Cycle Lane Drama

at

This morning.

Leeson Street, Dublin 2

Brendan writes:

Normally where the Grand Canal bike path crosses Leeson St. is a choke point, but this was unusual!

An elderly driver on his way to the Eye & Ear hospital became confused and drove 230m along a dedicated bike path. Miraculously no-one was injured.

The woman driving in the photo (above) is a bystander who extricated the car safely from the situation…

In fairness.

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58 thoughts on “Cycle Lane Drama

  1. dav

    saw similar at baggot st bridge, car in cycle lane, driver didn’t give a toss, turned left onto baggot st bridge, drove on ignoring the shouts of people.

    1. mildred st. meadowlark

      Now, there’s a difference between being an ignorant arsetwist, and being confused in old age.

      If it was an age-related thing, well then it simply begs the question should that person be driving anymore?

      1. Joe Small

        My granddad drove the wrong way around a busy roundabout with me in the passenger seat. Scary stuff. Finally gave up at 85.

      2. ineverthoughtidenduphere

        This started when he went against one way system at the top of Adelaide rd (Odeon Junction) up the Luas tracks and on to the Canal cycleway to Leeson Street bridge. In fairness, he wasn’t going fast so the traffic just got out of the way.

      3. B Bop

        My darling 88 year old neighbour sped her car backwards down steps (accelerated not braking) …flipped it completely upside down managed to get out herself just as the cavalry arrived.
        Awful stuff & yes they drive on roads super slow-but retesting really needs to be an issue.

    1. Goosey Lucy

      This person wouldn’t have sat a test in first place, and yet, they’re (older age group) statistically safer drivers.
      Notwithstanding the mistake there, they are also more courteous- which in no small part constitutes a safer driver

      1. B Bop

        In some cases not more civilised -I got the finger from tweed jacketed, Pringle jumper wearing Old Bean in a Jag doing 60 in fast lane of M50 for miles-
        The Relaxed entitled Life of Reilly they have.

        1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

          I’m a big fan of flipping the bird. Sometimes the double bird, but that often makes you swerve dangerously so is probably not the best move.

  2. Kenny U-Vox Plank

    Typical. These old shaggers get it all for free and still they want their own personal roads.

    1. Topsy

      Get rid of that so called cycle path & make better use of it. In fact get rid of all cycle paths & lanes in the capital. hi

    1. mildred st. meadowlark

      Gwaaaaaay ourra dah Agnes! Sure yer d’auldest wrinkliest aul waaaan we have!

  3. TOMMY D

    Thats some driving its near impossible to drive from Charlemont to Leeson Bridge but he did it.

  4. Increasing Displacement

    “Miraculously no-one was injured.” – Were they speeding and driving at cyclists?

    Worth reporting though all the same. Highlights the fact that there’s so many people on the roads today that shouldn’t be allowed near a cars driver seat.

  5. Doood

    Last summer I was driving down the N4 coming from the city. As I passed the second lucan junction, just before the Spa hotel I saw a woman in a car drive up the exit slip road and on to the N4 in the wrong direction. I saw the terror in her face as she realised how stupid she was. I kept an eye in my wing mirror after passing her and she cruised on up the bus lane. Luckily it was early on a weekend morning and there were very few cars on the road.

    1. Increasing Displacement

      Morning in Cork 2 years ago this happened twice…120km/h stretch of dual carriageway.
      Once last year too

      2 of these events I saw personally
      I can only imagine how many they are given the limited driving I do

  6. edalicious

    That junction is an absolute shambles. They seriously need to sort it out. There’s also a chronic problem with cars stopping in the middle of the pedestrian and bike crossing points at all of the bridges.

    1. Andrew

      ‘jackeens’ Are you a Healy-Rae? Do people really use the term ‘jackeen’ ?
      Cringe!

  7. dave

    They really should remove some of that wall to make it wider – dangerous choke point for ages now between bikes and pedestrians. Typical DCC bad planning. And they still haven’t put a ladder recessed on the canal lock wall after someone cycled into it a while back. It could do with a barrier.

    The pedestrian crossing lights are confusing at the bridges as well- the bike crossing lights are tiny, and often conflict with the pedestrian light color.

    1. Murtles

      Well automatic driving ban at 70. Feck them don’t they have their free travel passes, what more do the want?

      1. postmanpat

        Public transport sucks though. I wouldn’t trade my car/bike for a free Dublin bus card now, let alone in my seventies.

  8. Andy

    Lads, This is the straw that breaks the camels back. It just cannot go on.

    We need to just get rid of old people. They’re pointless now and a danger to society.

    1. mildred st. meadowlark

      Round them up and turn them into burgers, just in time for BBQ season.

      1. Manny

        Many moons ago I worked with a man in rural Australia. His name was Lee and he was from Papua New Guinea. Lee’s grandad was a cannibal and used to tell Lee that white people tasted rubbish. He said East Asians, particularly the Japanese were the tastiest. Probs all de oily fish they eat.

        1. Zena

          I know someone that was married to a Maori for a few years. When they moved from London to her Maori family settlement, so to speak, her father told him not to worry because the last Irish man they’d ate was too salty…

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