How does @ButlersChocs get away with commandeering most of the pavement on this very tight corner of South William Street & Exchequer Street? People were literally falling over each other trying to get past, and those were able-bodied & fully-sighted people. pic.twitter.com/QdjvRjmbiH
— Dublin Cycling (@dublincycling) January 26, 2018
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Ah the cyclists are great!
Ban the of them.
Choc a blocked.
I see what you did there!
To be honest I’d be more worried if you didn’t see what he did there…
lol
The bike chained to the lamp post is also taking up a lot of room , no doubt it will fall soon and block the entire footpath,
Oh the irony… the pedestrian about to walk out in the street it avoid it…
Not to mention the gathering of bikes further on.
The bike locked to the lamppost isn’t helping a great deal either.
I presume they called that inconsiderate action out in some follow-up tweet?
(Yes I know a bike needs to be locked somewhere however you need to take your surroundings into account)
You are right that there is not enough bike parking in this area.
To be fair, the bike could have easily been parked there before Butlers put their street furniture out.
The whole of South William St is a nightmare to walk. You spend half the time hopping up onto steps, clattering into chained bikes and hopping over puddles and broken paving slabs.
it’s high time this street was pedestrianised.
I’m not sure about nightmares etc but it would be nice is south William, drury st, exchequer st, Clarendon st and fade st were all pedestrianised. I’m sure it would cause all sorts of havoc and the nearby multi storey car parks would be unhappy but hey, that’s life
+1
A ‘Nightmare’ ! Really? Get a grip Custo
“….a totes ‘mare roish “
Yes.
Totally agreed that this street is a nightmare in general. Still no excuse for the absolute ignorance of the cyclist in question.
Ah I see the lads over at Dublin Cycling are having another moan.
None more sanctimonious.
I got a bike for Christmas. I was rather scared that I’d immediately become a self-righteous ass overnight, but it must be a gradual process.
And I’ve only had two near-death experiences.
Not as gradual as you might think.
*drops mic*
cause-and-effect?
Possibly you were already a self-righteous ass and got the bike to compensate?
:-)
I just had a vision of myself crying in the front row of the church at your funeral and everyone wondering who I was.
Not to make it ALL about me obviously but if you MUST die, try to do it in the winter, I have a gorgeous black overcoat.
I’ll have you know that I am all LIGHTNESS and Grace Kelly. Cian and that wagon Andy are off the list for the funeral.
Bertie can say the eulogy in that lovely black coat of his.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKOrr4XRbg8
One of my favourite clips.
You’re back in if you say that to at least three family members
Done.
It’s tough owning a bike AND a car, shiftng between self-righteousness and homicidal rage’d give anyone whiplash.
I wonder if the owner of the bike blocking the path is sitting out having a cup of coffee in Butlers?
‘The Edge’ doesn’t look too impressed at being back in Dublin, looks pretty miserable on that nearest seat.
I do like a nice Butler’s coffee with a gianduja chocolate on the side. I generally point at the chocolate as I dunno how tf to pronounce that.
It adds a nice bustle to the street having people outside drinking and chatting. Let ’em off.
butler’s cortado is really nice (but I don’t like their furry cups)
and at €2 (i think), even nicer
Even though a real cortado would be made with that crappy UHT milk, innit. Here comes another fact for your notebook: I lived in Spain for a while. Interesantay, as we who are effluentay in ehSpaneeesh might say.
yo tambien
in fact, i spend around half the year in spain
generally andalooooseeya
Am jealous.
AAaaaaaaargh. Living the dream. That sounds idyllic. Eye-DILL-ik-o.
He who shall not be named studied and then lived in Seville. It’s too hot there, though, and I’ve only ever been in winter.
hmm…. interesting
studied spanish in trinity? erasmus?
Me? Nah. TEFL. I never studied Spanish. I did Erasmus, but to France.
If you mean yer man, twas Erasmus but not from TCD. I think. I dunno. Who talks to people? Not me.
JAHN-dwa. I only know that because I was told by the senior staff assistant in the posh chocs shop I worked in 30 years ago after asking whats “janDUja”.
Thank you. Even though I know when I next go in there I’ll panic and wordlessly point, yet again.
And don’t even start about the Italian sausage, ‘nduja…
you want to try the cortado leche y leche as they drink it in tenerife. a nip of licor 43, coffee and milk and condensed milk.
What does licor 43 taste of? Is it one of those 43 botanicals type fellas?
i recall hearing before that the majority of sandwich board signs in Dublin are illegal (i.e. their owners have no planning permission for them). i presume that’s the case with lots of these sort of furniture arrangements too – like Gogarty’s in Temple Bar have basically taken over a good 30m of path. do they have legal permission to do so?
perhas you could get LCD to opine on this
Not to mind the bad spelling and random apostrophe’s.
where’s the wrong apostrophe? come at me bro
I wasn’t talking about you, I was talking about the signs!
I’m not sure a better legal opinion can be given than “you need a license to have street furniture outside your premises in Dublin city.”
This recent article gives an indication of the Corpo’s supposed attitude to the issue.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/council-warns-of-crackdown-on-businesses-cluttering-paths-1.3346134
Argh, *licence. I hate that error with a vengeance.
You may be correct about sandwich signs.
But not chairs and tables. You need to apply to DCC for a licence.
This data is published (2011 data): https://data.gov.ie/dataset/street-furniture-licences-dublin-city
Butlers Wicklow St have a licence for:
Number of Tables Length Width Total Area
2 1.9 x 2 1.395 +0.87 4.25
And Oliver Saint John Gogarty have:
Number of Tables Length Width Total Area
9 – – 23.73
This. Is the correct answer.
Those illegal sandwich boards should be rounded up and accommodated into some NAMA hotel or other until their legal status is normalized. The should be allowed work.
It causes absolutely no problems. Moaning just to moan, you seriously need a life.
Anyone encroaching on my land gets to meet Nobby the alsation and my size 14 steel-capped boots.We both favour the shins and ankles.How you poor snowflakes suffer this nightmare outside a chocolate shop of all places worries me,he lied.
It’s only a relatively tight corner if your cycling from Wicklow Street (to the left of the picture), which incidentally is a one way street and against the legal traffic flow which you shouldn’t be doing anyhow as a upstanding caring member of the Dublin cycling community.
I guess what they’re on about is if you’re cycling on the left (which you should be) then you are in danger of people stepping suddenly out onto the road as they need to avoid other pedestrians: there isn’t enough room on the path because Butler’s have taken up too much space.
A cyclist could always ring their bell..or if they don’t have one shout out beep beep..?
Well you should be looking where you’re going ya prig
What? You can’t “look where you’re going” when someone steps out directly into your path when you’re cycling, you daw.
I have a bell, Anne, but generally I prefer roaring BEEP BEEP!
Pedestrians should be licensed, as should cyclists. Training for pedestrians should include a module on limiting sudden movements, such as suddenly stepping out onto roads. Do it slowly