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

That is not a good road to build a fire station on, AB road is very busy, at least on North Strand they have a Bus Lane on either side of the road to allow fire trucks to get past traffic. There's nothing like that on AB Road (Unless they're building bus lanes)

I passed at 3pm, and there was already cars blocking the path and cycle lane, as wells as six more on the road.

Who knows? Parking wardens and cameras. Easy solutions to get motorists be behave better.

There's a parking enforcement officer in Toronto that I follow on twitter. She works on a bike, and gets so much done. Even when they try and speed away before the ticket goes on the windshield, it gets sent by post. We need something like that here.

It seems that a lot of laws just aren't taken seriously in this country.

They should simply remove that car park, save for a few accessible spaces to the left.

Then make a cool outdoor area for some training, even have seats and make it a pleasant area beside the park. That car park is doing nothing but cause hassle.

ps nearly got mowed over by a cyclist (I was walking) coming outbound while I was walking in towards town after Westwood.

I’m sorry, but I don’t agree. “My house is only 50 m up ahead” becomes:

”I’m turning left just up ahead” (indicator on for the next 3 junctions),

”I’m pulling in to park just up ahead” (blocks the lane waiting for parking to appear/letting passenger out to the shops ‘just for 2 minutes’)

”I’m just going around the car ahead that’s turning right” (mounts the footpath to get past said car).

We need a law that is enforced. Private traffic should not be in a bus lane. And if general traffic is so heavy that drivers feel they need to be in a bus lane to skip queues of traffic, then they’re not going to hold up that traffic for very long, relatively speaking, by turning into their driveways (while looking carefully for cyclists, pedestrians, etc.) They could also consider getting the bus instead of driving, in order to avoid the queue of traffic.

Look into my eyes………

Outside the bike shop at Marino Mart. It moves with you……

I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest it’s probably been done somewhere else, successfully, for years?

If we could even roll these out it would be a massive improvement, I’ll give you that.

Sorry I know we’re gone off topic now. Last I’ll say about this.

Comments awfully familiar

Road tax, Joe.

Westwood joining fee is €500 and €90 a month after that. If I was paying that kind of money I'd be wanting a car park right outside.

It's not a driving problem, it's a Westwood problem. They're charging top dollar for a service that they cannot provide.

They need to provide more parking or reduce they're head count or move the club somewhere else.

Also I left town using the Car on Saturday via North Strand Rd. The plan was to only temporarily stop cars in bound right? doesn't look like there is room for 2 car lanes and 2 bus lanes on large sections of the road. I think it'll be 3 lanes max. I could be wrong now, but it doesn't seem possible to me. (and I drive a small car)

I take you're point RE: people cycling/walking.

Maybe they should reduce subscription for those who don't want a parking spot, they'd then know the true head count for those that wish to drive there. (and be able to plan for it accordingly)

Probably wouldn't work though, as they have that global membership stuff (Wouldn't translate well to other westwood centres)

i use the one in sandymount too, it has hardly any parking and it still manages to function ok.

The only thing that's changed with WW with this development is the addition of the bike lane, they need to figure out a way to better protect that from traffic.

After that, sounds like a lot of the issues at the moment are the roadworks narrowing lanes, nce that's resolved hpefully it'll go back to functioning

John and Mary have paid €100,000 for their Audi Q7.... they're not going to be using public transport, nor are they gonna pay for parking. There are ALOT of very expensive cars in the Westwood car park day to day.

Westwood would lose a lot of customers if they did that. They're already way over priced when compared with Gym's like Flyefit (They're carrying 90's/Celtic tiger bloat).

Realistically it's to big a premises in the wrong place. I think multistory would be an option but again that comes back to paying.

You're just mving the problem 10m down the road then bk, you block up the footpath/buslane at car park 2

I get the feeling a lot of peoples issue with WW is that it's an expensive gym, nearly every comment is centred around money, "Audi Q7s", "high earners", "celtic tiger" etc. It's no different to the SuperValu in Killester, which also blocks footpaths, bus lanes with the entrance. End of the day, everythign has to coexist

100% agree that high earners use public transport but generally speaking it's the work commute. Not for Non-work activities

Both Westwood and DCC/Garda think it's the other problem.

It's messy