Dublin is old enough that many of the streets predate the automobile. The streets are narrow because they were designed for horse ,carriage ,bicycles and pedestrians . Bicycles and their riders have an equal right to Dublin streets as do cars because the bicycle predates the automobile.
Why must they cannibilize road space for a cycle lane? How about expand towards he sea, pushing out the footpath towards the sea thus creating space for a cycle lane and 2 lanes for cars
It is a bit unfair to take space taken away from a main road. I think that would be the best idea, to extend out to the sea and have a bike path all the way along there, but that would cost a lot of money and will take years until it gets done. I believe what they are trying to do is get data from this, if it's worth to have something like that implemented.
Legally impossible. Dublin Bay is a UNESCO Protected Biosphere. If you want to build into a protected biosphere, in your planning application you have to show evidence that you attempted alternatives, this trail is the alternative. Therefore it must be trialed before planning permission would ever be approved.
It depends what the end goal is. If the goal is to get more people on bikes, for better air quality, congestion problems, peoples health (obesity epidemics for example) and so on, than making cycling easier, safer and faster achieves just that. It reduces amount of cars on the roads (more people using bikes), by making taking a car more of a hassle. If you look at infrastructures in bike friendly cities, you see that with infrastructure changes like that, the traffic is not pushed to side streets (like the excuses mentioned in this video that pop up every time road lanes are "taken away"), but rather the amount of traffic reduces overall. A youtube channel "Not just bikes" has good videos on that topic.
Love your video! As a Dutchman living in Ireland for 22 years I am still baffled by the "would never work in Ireland mentality " ;-)
Dublin is old enough that many of the streets predate the automobile. The streets are narrow because they were designed for horse ,carriage ,bicycles and pedestrians . Bicycles and their riders have an equal right to Dublin streets as do cars because the bicycle predates the automobile.
Yes!!! My grandad built them !!!!!
man cycling a road bike on the beach is criminal
No bikes were harmed during the making of this video. Don't worry it's been cleaned.
Why must they cannibilize road space for a cycle lane? How about expand towards he sea, pushing out the footpath towards the sea thus creating space for a cycle lane and 2 lanes for cars
It is a bit unfair to take space taken away from a main road.
I think that would be the best idea, to extend out to the sea and have a bike path all the way along there, but that would cost a lot of money and will take years until it gets done. I believe what they are trying to do is get data from this, if it's worth to have something like that implemented.
Legally impossible. Dublin Bay is a UNESCO Protected Biosphere. If you want to build into a protected biosphere, in your planning application you have to show evidence that you attempted alternatives, this trail is the alternative. Therefore it must be trialed before planning permission would ever be approved.
Thanks for the comment Kevin. Good point!
It depends what the end goal is. If the goal is to get more people on bikes, for better air quality, congestion problems, peoples health (obesity epidemics for example) and so on, than making cycling easier, safer and faster achieves just that. It reduces amount of cars on the roads (more people using bikes), by making taking a car more of a hassle.
If you look at infrastructures in bike friendly cities, you see that with infrastructure changes like that, the traffic is not pushed to side streets (like the excuses mentioned in this video that pop up every time road lanes are "taken away"), but rather the amount of traffic reduces overall. A youtube channel "Not just bikes" has good videos on that topic.
Pretty good insight, thanks for the comment matko! I will check out that channel.
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😂 Thanks haha. I haven't heard anyone say that word before
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