Meanwhile on the Roads...

On my commute last night, very murky, poor visibility with heavy rain, decided to use cycle lanes for safety reasons. Coming through Citywest on the cycle lane which carried across an entrance/ exit of a housing estate. A car pulled out to turn left on to the main road and didn't stop before cycle lane, I had to brake hard and pull out on to the road to avoid collision. I got back onto cycle lane and in fairness to the driver he pulled up beside me and profusely apologised to me. Said he has to be more careful when pulling out and make sure no cyclists are coming. Said he didn't see me because he wasn't looking for cyclist. I had 2 front lights on, a flashing, to be seen light under the Garmin and a full on bright, to see light. And of course a rere bright flashing red light. Later on, I was coming back up the Lucan to Tallaght link road and as I was still on the cycle lane, approaching the slip road up from Naas road N7 a very large truck slowed up and stopped to alow me to cross on to the cycle lane.

Malahide road at Kinsealy is part of my daily commute! Shocking to hear a cyclist killed!

The picture on the Indo website looks to be taken beside the Applegreen. Between there and Baskin Ln was closed.

09:30 on a Sunday morning. I hate the way you don't get details of how these things happened. I feel like we need to know if it was bad cycling practice or bad driving practice (or both).

So sorry to hear it. I'm in my 40s too and try to stick to less busy roads when I can. After the Balgriffin Inn, Malahide Road basically loses its cycling infrastructure. No corner of Dublin should be left without a cycle lane.

Rest in Peace Mr

mod note - speculation removed; please don't suggest a possible cause.

Thats good - I did get one email saying that works would be carried out and I also got this long winded reply which to me says they will do nothing about the narrow roads and its the reposnibility of any developer in the future to make them wider. I understand that CPO's aren't a plan but it does raise the question about sustainable development if they can't address the infrastructure in the first place to support that development.

See below:

Good afternoon,

Further to your query below the A/Senior Executive Engineer, Planning and Strategic Infrastructure (Transportation Division), has reported as follows in relation to the Station Road upgrade:

 “The section of Station Road between the Station Road/R124 junction and the entrance off Station Road to the Earnan’s Wood development requires full carriageway widening and upgrading. This is a length of 180m approximately and needs to include footpaths on both sides of the road to replicate the remainder of Station Road which was upgraded previously by Developers. It will include upgrading of the R124 Drumnigh Road /Station Road junction. It will be of a similar design to what has been previously carried out on the lands bordering Station Road through developments such as the Links, Seabrook Manor, the Kilns and St Marnock’s Bay etc. Planning Permissions were granted to these Developers along the length of Station Road (except for this 180m) and they were conditioned as part of their Planning to upgrade the road & footpaths using a section of their land.  Developers on Station Road could only be conditioned to carry out footpath/road works on their own properties and therefore the road widening with associated footpaths has not yet been installed over this 180m stretch. The Planning Department cannot compel Developers to carry out works on third party private lands. The extension of the footpath and road widening for this 180m requires acquisition of third parties private properties, which the Developer or the Council do not currently hold.

 The Fingal County Council Planning & Strategic Infrastructure Department is now progressing the Station Road Upgrade Project as part of their Capital Programme. This is a full upgrade and widening of Station Road for this 180m length. I understand that the dates of the Project are as follows: their Project Procurement/Appointment of Consultants was carried out in 2023; and the Project design and Part 8 Planning process is planned to be carried out in 2024. Following this, they envisage that construction will commence on site in 2025. The construction start date is dependent on their successful land acquisition from the private householders/developers along the 180m length of roadway.  

 Whilst the Station Road Upgrade Project is being progressed, any Developers bordering the 180m stretch of road who submit Planning Applications to the Planning Department will continue to be conditioned to carry out the upgrading of this road and footpath on their respective properties.”

 Your query in relation to the R124 road condition has be referred to Operations Department.

It would be nice to see the same level of visible Garda response as happened in the aftermath of the Dublin riots but I wouldn't hold my breath. With the riots, it was very easy for society to ringfence the perpetrators - "scumbags", "feral" - in other words "not us". With road safety, the societal view seems to be that the perpetrators are just us on an "off day" - "shur, anyone could make a mistake", "there, but for the grace of god" etc. The continued "othering" of the victims doesn't help.

Forty years ago, there was a spate of joyriding in the country. There were demands from all corners to have Spike Island prison opened up to lock all these lads away. (Birching was another popular suggestion IIRC). At the time, Senator Brendan Ryan made a very valid point - there were few, if any deaths due to the joyriding but in the same time frame, drunk drivers had killed several people. However there was no cry for convicted drunk drivers be to interned or flogged because those drivers were "respectable" members of society - accountants, solicitors, judges, priests etc.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

drunk woman kills a pregnant woman while running over 3 pedestrians. f**king hell.

Hi

Hope the cyclist that this happened to gets to see this. If any of you know the cyclist involved here please let them know that they can contact me as a witness and that I have the driver's registration number.

Yesterday evening in Naas I was driving behind a car that had an altercation with a cyclist. The car came out of a junction and completely cut the cyclist off . The cyclist had words with the driver and then the driver tried to use his car as a weapon and drove at the cyclist twice aggressively.

The cyclist had to mount the footpath to avoid being run over . I hope the cyclist is ok and got home safely.

I have the registration number of the car and I have contacted the Naas Gardai. I have given my statement to the Gardai and they have all my details. They are awaiting contact from either the driver of the car ( highly unlikely ) or the cyclist before they can proceed with this. So please don't let this slide.

Rua

This one is unbelievable!

Car was stopped as the driver was carrying 4 people in the back instead of 3 and they discovered that the car's tyres were basically slicks...

The worst thing however was that the driver had not passed their test/had a driving licence since 1992!!

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-stop-motorist-who-has-been-driving-for-32-years-without-licence/a709967333.html

Shows up the failure of the gardaí to be honest. How can this even happen?

We're decades behind other states in using ANPR camera's. And no demand from anyone in authority, seemingly, to introduce them and other tech based enforcement solutions. We don't even have any red light cameras in the State ffs. Fixed speed and red light camera's are in place in other States 30 years plus at this stage!

'National Slow Down Day is aimed at reminding drivers of the dangers of speeding.' 😃 🙄

AGS getting soundly hammered by pretty much all sides for this bollocks

One of the less serious issues that they got hammered for.

Not sure which thread this came up on previously, but the brain trust were out yesterday.

Garda Press Office talking about National Slowdown Day on Radio1 yesterday said “six collisions every hour every day last year”. 

I assume averaging = 52,560 RTCs in 2023.

It was an 'accident' according to the RTE News last night, which is a strange conclusion to come to when there is zero information available to base this on.