Limerick improvement projects

Saw the new cycle lane today and like all these bi-directional lanes, as a motorist too, I find it feels extremely disorientating to be cycling on the incorrect side of the road - we are in a left hand drive country but for some reason, it is deemed ok to push cyclists onto the right hand lanes. This is aside from trying to work out how to enter the lane when approaching from the Shannonside of the Ennis Road, how to get into or out of Caherdavin or LIT from the lanes. It'd all stop/start one minute your a cyclist, then your a pedestrian and other times you're a full road user.

Re the cycling clubs using Brookville Ave I would imagine it'll make more sense for them to use the full correct left going towards LIT. They travel at a decent speed anyway and as always, no motorist should overtake unless perfectly safe to do and it's not a solid white line.

The sweeping of cycling lanes in Limerick is woeful. Last week the roadsweeper swept Clonmacken Road, zigzagging in and out of the cycling lane and leaving it in a considerbly worst state than it had been.

That would make a nice looking hotel.

Wickham Street/High Street plans are available to view. For Limerick I think they're pretty ambitious and has great potential so will be interesting to see how it all works out. It's also good that they are not presenting a single idea which inevitably turns into a yes/no referendum.

https://mypoint.limerick.ie/en/consultation/virtual-public-consultation-room-proposed-wickham-street-clare-street-active-travel-scheme

I heard they softened their stance after a few months and may even be in favour of additional motor traffic restrictions having seen the business benefits to the area.

The virtual room seems to have been taken down again so can't remember the 4(?) options exactly but I thought A involved the least amount of change so little more than a stonewashing exercise.

the virtual room appears to be back now

https://tours.innovision.ie/v/NkjxJeVK1lQ

How do they actually decide which one wins in the end ?

And is no change at all also an option ?

Application (Ref. 2360247) submitted to the Council to covert the upper floor of Cruises Street Car Park (Denmark Street/Little Ellen Street) to office space.

Actually a lot of those Georgian buildings were occupied by various professions from the start.

But your right nobody outside of a few long standing Limerick family businesses are gonna want to be in those buildings.

Also the whole reason that O'Connell St. quickly became the place to be for offices was the prestige and there is no prestige having your office in a Georgian building in 2022

The virtual room for the Wickham St to Clare St scheme has been updated with a lot more info which is actually hard to follow, makes little sense now and will confuse everyone. There seems to be 4 overall route proposals (Pink, Blue, Green & Yellow), 3 of which avoid Wickham St. The Yellow route seems to be the preferred option (via Wickham St) and that is split into 2 sections - Purple and Orange. Within the Purple section, there are 5 options (A, B, C, D & E - the ones we saw earlier this week) so good luck to LCCC curating the feedback from all this.

Edit: If you have the time to click around the various options there are some funky animated motor traffic simulations for the 5 purple options which give you an idea of what AADT flow rates would look like in practice.