The intersection of Bridge Street and Cook Street, Dublin
There have been 139 submissions to the Dublin Inquirer Bicycle Collision Tracker map.
A pattern is emerging.
Willy Simon writes:
We’ve found an intersection in Dublin’s city centre that appears to be particularly dangerous for cyclists…There is a discernible cluster of reported incidents in the city centre, and it’s only a stone’s throw from Dublin City Council’s Civic Offices at Wood Quay. Two accidents have been reported at the intersection of Bridge Street and Cook Street, and three more just south of the intersection on Bridge Street Upper before it meets High Street….[details on how it can be improved at link below]
Danger For Cyclists – Here’s A Place To Avoid (Willy Simon. Dublin Inquirer)
Pic: Caroline Brady/Dublin Inquirer
The junction above is poxy on a bike.
Ban the bike.
Shut up
Oh my tutsie
Unsurprising – that junction, and the bit where it actually crosses the Liffey is a mess no matter whether you’re cycling or driving.
+ Not properly marked as two lanes when coming down the hill.
+ Cars always parked blocking the left turn lane onto the Quays, meaning cars veer out without looking.
+ Lanes on the bridge far too narrow for two small cars, let alone some of the buses and trucks that cross it.
Make Owen Keegan cycle through it 10 times a day, we might finally get rid of him
here’s me wishing you a brain tumor.
So your a dan of the bike nazi?
*fan
“and it’s only a stone’s throw from Dublin City Council’s Civic Offices at Wood Quay”
Like that means anything. So should it be safer the closer you are to the Council offices?
I would guess that the point is that being so close to their office it is harder to claim ignorance of the issue.
That’s the section I pass through every day… these are all common occurences:
– Cars speed up coming DOWN HILL to beat the lights.
– Even though the stop line is about 30ft BACK UP THE HILL cars continually cross it, even when red.
– Cars are always entering and sitting in the yellow box – with no exit in sight.
– My left hand is very good at preventing these dicks as I cut across in front of them causing them to lose it, and on occasion, me to get off my bike, tap the window and point at the following:
1 – The Red Light
2 – The White Line half way up the hill….. behind them
3 – The yellow box exit in front of them is blocked
All penalty point offences, but sure no drivers give a tuppenny damn around there.
King Cnoots all of ’em!
You should be banned from the road. Don’t ever knock on my window.
You’re probably a good driver who would never perform any of the shenanigans described, so your window is safe.
Thanks
A good place for a separated cycle lane, with pavement between cyclists and cars.
And Steevens’ Lane too – a cycle track on one side would facilitate the cyclists coming and going from Heuston – at the moment you can’t legally cycle there at all – it’s Luas tracks with pavement on both sides.
It sucks to cross it as a pedestrian as well. No lights: look once, look twice, run for your life.
D’Olier St should be renamed the grinder, It’s like a slowly chewing shark, and the buses are the 20 tonne teeth,
You’ll hardly go faster on a bike in Dublin than down the hill that is Bridge Street……so it may not be all Owen Keegan’s fault…
Tell that to the drivers that speed up coming down that hill, zipping past a white line and travelling a further 20-30ft before entering the yellow box on a red.
It’s a daily occurrence and so is a good spot for cyclists to let loose some road rage after a long day because there’s an offender of on every single light change !
Karma for the cyclists that constantly break red lights at pedestrian crossings. See it happen every day, and they weave through pedestrians like twits.
The combination of Irish public administrative incompetence and personal boorishness on the road (cycliists obviously included here) can produce something quite special.
Indeed. I’m a 44 year old bike commuter (no Lycra just the work clothes and a normal Joe soap bike) who just wants to get to work and does so very defensively and relatively slowly. The amount of dangerous a-holes both on bikes, in cars and busses is mind blowing. A lot think they have a right to get to were they want to be no matter what is happening around them. Flesh is a lot squishier than metal though so I just try to stay out of everyones way. People be crazy and very dangerous at times. There really needs to be a clamp down on all dangerous behaviour at these junctions no matter how many wheels you have under you.
Nothing dangerous with the junction…it doesnt move!
Its the a-hole cyclists who endanger themselves…cycle by the rules of the road and you wont get hurt…..simple.
Clown!
bottom-hole!