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

Not surprised at all, sure there's no paint on the tarmac saying it's a cycle lane, though even if there were it would probably be ignored..

Those two in the pics would be the first to call "Joe Duffy" complaining about "lawless cyclists!"

Yeah, it’s needs to be a different colour. There are some pretty stupid people out there alright.
But then people make mistakes too. I often stop when I see an older person, and ask if they’re aware it’s a cycle lane, and it could be dangerous. Just be friendly and helpful to them. That will probably be me someday. 😂

My experience as a motorcyclist and dealing with DCC or Fingal engineers is to make sure they know "you're putting them on notice" of the danger / design flaw. I find that potholes get filled in very quickly when I tell them I put my contacts with them on social media, they know that they're liable if they do nothing after a notification.

Anyone who's walked around a Dutch city and stepped into the cycle path would be sure not to make that mistake again..

Isnt it the case that the cycle lane surfaces aren't fully finished yet? The NTA has pretty much stipulated that any new projects involving cycle lanes are required to have red surfacing on the cycle lanes (with some exemptions). Does this project fall under that criteria? Iirc some projects already in the pipeline were able to bypass that requirement.

LoLocal Authorities generally don't like having cycle lanes in a different colour tarmac because it can be quite difficult to do patching or repairs. The coloured tarmac isn't readily available and not worth ordering in small quantities.

those "cycle on the right" lanes drive me mad - we drive and cycle on the left in Ireland, if you start mixing in lanes where it's the opposite no amount of arrows are going to prevent people from getting confused and the result is head on collisions. The north quays cycle lane is the worst, cycle on the left, but at every junction, one lane switches to the right and the other disappears altogether!

But private cars are not allowed queue to turn left in a bus lane.

The correct and legal way to do it is to wait in the general traffic lane.

They could take a left turn about 100m sooner and not clog up the bus lane, but the lazy entitled gym goers and parents of the kids in the creche need to park as close to the front door as they possibly can.

I've used that other car park for Westwood, it takes less than 2 minutes to get inside Westwood after leaving your car. These idiots will instead queue for 10 minutes or more and delay the journey of many bus users.