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

Good update, thanks for sharing. I've used the open section at Fairview quite a bit lately and it's grand but a complete pain in the hole if you want to progress up Fairview strand rather than into town. There's the "nip over the concrete curb and two lanes of traffic" or dismount and cross at edges corner, which can take a while.

Quite possibly but it's a brutal junction to have to cross with a bike.

According to the drawings to access Fairview Strand, bicycles will pull into the left off the main bike lane and then turn right when the lights permit. There will be a single straight across crossing to Edge's from the park, doing away with the current split one which can take ages to cross as the lights don't sync.

Until then, it is fend for yourself!

That's good to know, thanks.

Take photos in landscape mode rather than portrait. That should be ok then, works for me 100% of the time anyway.

Landscape orientated photos are great for all in any case as you can rotate your phone quite easily but rotating your laptop or computer screen to view a portrait orientated image is rather cumbersome.

The current outbound bus stop on the North Strand has finally been closed and moved out the road by 100 yards (quite close to Newcommen bridge).

I'm wondering whether this is a permanent move because the Portland Row stop has been moved permanently much closer to the Five Lamps junction. So if the North Strand stop does revert back to it's original location you'll end up with 2 bus stops within around 200 yards of each other. This would be very odd indeed given that the outbound stop on the other side of Newcommen bridge is being removed permanently (as far as I am aware) making quite a big gap between the North Strand and the Annesley Bridge stops.

Sympathetic? Don't be. Let this be absolutely clear, they did not carry out any consultation on this decision.

There were 2x inbound stops on Amiens street. They decided to remove the stop at Preston Street, despite Irish Rail submitting plans for a new Dart Station entrance BEFORE the bus stop changes were announced.

Instead, they retained the Amiens street stop closer to the Five Lamps / Seville Place. I suspect this is to connect with the future orbital bus route, however if they carried out any consulting, they would have moved the Newcommen / Canal stop closer to the Five Lamps and retained the Preston Street and North Strand (617) stops.

Whoever signed off on the new barrier arrangement on the outbound section just before Edges corner needs to be immediately fired. It's unbelievably dangerous for cyclists and vehicles the way it protrudes into the inside lane and creates a dangerous pinch point.

I find the green on that map extremely hard to view if I'm honest.

So my understanding is that Stop 515 (Portland Row) has moved closer to the Five Lamps and Stop 516 (North Strand) has moved closer to the bridge but the distance between then has actually reduced from 289 to 258 meters. Stop 518 is then being removed so the next stop will then be Stop 519 at Poplar Row some 586 metres further out. That's quite an uneven split in distances.

One wonders why they didn't consider moving Stop 516 over the bridge thus smoothing out the distances between the stops? If it had moved 150 yards further out the distances would then have been 408 and 436 metres which would seem far more practical.

Where the new Stop 516 has been place is also on a hill. The road rises up to Newcomen Bridge as you leave the city to cross the canal and railway and then descends on the far side. The gradient isn't that steep on either side. I don't see much difference in placing it on either side of the bridge.

Had a good look at the cycle lane as it exists from Fairview to Amiens Street from the upper deck of a 27 last Thursday. It seems to be coming along well for the most part and looks fairly decent, although the junction at Annesley Bridge iteself seems a bit odd. There's a bit of work to be done here so it wasn't entirely apparent how the lane will operate.

Is there an official date for when the inbound side finishes? I'd be hopeful that it might be done in time for the schools returning at the end of August when traffic volumes step up again.

Also any know if there are plans to remove the inbound restrictions for normal traffic once that side of the road is complete?

Did you have to cycle around them was it?