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THE LEAST THAT Dublin cyclists should be able to expect is a consistent white line on their cycle lanes, you would think.
But no. Spotted by Steve Conlon on Griffith Avenue on Thursday morning was this curious sight:
Yes. The new fangled curved cycle lane – coming to a road near you.
This artistic interpretation of the bike lane puts heavy importance on the city’s bins – which is all well and good until you see how slim that path is on the left.
It’s hard to disagree.
Written by David Elkin and posted on DailyEdge.ie
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That’s a cycle lane alright…..no cyclists on it
Th headline doesn’t make any sense though
Okay, correction, now I got it, I’m a bit slow tonight
I was standing there waiting for a Bus, and the lads just went around me.
Why not move the bin?
Just as well the line is painted white. In my experience cyclists in Ireland can;t seem to differentiate between red and green for some reason.
And they are morning about it too
@Apogee, unfortunately car drivers seem to be colourblind too, and repeatedly can’t differentiate between a distance of 6 feet and less than 6 inches, when overtaking me on a road where there’s no cycle lane
Apogee, I take it by your attempt at being a smartarse and aggressively pushing yourself into (i.e. trolling) a thread about cycle lanes that you are one of those idiot drivers we see everyday.
When you are not trolling threads about cycle lanes I expect you are driving in them, parking your car on double yellow lines, breaking red lights at junctions, polluting the air we have to breathe and generally making the city and unpleasant place to be in.
I seem to remember gardai had to put cameras on a junction to try and stop cars from repeatedly breaking the red lights and crashing into the tram. It’s not just cyclists.
I avoid the cities by using the bypass, you know, the humour bypass.
@Stopit.
Cyclist can get tickets as of the last few months too, can’t they? They should bring in a compulsory licence for them too. They use the roads after all and so should be fully qualified to use them like the rest of us. If they don’t have a licence they should have to have stabilisers fitted. . They should also need insurance, an NCT for their push bikes, breakdown triangles, mirrors on the side like motorbikes, a ban on headphone use while rising a bike, a mandatory off the road ban for cycling on footpaths, shopping bag holder on the back, a bell fitted and in good order, winter tyres, and a speedometer fitted at they could easily break at 50km speed limit going downhill.
@dermot
yea, unfortunately the drivers that we see breaking red lights at junctions every single cause real harm to pedestrians
Apogee, my post was a joke based on yours. stop calling people c@nts
there are idiotic cyclists on the road and there are idiot drivers thankfully the majority are ok.
It would be easier to move the path.
On yer bike Stopit.
It should spell . worst
All you left out was an engine- oh wait!
Tosspot troll
In my experience as a cyclist and driver in this city for the last 25 years 95% of drivers are oblivious to to cyclist and their rights on the road, I take my life in hands in this city every time I get on my bike 5 times knocked off bike by motorist their excuse “Sorry didn’t see you”
Yes, Apogee, it’s a good job that we never see motorists who can’t differentiate between red and green, isn’t it? Given that motorists are the ones who kill people on the road, while cyclists don’t. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc5VGuJvOVk
How’s that compulsory licence system working out in terms of stopping drivers from breaking red lights, Apogee? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc5VGuJvOVk
I really dislike this ongoing statement that Irish cyclists are somehow inferior or different to cyclists in other countries, what are people trying to say, that they’re mentality deficient or something, I think its really insulting. If cyclists can’t cycle in peace on properly designed roads like they have in Holland and Denmark etc what do people expect, if a car user was faced with a bin cemented into the middle of the road with two feet of clearance you’d expect a reply from the council but with cyclists it’s open season on them. It’s more to do with the mentality of certain sections of society than it is to do with cyclists,
Council paints a white line down the footpath, hey prestoa cycle lane. The people rsponsible for this nonsense should be made cycle around Dublin until they come up with proper infrastructure.
We have miniisters going on about taxing sugar, how about putting facilities in place for people to burn calories instead.
There is a lot worse than that out there
Thats quite funny. lol
Yeah at first I thought it must be photoshopped, apparently it’s not.
Nice post Dermot. Are you related to that cycle lane?
Yeas camroc my second cousin twice removed had several little lanes. Apparently she was a bit of a ride
at least you can se the markings a lot of road markings are needing re doing
Note to ignorant cyclists: a cycle lane on a footpath is a permitted section of the sidewalk for you to use (normally cyclists are not allowed on footpaths). Pedestrians are still entitled to use the entire footpath and you must give way.
Don;t be pedalling that nonsense on here. Are you a spokesman?
Note to gobshìte paddy whacks: that’s the reason I, for one, don’t use them, they are too dangerous
Note to drivers- that’s cycle lane your parking and driving in is not for you. Same as a cyclist on the path except – let’s be honest – bikes don’t kill!
Also ring your little bell please so I know you’re coming and can get ready to push you over
You proved my point about being ignorant anyway
Cycling in a cycle lane is the equivalent of driving in a bog, it just doesn’t work as all the road debris gathers in it.
The council planners in Dublin councils must all be cyclists and on flexitime as none of them are salesmen or building workers with boots full of tools stuck in hours of traffic because some idiot minority cyclist hand behave like dictators. They pay no road tax yet use the road and in some cases motorists have given up 50% of the lanes to facilitate cyclists. Do motorists get a 50% reduction due to longer time spent in single lanes burning fuel? When will the government start taxing cyclists?
I see pedestrians walking across roads, maybe they should pay road tax too, perhaps it could be linked to their shoe size. And prams should have to pay extra, depending on how many wheels they have.
If you were smart enough to think about it properly you might understand every cyclist is one less car you have to que behind, or you could just ask a grown up to explain
guess some lines are difficult to learn,
Millions spent on cycle lanes only for cyclists to use the road…
I love the way the masters that be add these cycle lanes to roads making roads more narrower and therefore more dangerous to everyone?
Davy try cycle in one before making comments
Surely they are safer then driving alongside trucks, artics, buses and cars..?
Millions where did you get that figure from ?
Davy if they make the roads narrower for to have a cycle lane then that would increase the danger and then they stick a, island in the middle of the road making it narrower as they did in Dundalk…
Are you allowed bunny-hop it?
This cycle lane paint job is not brand new, it’s been like that for years.
Coincidence the road is called after Bertie ahern?
My god, they’ll have to put their hands on the handlebars for five seconds.
So there was a hiccup in the road…
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