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

That clown wins on two fronts with his blue tick. He gets to spout his anger-inducing bile to a greater audience and potentially get paid for it by Twitter. Best not to engage at all.

DCC should sue.

if they were levelling Fairview Park to build a cathedral, he'd be delighted (provided it wasn't being blessed by that degenerate hippy, Pope Francis).

That's brilliant news. I personally hate(d) in both directions on the North Strand from the Fire Station to the 5 Lamps. Total death trap.

I still think they missed a trick by not having the route 2 way on the coastal side in as far as Annesley Bridge, with entry/exit points for people to access roads on the far side or for example the turn off to Summerhill / Ballybough

One of the joys of Sutton - Clontarf is if youre going straight you only have to interact with the 2 Bull Island roads and other than than your progress is completely unaffected by traffic lights and junctions on the main road.

2 way paths make huge sense on a large coastal road as you can really minimise interaction with the main road traffic.

I cycled it yesterday. Coming along nicely. Inward section most advanced with the Anneslly Bridge junction and Connolly Stn sections remaining to be finished. Outwards section still a long way to go but loads of activity. Should be great when finished. Nth Strand Road was one of the kippiest roads in Dublin along with Dorset and Thomas St.

In a related note work proceeds ...very slowly... on the Port cycle path from Clontarf thru the East Link Business Park and along the northern edge of the Port to the ferry point. Heard from a fellow cyclist (no idea of true or just gossip) that the Clontarf mafia residents are whinging about their view again ..resulting in delays? Could be Dublin Port tried to deflect from their own tardiness?

I noted this morning that the outbound at Fairview left turn at Edges Corner is no more and the Junction is now taking shape for the future plan.

That is a more pronounced right turn inbound to head along Fairview Strand. After a year and a half of using the space outside Gaffneys as only a car park and mess room, and caging the whole place in for no reason, work seems to be finally happening there.

It will be interesting to see how they manage the job at the junction because they need to keep the flow along Fairview Strand if they are keeping the route into the 5 lamps closed to cars.

Looks like no left turn outbound when everything is finished. I'm sure there'll be a lot of illegal left turns made though.

The idea is to pull to the left and wait for the light at the toucan crossing I’d imagine.

As for motorists breaking pedestrian lights, I see then do it every day at similar junctions. I can’t see things changing without any kind of meaningful enforcement.

I walk and drive into town regularly and know the roads well in terms of no left turns (lots of them) and light sequences. I've never once seen a car break a no left turn and a green pedestrian light.

However, it's happened 3 times at a specific junction, where you can legally turn left but drivers have barrelled through a green pedestrian light without waiting for their signal, one of those times actually brushing off me as I stepped out.

It's just my experience but I don't regularly see drivers illegally turning left when there is clearly a no left turn sign. The turning angle will be quite sharp at Edge's corner so I just don't see it happening.

As for the bike 'right turning lane', positioned on the left, there's no way it'll be used correctly. If no pedestrians are crossing, then cyclists will simply continue cycling straight ahead and not yield to cyclists coming from their left (inbound direction in particular). It's a weird set-up in my opinion.

Cars block the bus lane there too.