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

Drove along it a bit more, so here's some quick impressions/updates on the route.

Five Lamps is basically done, very small area outside the spar there that's tarmac will need to be done, but the junction on that side is complete. The far side over by the funeral directors has not really started yet, so I assume that's next there.

The shops at Fairview (the spar, two pups, etc), the pavement works are complete, as are the car parking spaces. They are now working on the road itself there, currently laying down a wide sheet of some material. Once that's resurfaced that area will essentially be done.

Edges corner over to Gaffneys, a lot of work still to be done, but work only started on all this recently enough.

Javaholics and the shops there, past Josephs, work essentially done, looks like they' just waiting to resurface the road in places. No work being done here at the moment, so as mentioned previously (I can't find it now) no works until the exams are over.

Lots of work required from the motor school, up past Marino College, all the way to the Malahide road junction. Crucially, this seems to be just surface work required, so won't take too long once it starts back up there.

Malahide Road to Howth Road, basically done.

I have been asking into a few shops around there, and it seems like most places don't like the work but are doing ok. The butchers are ok with it, albeit pissed off with the lack of comms(I think, it was a while since I was in with them), Grafton Barbers think they're exactly the same, and two pups (I did not ask them this, so only my opinion) seem incredibly busy, considering that people are sitting out next to a building site and main road. I just don't think that these works have changed the equation for most people down here. It was a hostile environment before the works, no one was crossing the road without a set of traffic lights, and if the parking was full, they'd park on one of the side streets. It's exactly the same as before in almost all ways.

There is an open pit and exposed pipes on the footpath/cycle path at the corner of Howth Road, in front of the Church there.

I believe that the water pipe works are done here, and what they're doing next/now is just the traffic light works. I may be wrong on that, but I've been past here fairly often, so I do think it's just the traffic light works left here. That'd tie in with the works on the island in the middle too. All sorted on the park side already.

There are currently busy working on the area around Malahide Road/Marino Crescent, around the bus stops and cycle lane there.

This is the weirdest part of the whole project, really. Such a let down for pedestrians over all, there's absolutely nothing there for people crossing from further up the Malahide Road on the bus stop side. There's no pedestrian lights, no raised pavement, nothing to stop cars from heading down this slip road at high speed. There's already damage to the pavement there, where a van went over the concrete while it was still wet. There's literally tire tracks set into the concrete.

Took a look down here while I was voting, it's all just services left. The red pipes are the pipes that they put cables in, and they were threading those pipes under the drainage pipe that's connected to the drain there.

Despite the look of it, there's not much left to do here.