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

Car park 2 is very dark at night.

Along the Tolka……

Hence the “along the Tolka” and “assume it would be pricey”.

I don't think it would be necessary to make all of Richmond Road one-way to provide cycle lanes, maybe just the middle part. The cycle lanes would have to be along the road on the south half of Richmond Road but it could turn in towards the river between Richmond Hall and the dilapidated stone building. Use the existing bridge to Distillery Road and then continue north through the GAA lands.

South of Convent Ave is probably wide enough for cycle lanes if the petrol station was bought out and the scrub between road and river removed. Could then be one-way between Convent Ave and GPR. That removes conplaints of having to drive a long way in the other direction to go somewhere close which is against the one-way. I can't see the whole thing being made one-way and it's probably not a battle worth fighting.

South of the Luke Kelly Bridge, you probably have to wait for major works on the flats on Poplar Row, then a linear park could be created along the river.

That's a completely separate issue and really has nothing to do with what I said. The estates you are talking about were built like that because that is the way things were done at the time. It could be changed and there'd likely be Local Authority support but I'm sure there would be a lot of opposition from the residents. That is a local issue and has nothing to do with the merits of changing traffic flows elsewhere. The common theme is resistance to change, even logical change but after that, the situations aren't comparable.

A proposal to make Richmond Road one-way would undoubtedly be met with huge opposition. There is a significant number of businesses and people living on or just off Richmond Road plus healthcare facilities. It would also push all traffic onto the road on one end. The is little benefit to making it one-way compared to the other consequences.

As I said, if the goal is to provide a cycle route along the Tolka then there are better options actually along the river, away from traffic and unlikely to face much opposition.

Somebody should invent a device to brighten up an area in the dark.

We could call it a "light".

Vernon ave is ridiculous, especially as they all drive range rovers around there. It should have been sorted out years ago but they leave these things too long and then the idea of change is unpalpable for many.

i'm from the brookwood area, i'd be very surprised if this bike lane got the go ahead, i think it would reduce brookwood avenue to one lane at the howth road so it would take much longer for cars to get through that junction, people would go nuts. i'd be all for it obviously.

They don't seem to have an issue with making reductions to single lanes though. It's like that outbound on Eastwall road now, due to recent changes. It really slows down motor traffic, waiting behind cars that are turning.

I also spotted something about a new cycle lane and bus gate on Mobhi Road. No motor traffic towoards Griffith Ave., Ballymun, between 16.00 and 20.00. I need to have a closer look at it.

Perhaps we need to change the thread title, or switch to the "cities reducing car access" thread. 😂

"There wasn't even a public consultation!"

Have the residents not been pushing for this for a while now? They are sick of people constantly mounting footpaths and installed flower beds to try to minimise it. Not sure how much opposition would come from direct residents of that street?

Photo taken just now on Brookwood Avenue. If cars can be parked in this manner there is plenty of room for a segregated cycle lane. So many of the grass verges are wrecked after cars parking on them through winter. The verges could be repurposed into cycle lanes.

There would be a pinch point at the railway bridge, where it would need to be designated as a shared surface for cyclists and pedestrians.

However there is ample space on the majority of the road, same as Sybill Hill (see all the cars parked on the grass verges on the weekends) to see this through.