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

The car was in the cycle lane, so was the poster just taking a picture of a car that wasn't impacting their journey? Am I not allowed to ask that question?

I actually parked my car correctly in the available spaces, then spotted a lady and a man manoeuvring around the car who was parked away from the proper spaces and obstructing the bike Lane.

There are actual parking spaces here and they couldn’t manage that. I drive around Dublin as much as I cycle. So please don’t see me as anti car to suit your narrative.

The last few posts have been a discussion about a photo taken on Griffith Avenue and again I'm asking for everyone to keep the thread on topic as this scheme/project is one of the largest/most important being built for mixed-modal transport in Dublin right now.

One thing I've noticed is that progress really slowed down over July - I can imagine holidays would explain it, but is it common that holidays would be concentrated in July/school holidays in the industry?

Also where the MGWR bridge over North Strand seems to have the space for proper bus stops along with the 4 lane and cycle track design. I feel this should have been done, possibly along with keeping stops near Fairview hall (even if the distance would be rather short between the two). But maybe I'm overlooking something important there.

What is really bizaare is the removal of the bus stops nearer Buckingham Street/Connolly Station in favour of stops *even closer* to the retained stops between five lamps and Newcomen Bridge. The road profile between 5 lamps and the loop line overpass is basically the same throughout and hindering transfer journeys on public transport seems daft.

The recent posts got me thinking, it'd be interesting to see the reaction if a number cyclists coordinated to early one day park bikes in car parking spaces in the city centre (I assume there is no reason why bikes can't use what are accepted as car spaces, once they pay accordingly). No doubt there'd be uproar but when a car is disrupting cycle infrastructure some people seem to question if there is an issue with it at all.

Obviously the actual equivalent would be bikes parked in a road lane but that would probably be too Just Stop Oil and actually be counterproductive to the cause. The point would be to draw attention to the issue in a reasonable way. Off tpoic to the thread so apologies, just thinking out loud.

I genuinely don't think it would work. The message would be completely lost. Drivers are perfectly happy to sit in a queue of traffic, it's just an accepted fact. They might moan a bit and in the past, that moaning might have led to road widening but that's unlikely to happen these days.

I doubt you'd get much uptake from cyclists either, most of them aren't activists hanging out here or on Cycling Twitter and even those that are wouldn't be that keen to spend a morning sitting in terrible traffic.

Got a bus out through North Strand/Fairview yesterday, first time I was out that way in 6 months.

It's obscene what's been done. There's zero justification for having the entire route dug up all the way out at the same time. Except of course it feeds the usual brown envelope culture where somebody gets to take a chunk of public money. Now legitimised with green stripes on the envelope.

Can't imagine how many businesses along the way are going under. There at least one that's been there for 20+ years that gone .

All to push the standard Dublin policy of forcing people away from driving by making it impossible. Without providing actual alternatives.

Bus services are possibly less reliable than they've ever been. Taxis are pretty much a monopoly under Freenow which is a wonderful example of how the gig economy fleeces customers and providers, while providing a mediocre service. And not everyone is in a position to cycle.

I really hope that every single person in favour of this monstrosity suffers the consequences in years to come.

Yes, laying large diameter watermains is usually done 1m at a time, it's only the corrupt Irish who do it in longer lengths. And coupling it with other works which would also disrupt the same route, wouldn't happen anywhere else I tells ya!

And a large portion of the population of Dublin will indeed "suffer" the consequences of this works by having a continuous supply of potable water. Those bastards!

Just run the water main through the park, like all the retired business people wanted. No need to connect that water main to any houses or businesses though.

The bus service is indeed facing challenges arising from recruitment issues right now, but that will resolve itself eventually.

Are you suggesting that investment in infrastructure which will improve bus journey times and reduce conflicts between buses and cyclists should be abandoned because of a short term staffing problem?