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

Is there a revised completion date for this project?

It was originally supposed to take 21/24 months (Can't really remember)

Seems barely 50% completed.

The DCC website says Q2: https://www.dublincity.ie/residential/transportation/active-travel/projects/clontarf-city-centre-project but that has definitely been changed

There still seems to be a lot of exposed pipes and nothing has been done to them though, over the bridge that goes over the canal for e.g. it looks like they've done nothing, also the whole length of the strip outside where fairview grill is

Yeah, they are still dealing with water pipes. There’s a picture in this thread from last week.

I believe there is public information saying Q2 as completion date. DCC engineer told me that was always the planned completion date. But I didn’t think that was the case.

Plenty of people deliberately spreading misinformation about the project though.

Was just in Westwood. Gardaí trying to stop motorists hogging the footpath and bus lane, I think. They were ticketing people yesterday too. Someone must be putting pressure on them to deal with people in cars doing stupid sh*t.

They have a sense of humour at least.

I would love to see the back of these works by June but there is zero chance that happens. The inbound still isn't finished after a year of faffing about and the outbound is still many months away. That's before we even consider the fact they have to relay a rather long section of road with its final surface. My own take is that it will be more than likely late Q3, early Q4 before it's actually fully complete and that's if they don't slow down even more than they have recently.

Considering the awful state they’ve been allowed leave the road in, I don’t think DCC will be too bothered about delays or fines.

Cycled inbound today around 10.30am, what a huge difference to when I use to commute to the city centre in the "bus lane". It is a fantastic resource, and will surely encourage more to cycle into the city.

Westwood was poor as expected, 2 cars blocking the bus lane that I had to manoeuvre around. The amount of signs on the Westwood walls outbound as you exit Fairview Park warning to beware vehicles is strange. Pity they can't put such effort into actually resolving the issue. Although there is a sign in front of the main Westwood car park informing motorists they can use the overflow car park only 150m away.

Outbound looks like a disaster, avoided it and used Ossory Road and Fairview Park instead, as I was with the missus who isn't confident on the roads. She loved the inbound spin though.

Such a terrible waste of Garda resources. REALLY grinds my gears. All down to bad planning.

Solution is to close Westwood I'd say. People's habits won't change. If they cannot drive there they just won't use it. I'd say most locals would be delighted to see the back of it to be honest. I know there's another car park around the corner, don't get why people wont use that.

The lease for that carpark was up in 2020 apparently

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/dublin-city-council-to-grant-20-year-lease-for-clontarf-car-park-amid-calls-for-housing/42428968.html

It's not pay and display in that carpark is it?

Council said there's nothing else they can do with the spot, so are going to give them another lease to use it.

Yeah, I thought it was a bit lazy on the part of DCC. Plenty of developers work with sites that are more constrained than that.

I got that Westwood survey. It's a joke alright.

Bit of a joke really.

5: Take over some of Fairview Park, to increase car park size. 😂

Regarding point 2, is that not where the new fire station is going to be built?