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

sorry to hear about your accident - people "salmoning" in the wrong direction is one of the reasons i prefer 2-way paths. It's somewhat inevitable on a road like Fairview where it's difficult to cross to the other side to use the correct direction (particularly if your only going a short distance up the road).

If that forces motorists to jam up the right turn after the arches, that will be an even bigger mess. Westwood should’ve been made sort a bigger car park with better access as part of their business going forward to be honest.

yeah, stay left seems obvious, but then you have the council putting in sections of 2-way path where you're supposed to keep right just to confuse people. Also scooterists, in my experience, haven't a clue.

funny that, cycling back from gym at lunchtime, just before your spot there a really fast e-scooter brushed past me by about 6 inches, not good.

westwood is a constant mess and holds up buses. it's really unfair on those travelling by bus to have to put up with this because of people wanting to use a bloody gym. i hope they sort it out sooner or later.

Perhaps Westwood could sort out driving lessons for the parents while their kids are learning to swim. People think that it’s okay to queue in a bus lane to turn left. If we had a proper police force, they could reeducate them.

There are also plenty of nearby housing estates that they could park and have a short walk. And yes, I know walking and crossing roads with little people is a pain but that doesn’t give anyone the right to block a bus lane, cycle path or footpath.

DCC engineer said there will be section of the lane painted before everything f is finished, such as red sections at bus passenger crossing points. So yellow box outside Westwood is a good idea. Unlikely to be obeyed I’d imagine.

The gardai hardly have capacity to manage every yellow box junction in Ireland. If it was a junction with a Luas line or a junction of two major bus routes, then yes they should, but it's an entrance to a gym. I don't think the guards give a damn and you can hardly blame them.

They should create a booking system or gold pass for parking in the main parking area with a much higher level of accessibility parking spaces. If fit and able bodied people can't take public transport or simply walk those other extra 2minutes from the overflow, or God forbid actually walk or cycle to the gym, then there's no hope for us!!

With all the improvements happening around the city, the area that is considered "city" will massively expand. There might be a psychological change there where people won't expect to be able to drive to Westwood. Let's hope.

There have been some traffic measurement boxes around Marino the past 2 months, I wonder are they related to the work in Fairview? Anecdotally, I have seen a lot more traffic go through Marino while I have been home, some are really wild with the speed they go.

i thought no one cycled in the rain?

I agree that the design of that part of the cycle lane is an absolute mess, it's a danger to everyone who uses it, and i'm surprised there's not more accidents there... The best way to have designed it would be to remove that tree and align the section past the footbridge... There's many who use that cycle lane as a two way lane and i don't blame them for it... And the reason why it's not properly designed by removal of the trees? chronic nimbyism! And by the same locals who will tell you the area is a mess..

I thought it had come out that most of the people campaigning for retention of the trees weren't local, with most of them living on the Southside of the city? Or am I misremembering it?

The outbound side was a nightmare for cyclists for years. The section from the optometrists to the footbridge was an absolute death trap; the perfect combination of crappy painted cycle lane, idiots swerving in last minute, more idiots opening their doors into the cycle lane without watching for cyclists, slower cyclists who insist on mounting the path to get in front of the queue only to hold everyone else up cos there's no room to overtake (only to repeat the process at the next set of lights which you were only stopped at because you couldn't overtake the slow fecker earlier) buses and taxis pulling in without checking, saps wandering into traffic on match days, crushed plastic pint glasses everywhere on a Monday morning after matches, lazy pricks legging it across the road instead of using the footbridge, schoolkids jostling at the bus stops.......

If I'm going any further than the Malahide Road turnoff, I used to go through the park (especially if I got caught at the lights at the Fire Brigade station on the Nth Strand/Annesley Bridge). I don't blame anyone for using the lane on the park side of the road, the other side is like a meat grinder nightmare.