Ah here.
Last night
Rémi writes:
A taxi driver has found good use of the new cycling lanes in Clontarf. #ItDidntTakeLong…
Fight!
Update:
Rémi adds:
It occcured at 18:50 yesterday. I was cycling. Stopped to tell the Taxi driver he was parked on a cycling lane. He told me to fupp off, said he had nowhere else to park…
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Another cyclist killed yesterday in Dublin & this is how our dedicated cycle lanes are abused?
State promotion of healthy living & getting exercise has the desired effect, more people cycle, state bodies continually fail to provide adequate facilities to cater for this demand, cyclist deaths on roads increase.
Councils must recognise their responsibility for the failure to provide infrastructure, and state bodies should promote better driver understanding and behaviour.
Garda clampdowns on all manner of driver behaviour would be most welcome, particularly the casual manner with which many drivers ignore cycle lanes where they are provided (as in pic above)
I’d send an unedited version of that pic to the local Garda station
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There’s not a car on the road, why would be bother driving in there?
Seems odd.
I think he’s parked.
But, “because he’s an @r$ehole” is the answer to your question.
Ah roysh
* slaps self on forehead *
Drivers like this should not have their license plates obscured. Name and shame, please.
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Absolutely. I really don’t get this. There’s no expectation of privacy in a public space, especially when one if abusing the rules of the road.
The problem is that we don’t know the circumstances.
Hand it over to the guards who can investigate.
Mob justice can be a little unsophisticated as to the reasons why he was in the cycle lane.
In general, I’d advocate the “we need to know the facts” POV, but here it’s pretty clear that the driver is just a willy.
The guards haven’t been doing much for years in this country. Sometimes, mob justice produces better results. Neighborhood patrols with hurleys have certainly had more positive effect in petty crime in my area than guards telling us to be “civilized” and e-mail the the garda station (no manned phones there) our crime reports. I wouldn’t be surprised if there weren’t more communities like ours, and more switching to mob justice in the future if the guards don’t get their act together.
“Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets…”
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It seems quite the wide expanse for one cyclist. (Loving the title, now I’ve got Gilbert O’Sullivan in my head for a day or two).
it’s two-way.
That’s irrelevant. The council has divvied up the available space in the manner it has chosen, offering safe facilities for pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists. It is not for this or any driver to decide that they are more important than the common good
I’m not convinced that cycle lanes are the answer to cyclists’ safety. A bit of consideration by every road user is perhaps the key. Inscribed on the back of the old Driver’s Licence in the North, was “Care, Courtesy, Consideration”. It seems not everyone is aware of “The 3 Cs”.
Perhaps explain that to the family, friends and loved ones of the 11 cyclists who have been murdered on our roads this year. None of these people were killed in cycle lanes.
I’m a cyclist myself, cycled in London to work where the bus lanes are for cyclists also. I came off my bike a few times, when the buses would push me onto the pavement. I’m not against cycle lanes, great, if the councils around Ireland designate more. Drivers will still abuse that particular side of the road, if it saves them 30 seconds on their way to work, or wherever.
Hardly murdered now…
After they were knocked down, someone entirely separate came along and shot them dead on purpose.
oooohhh, controversial
Brings to mind the old joke
“Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses.
He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed.
The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services.
He gasps, “My friend is dead! What can I do?”
The operator says, “Calm down. I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.”
There is a silence; then a gun shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says, “OK, now what?”
I’m also not entirely sure that the proliferation of cycle lanes is the answer, I’m a cyclist and motorcyclist in London, so i’m all for cyclist safety, but I think the answer lies in Driver awareness, not seperation.
Cycle lanes (especially the Superhighways in London) are great when they have them, but in the situations where they don’t have them i’d worry that car drivers would be less inclined to be aware of cyclist, and that it would reduce the drive for awareness of other non car road users, like motorbike and trike users etc.
I was driving along Shaftsbury Avenue and wagged a cyclist past me, a taxi driver turning into Frith Street had him over his bonnet a few seconds later. The guy was okay. I stopped my car, made a bit of a traffic jam to see if the guy was alright. Honking and beeping of horns ensued – that’s London for you
i would have gotten off my bike and given him a poop load of abuse, see him try to defend his actions. did you say anything or just take a pic?
You can say that again
i would have gotten off my bike and given him a shed load of abuse, see him try to defend his actions. did you say anything or just take a pic?
Me too. Make it as personal as possible too …
You can say that again
Yeah! Spit on the windscreen, rip his wipers off, then rip the wing mirrors off and smash them into the pavement.
Just for starters. Then let the torrent of abuse flow.
Then more stuff.
https://youtu.be/gMYNfQlf1H8
Can you hear the cyclists ring
Ring the bells of pure chagrin
Cos some idiot taxi driver’s
In the cycle lane again
Careful, he looks like a bit of a cycle-path!
Just build the curbs so cars can’t get in.
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Nasty, mean, selfish driving.
That doesn’t work if a southbound cyclist needs to turn right though. It’s a problem with a lot of longer stretches of fully-segregated cycle lanes. You could have a low gap at every junction, but that doesn’t facilitate a cyclist taking a turning position in the road in good time, leading to dangerous, 90 degrees to the flow of traffic crossing and reduced visibility to drivers.
Shamboliic. MyTaxi on bonnet says it all. Selfishness incarnate.
Ha!
If e’er there were a stretch of road that looks reserved, limited, traffic-free, or all three – you can bet your saddle-bags you’ll see a Dublin taxi-driver cruising along…..
Has anybody cycled on this new stretch ?
While there is a few design flaws ( do they consult cyclists when they plan these things ? ) it’s a great amenity.
However as road works continue for the foreseeable on the actual road. Where are they placing all the roadwork signs ??
Smack bang on the brand new cycle lane of course.
Taxi drivers obviously a bit thick
Let’s not blame this on stupidity, this is obnoxiousness.
This was the new cycle lane in the phoenix park over the weekend:
https://www.facebook.com/dublincycling/videos/10158856227325052/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED
I mentioned it here once before: I’ve seen plenty of cars driving in this cycle path the wrong way. It’s an accident waiting to happen, especially if such a car meets cyclists going downhill, behind the blind spot curve.
I saw about a dozen cyclists pull out recklessly in front of my bus this morning. Its the same everyday. Its only through the skill of Dublin Bus drivers that more aren’t killed.
Motorists and cyclists alike need a serious attitude change.
I must say, bus drivers are generally very nice to me as a cyclist. Mostly I’m wary of taxi drivers and women in 4WDs. I say that as a woman: women with kids in the car are a fupping menace: careless and aggressive.
Yes, its pretty scary being a cyclist sharing a lane with a bus. But allowing taxi driver to park in cycle lanes wont exactly convince cyclists to be more careful.
is it ok for cyclists to break ref lights? See it every day and no one seems to have a problem with it. Just wondering why cyclists feel certain road rules are sacrosanct when they completely ignore others.
It’s not OK for cyclists to break red lights. Also, most cyclists are very concerned about cars that break rules when it impacts on their safety. Both of these statements are true. However, your logic seems to be “some cyclists break red lights, therefore it’s OK for cars to do illegal stuff that may result in injury or death to cyclists”.
everyone has a problem with it.
but then, “cyclists”, as you say, are all of one mind and do exactly the same things all the time.
things okay otherwise Dan?
Why is it ok for drivers to break red lights? I see it every day and yet I don’t think I have ever seen a guard stop someone for it. I am just wondering why drivers complain about cyclists doing it when they themselves do it? Why do you do it Dan?
There’s a difference between the way people break lights when they’re on a bike and when they’re in a car. Apart from the d1cks in both cases, of course.
Normally people on bikes go through a red light when it’s safer to do so than not to do so – when there’s a queue of faster, heavier traffic behind that is going to surge forward when the lights change, and the junction is currently clear.
People in cars usually go through a red light when it has just changed – they make a rush up to get through before it’s really red, mar dhea. Or they tailgate on someone who has done this, so that well into the time the light is red, a stream of three or four cars is speeding through against the red, either going straight or, often, turning right.
Nonsense! Breaking a light is breaking a light. It involves illegally crossing a path of right-of-way traffic – motorised or non-motorised. There is never an instance where it is safer to break a light than not!
“There is never an instance where it is safer to break a light than not!”
rubbish. it is safer to break a red light if you are turning left and there is no traffic coming from the right, than to turn right when there is heavy traffic coming in all directions.
Oops. I misread your mail. Help can you delete my previous post!
I see dozens of drivers most days do it too. In fact, you’re suppsoed to stop on amber, which to drivers seems to mean speed up and gun it.
Less of the whataboutery please. Cyclist’s RLJing isn’t the big problem. It’s an issue to be dealt with, but dangerous driving is far more serious, and needs a serious looking at. The standard of driving in IReland is absolutely dire.
Dublin Bus drivers do it too, quite a lot. Sit in the front seat upstairs and watch them break every red light as you approach.
Literally every time cycling comes up as a topic someone complains about cyclists breaking red lights and it turns out it’s actually illegal AND enough people care about to start a whole network of support groups so you don’t have to feel so alone.
Ha ha ha! Some Irish taxi drivers really do think they own the road. That is a ridiculous photo
Seriously? He actually had to go over a kurb to park there. And there’s clearly parking spaces on the opposite side behind him. This should be 2 or 3 penalty points. What would happen if 4 cyclists decided to park in the middle of the road?