently. Whenever I’m stuck in traffic on Griffith Avenue due to the amalgamation of lanes to make way for the cycle lanes. I look at those cycle lanes and really believe that one day I’ll see a cyclist using them.

That's odd. I am on Griffith Avenue every day, either on foot, bike or in car. I see plenty of cyclists using the cycle lanes. And yes, I see cyclists and indeed motorists driving on the pedestrian footpath as well - not just entering and exiting driveways (which is of course understandable) but sometimes driving along for some time before exiting onto the road. Delivery vans also regularly blocking footpath, rather than stopping on the road. It can be chaos alright. I suppose things will probably improve though when the North Strand and Fairview are fully reopened as some of the Griffith Ave traffic is probably diversionary.