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

I think a lot of the frustration people have is that after what felt like reasonable progress for a long while the pace of construction does seem to have dropped considerably in the last six months or so. I know most of the main works have now moved now to the outbound side of the road but it really feels like there has been very little progress on the inbound side over the last while.

Given that inbound is practically 90% complete one wonders what is holding up the small amount of work that woud be needed to finish it out. I remember foolishly wondering back at the start of August as to whether the inbound section might be finished by the start of September. Perhaps there are good reasons why they can't do it but that doesn't seem to have been communicated to anybody.

Actually the whole communication plan on this project has also been a bit of a shambles as far as I can see. I don't know what updates locals are getting but for somebody like me who commutes on public transport three days a week through Fairview as far as Amiens Street I'm not aware of any place I can go to get information on the project that is up to date. Dublin City Council (or whoever is the lead in this project) needs to learn a lot of lessons from this if they are to implement similar long-term schemes on other roadways. Ultimately this scheme is an improvement but if you don't bring people along with you then you're undermining your whole strategy.

Yes, it really is for DCC to step up regarding communication. It's all well and good expecting the contractor to do it but they are hired for their expertise in construction, if they are expected to handle the local communications, projects will get a lot more expensive. DCC have the resources and people on their side are getting feed project information, they need to sit down with the comms people to produce sm posts, newsletters, etc.

Lots of up-to-date info on what works are happening on the DCC website

Cant post the link unfortunately

Half marathon added a lot of traffic early yesterday. Planned reduction to one lane while resurfacing works carried out during the middle of the day. Easily avoidable for the majority of motorists, thankfully.

Fairview has been a disaster the last few weekends with road resurfacing reducing it to a single lane for both directions. It's to be like that for another weekend or two yet.

Often people haven't moved their cars in the morning, when the bus lane comes into operation. It's a joke.

I'm not sure. A lot of those houses are in multiple units. I'm sure some of them go to work early and return after the bus lane isn't operational.

One of the houses put in planning for a drive and was refused. They did it anyway, and it looks good. After leaving the opening for a couple of years, I noticed they are finally putting gates on it. So maybe after a number of retention applications, it might have been granted.

New cycle path working out well.

Continuing work from yesterday.

Section between Newcomen and Five Lamps. I'd thought water main works were complete, but seems not.

Section along Fairview looks like it's not far off. I might be optimistic, but hoping they are trying to get that section done so businesses won't have to deal with it for December/Christmas.

why do you need all those pipes for a cycle lane?? underfloor heating?

I reckon that section in Fairview has a few months left yet judging by the pace of previous sections.

Does he think they are installing all that water piping and services for free? I’m confused.

They may hope to have something like that but there is no way they'll actually be able to do that. There is still a lot of work required along there. Some of the sections along the shops are more advanced than others but I just don't see it myself.

Huge number of workers on the outbound section today. Probably most I've ever seen working on it.