Near Misses Volume 2 (So close you can feel it)

Whatever about the bridge (I think the cycle bridge and detour here looks reasonably OK) the unsignalised slip road crossings and yielding to private entrances West of that are really poor

Edit: how do you even get to the cycle bridge from the N4? It looks like you'd need to cycle on a footpath or mount a kerb.

Are we talking about the same side here? The inbound side of the N4 heading into the city centre. It's an absolute death wish on that road. I'm all for using the road if bike lanes are inconvenient, slow you down or are dangerous but this is one of those sections I'll detour onto the bike lane for safety and in a rare instance the bike lane there is actually grand by cycling standards.

The outbound one is messy though with all the junction crossings, poor surface or traffic not yielding. There's a monster pothole in the bike lane at the Texaco junction that will shatter your wrist if you don't see it, it's invisible in the rain!

I have to agree here, the cycle/pedestrian bridge route is definitely preferable to the alternative of going through the main M50 junction which can feel intense even in a car with some of the crazies.

Route you would take is stay on the N4 until junction 2, then come off towards the Hermitage clinic and take the old lucan road past the Deadman's inn and join the pedestrian/cycle route just before King's hospital school. That'll bring you into Palmerstown village where you can continue on behind the Applegreen into Chapelizod village or re-join the N4 at this point where it's less crazy busy.

I generally find going west to east using the cycle lanes to be a decent enough route. Going west to east is a bit more haphazard

The inbound side of the road is a two way cycle lane where appropriate between the West County and Liffey Valley.

Most people continue on to Woodies. Given the yield signs in both directions it could be argued this section is also two way.

Good god. Reading the comments on Twitter would make your head explode. It's clear that there is zero sympathy out there for any cyclists. People even suggesting that the cyclist was in the wrong because the van made a mistake and he should have helped him!

Goes to show that you can't win over the majority of motorists and they will always blame the cyclist.

The thrust of the comments is - ah, the poor van driver made a simple mistake, and Jeremy was the one who put everyone in danger because he cycled behind the van which was obviosuly going to reverse to correct his mistake.

This is despite the fact that the van turned right (where there was no right turn), and then began to drive down the right-hand side of the road (i.e. the wrong side of the road) before reversing blindly.

Twitter really is awful.

Thought so. That's near where I live.

Ah, the other right :-)

As a pedestrian crossing correctly at the local mini roundabout, I regularly can be 3/4 of the way across (inbound lane and halfway across the outbound lane say) and some car comes along "nothing on my right (actual)".

When they see me in the middle of "their" lane I either get driven at and berated, driven at and eventually stared at with the astonished "where did you come from" look, or occasionally, they see me and stop correctly and allow me to finish crossing.

Two cyclists(different times) hit the ground when taking a corner today when I was driving to the in laws. So be careful out there in the weather, roads still lacking grip

They have a cycle light now at the Heuston junction to avoid the 3 lane death manoeuvre. Timings were **** when they first installed it but you're not waiting too long now

Thanks I’ll try that.

it’s a shame as Thomas street is reasonably pleasant to cycle along