On Westland Row this morning.
Via Derek O’Neill
On Aungier Street this morning.
Via Ciarán Ferrie
Bull Alley, Dublin 8 yesterday evening.
Via Annja O’Brien
At junction of Dorset St and North Circular Road yesterday evening.
Via Jim
Keith writes:
“In order to highlight the widespread illegal parking in and blocking of cycling lanes, road users have taken to the social networks tagging violations with the hashtag #FreeTheCycleLanes. It is Bike Week after all!”
Illegal Parking in Cycle Lanes – #FreeTheCycleLanes Campaign (Dublin Cycling)
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Ya fair enough for some of those but for others the side of the road seems to be the best place to pull in, to me. It’s a city, ye all share the space. Come to the country and see cyclists go two and three abreast on narrow roads – as a driver, I wait til it’s safe to pass and then do so. No tears and no hashtags.
Eh, you know, I’m inclined to agree with you now despite my usual irritation at these “challenges” in fast moving traffic.
Besides, some of them are legal according to Medium below…
sure weren’t our cycle lanes only built to scrounge a few bob from the eu? we built cycle lanes over car parking spaces, footpaths and bus lanes with only a passing nod to safety, functionality etc.
The roads are all empty in those pictures but it’s a different story at rush hour.
If you’re on a bike you’re at a disadvantage in terms of speed and vulnerability. The idea of designated cycle lanes is an attempt to address that. They keep space clear and save you the added risk of having to pull into the general traffic lane. If they’re disregarded then people get annoyed and take pictures.
As for cycling two abreast on country roads – in many cases that’s safer, it discourages dangerous overtaking.
Erecting a roadblock would have the same effect.
Ya, in fairness I spent a lot of last week driving around Dublin and I wouldn’t fancy being a cyclist there. It just seems like there isn’t the space on a lot of the streets so compromises have to be made. You mention below that these pics aren’t the best examples so I’ll also concede that there are complete a-holes out there too who don’t consider anyone else and that would annoy me too.
Is that a cyclist going the wrong way down a one way street?
You’re a bit thick, aren’t you?
#3? Yeah looks like it.
Which way is the arrow pointing on the bollard? Weird that, eh? Its almost as if it is a contra-flow cycle lane.
It’s a contraflow lane, that’s the whole point. All the more reason it shouldn’t be parked in – if you overtake you will pull into oncoming traffic.
And there ya have it. Reason enough.
100% Mikey,
Also Aungier st one is only a suggested cycle lane. thats what the broken line means, traffic allowd to use it.
Ill respect these cycle lanes when cyclists respect the rules of the road……
Its legal to park there either way as long as they are loading or unloading and not for more than 30 min.
Whataboutcha!
Cars are allowed to drive through it if necessary, they’re not allowed to park there.
All cycle lanes are treated as clear-ways.
I’m a cyclist and I respect all red lights, stop signs and everything else. But sure don’t let me get in the way of you tarring everyone with the same brush.
move along please Ribeard………your in the way……..
Look over your shoulder, move right, avoid obstacle and get on with your life
Don’t forget to signal that you’ll be moving out to the right
Don’t forget to check your bell is working correctly before you begin your journey.
And it is piss easy to get around those vehicles. Being awfully pedantic.
It’s a cyclist thing. Particularly fixie cyclists in their 30’s.
Cyclists pedantic about rules & regulations, never…
Pass them out you pedantic numptys. No wonder we cyclists get a bad name with you geeks stopping to pap people pulling in.
Numbers 1, 2 and 4 are all legal.
Could you explain how 1 & 4 are legal please?
1 is ok between 10am and 12.30pm anyway.
Shops have take deliveries somehow you know
How about a twitter campaign with the hashtag “youcyclelikeadick”.
From http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1998/en/si/0274.html:
I’m actually wrong on number 1. It would have to be a broken line.
re 4:
“the prohibition on the stopping or parking of a vehicle imposed by these Regulations shall not apply to”
“(e) a vehicle being used for the purpose of facilitating the immobilisation of a vehicle or the removal of an immobilisation device from a vehicle pursuant to section 101B of the Principal Act, as inserted by section 9 of the Dublin Transport. Authority (Dissolution) Act, 1987 (No. 34 of 1987);”
Which is part of the problem (well it’s only legal if you’re actively unloading for up to 30 mins). It basically means that most cycle lanes aren’t enforceable.
If wearing lycra, must have had a fierce obvious horn while taking those pictures.
It GoPro footage. They then rub one out looking at their glorious recordings from the daily commute home.
http://www.bulginglycraonsteel&rubber.com
*shakes head*
Isn’t technology marvellous?
Mani, I give you that domain…. Somebody, somewhere in summertime will be into it…
You try cycling s bloody bike to work every day and see how dangerous it is.
there’s always one who resorts to stereotypes, maybe the rider (whatever they are wearing) simply has a genuine reason to be annoyed by having to enter the much riskier car lanes.
Naw. It’s footage for the wank bank.
“Who’s a bold road-user? Who’s a dirty bold road-user” *fap*fap*fap*
Snotted myself
That’s the first time I’ve heard it called that, Mikey.
Ah, it happened again!
Couldn’t agree more.
Plus, repair the cycle lanes – jesus, it’s like the Battle of the Somme on some of them. Try the one on the dualer from Donnybrook to UCD. Or how about the one in the Phoenix park from the Zoo to park gates on the southside? Yeah the same ones the cops park in.
It’s not just cars, vans, and trucks – the number of fat walkers and runners who don’t get the idea of bike lanes and paths in the Phoenix Park makes you think a) we’ll never see the end of Operation Transformation and b) there are some seriously stupid people out there..
Fix the pot holes in the cycle lanes……..are you mad!
I think you mean fix the pot holes on the road first. Motorist pay to drive/ride on the road and we dont get pot holes fixed, never mind the cyclists and their “lanes”……….
You’re an idiot.
Hahaaaa. What a comment…..your such an intellectual.
*you’re
you’re
Yeah, but pollution, innit?
this post reminds me of an incident from the Wicklow 200 a couple weeks ago. We were up around Aughavannagh pulled in at the side of the road and heard a jeep revving like fupp and when it came into the view there was the driver screaming at all the cyclists – “get off the fupping road, i pay tax and NCT and youse pay nothing, get off the fupping road” . he continued this tirade at all cyclists, that we could see all the way down the road. typical gobshite.
flips sakes Broadsheet…. messed up my reply…. my post in response to Corky Dude
Wow, you’re a genuine moron. Was this an issue for generations in your family? Are they all morons or are you the first? Simply wow.
In order to dedumbify you, cycle lanes, have nothing but benefits to everyone, and if you are a motorists you should be BEGGING the RSA to be putting them in everywhere and have cities more bike friendly. Why? Because people being on bikes means less cars on the road, which means less traffic, which means, dumby, that you get to where you want in your pollution causing, cancerous tumour inducing, noise emanating, heart disease provoking, waist band expanding, money burning, death machine, AKA your precious VW Passat, much much faster. People like you make me despair for the human race.
perfect.
Brilliant. Motorists don’t pay a penny more for the roads than cyclists do…
@Corky Spa – as I recall cyclists pay taxes. And guess who wrecks the cycle lanes the most? Dublin Bus. Put up the fares to pay for the cycle lane damage.
Cops are allowed park there.
Agreed the roads are in a desperate state
Won’t someone think of fixshing the rode?
Won’t some one think of naming the new Doolin pier..
It is, yeah. Just like the battle of the Somme.
The poor old German Empire will never live this one down I tell you!
You obviously won’t be taking the higher English LC, what with third class being the best two years of your life. Cretin.
The bike lanes and footpaths switcheroo in the Phoenix Park is a total failure. The designated pedestrian routes are blocked off by a railing for several hundred metres. If you have a pram with you, or you’re in a wheelchair, or for some other reason you can’t hop over the railing, you’ve no option but to stay in the cycle lane.
+ 1
Who would have thought the Battle of the Somme could have been avoided by the laying of a bit of asphalt?
With all that mud ‘n’ all it probably would have helped.
perhaps if the fat little bunter who occupies the Aras presently got out on a bike on the lanes around his gaff we might see some improvement. I guess @labour luvvies aren’t real cyclists. But then, they’re not real socialists either.
+1
Not trying to sound anti-cyclist (I would love if our town and cities were properly kitted out for cyclists) but businesses need supplies and the post needs to be delivered. So what are they to do?
Dublin just isn’t geared for cyclists. This” paint a strip of red onto the road” malarkey is a fob. Until we have dedicated cycle lanes blocked off from the road with a kerbed path (a la Copenhagen etc.) then what do we all expect. Where are delivery trucks supposed to unload?
It is a big problem alright, block the road, block the cycle path or block the footpath… not much of a choice really.
I would disagree about the segregated cycle lanes – this kind of reinforces the mindset among some road users that ‘cyclists shouldn’t be on the road’. Plus, you end up having to slow down/stop for every junction with a minor road.
I dunno, seems to work in Copenhagen and it feels so safe. Spent 12 hours cycling around there one day recently. I wouldn’t do that in Dublin. Also, you even get your own bike traffic lights.
“Dublin just isn’t geared for cyclists.” – so fixie it up then. #badumtish
It is illegal for vehicles to cross (or park in) the solid white line bounding a cycle-lane.
Vehicles can merrily cross, park, or have a picnic inside a dotted white line (unless also posted as a clearway/double yellow etc,). Effectively a dotted white line means nothing, apart from that bikes are nice, and the corpo has access to white paint.
The best description I ever read was in The Slate, which explained that these lanes are actually special Death Lanes that the council hasn’t explained properly, and that the bike-icons represent the location where cyclists have been killed.
Road users – if its not Car drivers acting the eejit its cyclists acting the eejit….
if they are parked for a reason rather than convenience then so what – give the guys a break. As Jones says above go around and move on.
So would you also say its acceptable for a bike rider to leave his bike in the middle of the road blocking the traffic, to go get a coffee, and drivers should manoeuvre around it? (Not that a bike in Dublin would still be there when he/she returned of course)
nope i wouldn’t say that is acceptable and i alluded to that situation in my post “if they are parked for a reason rather than convenience”
I think the point is that it creates a danger for cyclists, forcing them to indicate to the right to move out….the majority of cars in the city don’t allow the recommended 2m space they should keep from a cyclist and sure how can they when tossers like this are using the cycle lanes as parking spots. I see it every morning outside a coffee shop on Mespil road, cars parked in the cycle lane when there are allocated parking spots 5m down the road….laziness. On yer bike!
2 metres to go around a cyclist or stay behind by 2 metres?
Stayin’ alive at 1.5
To go around. I think its a bit less at 1.5 metres but not many motorists give it. A lot barely even give wiggle room to get out of the way of a pothole.
bikers learn the eules of the road
Nice cogent argument there.
Only if you learn the rules of English first.
The Westland Row one always features on the Twitter feed. I’ve been cycling down that way for over 10 years and it has changed a lot, the main problem is a lack space for deliveries to the shops and cafes there. It changed within the last few years to be a designated (and wider) cycle lane but only allowing deliveries before 7 or after 10. Even as a fundamentalist cyclist, it seemed an impractical change.
As if motorists, pedestrians and public transport users never moan!
If you get around by bike as your main mode of transport, this sort of thing gets pretty aggravating. Cars parked in clearways, mandatory cycle lanes, no enforcement etc. and it’s the same on every street in town.
I’ll concede it was a bad selection of images to illustrate the point (1, 2 and 4, anyway) but there are plenty more better ones where they came from. Unlike most transport moaning, bad parking can be a genuine safety issue, and it affects the young, inexperienced and elderly bike users the most.
If overtaking a parked car/van/truck is considered too dangerous for someone on a bike then sir/madam may I suggest you leave your bike at home in future.
It means you have to swerve into a road full of traffic coming right up behind you.
But I’m guessing you knew that anyway. If you didn’t, you’re thick as mince.
I like mints.
Simply slow down, look behind, wait until space frees and then move. As if in a car performing the same manoeuvre.
Exactly!
Or just ignore the cycle lane and cycle on the road. Probably the safest thing to do for everyone concerned.
Or just ride over that inconvenient human obstacle on the footpath…
Rush hour, this morning on Westland Row, some bright spark took it upon themselves to not only park their car in the bike lane, but did it facing the wrong way on the wrong side of the road. Nevermind about a delivery truck stopping to drop off some goods, idiots that park in the bike lane on the wrong side of the road should have their license taken off of them.
cycle the footpath if there is no cycle-lane.. simples. roadsafety2@dttas.ie
there is no corky dude here………….
Real-time twitter feed
http://freethecyclelanes.vool.ie/
A hashtag? That’ll show them….
ah ffs, its a delivery, its not as if their spending the day there