New bike lane being built at the arse end of skehard road. What's the point?

Safe infrastructure will encourage people to cycle there. I agree it's disconnected at the moment but ultimately the hope is to have a fully connected network of cycle lanes which will in turn grow numbers cycling as it's safer to do so. Keeping the status quo isn't an option.

Regarding funding, this is drawn down from Gov for active travel and in my opinion any cycle lane is money well spent. Wait til you hear how much they spend on dual carriageways!

They do nothing for those that don't use them.

We had running water and food on the shelves long before we had dual carriageways!

I have a car, I'm not claiming that I don't use dual carriageways. But, I'd still like to see more money invested in active and public transport than on new roads.

My point is that if you don't drive, as many don't, a new dual carriageway, paid out of the public purse, does nothing for you! But, thankfully, we don't get to personally choose what tax money gets spent on, be it cycle lanes or dual carriageways!

Theres a lot of Gaa pitches as well as Ringmahon Rovers down there so presume to allow them to use it and plenty of people do walk and cycle in that area including many going onto railway line…

Why drive such a wide car that doesn't fit in lanes? Sounds very inconvenient.

"Build it and they will come" OP

I am looking at a trike now cuz I have a passenger They can wear shin guards

That’s what councillors are for. If you’re on Skehard Road then you’re in Des Cahill’s ward. Just send him a mail. I’ve found him very helpful with questions like that before.

The end of the Skehard Road junction now is hazardous - a Bus has to take a very wide turn there in order to turn up onto the Skehard Road but it's just not possible without the Bus either going onto the footpath or waiting for any Skehard Road cars to move out or reverse.

There are 2 lines still on the road - this morning a Driver decides to use the middle (old) line to come towards me making me stop on the road until they saw what they were doing.

All of this has been obviously drawn out on a computer somewhere - yet no account was made for the large Double Decker Buses that use this road.

There are long kerbs now along the other roads in the area and no one knows how to use them or what they are for.

Speed bumps have been removed and there are no signs of them being replaced.

I'm sure you'll all say - well this was all shown in such a place and you could have seen it beforehand - that's not the point - as a Motorist, Pedestrian AND a Cyclist in the area there is little thought put into a shared road - one where Pedestrians, Cyclists and Buses/Cars can safely get through the area.

We are waiting for it to be finished - the Pedestrian Crossing in the area is welcome however there are no zig zags or indicators that no parking is allowed which would hide the pedestrians crossing.

Further on from the Pedestrian Crossing the road recedes into tatters again because - we were only told to do this / not that'

Jaysus lads, they are in the middle of construction, its not finished yet. Wait until its finished then cast your judgements.

Which year,though?

Sweet jesus, are ye deliberately trolling the OP?

The point OP is obviously making is that it's not an improvement. Bike lanes that cannot be swept or cleaned, with lampposts smack in the middle of them are utterly unusable, completely pointless and dangerous.

Modern infrastructure my arse. Bike lanes are great when they are done right, if not, it's a waste of money, space and resources.

I'm a cyclist, car user, bus user, pedestrian. There are two places in Cork where I've almost been wiped out on on the bike, and Skehard road is one of them, on my way back from the graveyard down there, by a bus that couldn't fit in the car lane, so it was all over the bike lane.

It's absolutely not moronic to want things done to a reasonable design spec that account for the usage and maintenance needs, with the work getting finished in a reasonable amount of time.