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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 13/09/2026

Why is RTE pretending that the planned fare increase isn't political? It's a choice. And when you release that it is a political choice, this "explainer" and its phrasing become very strange: www.instagram.com/reels/Dc1SyR...

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 10/09/2026

It definitely feels like there's been an increase in the use of cargo bikes since I started visiting the Netherlands in 2015... This is outside Driebergen-Zeist, a rural train station within cycling reach of a number of towns and villages:

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 25/08/2026

It's 2026, after 75 years, Mayo has finally brought the Sam McGuire Cup home, but the council has also invented a time machine and copied late 1990s-2010s cycling infrastructure...

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 18/08/2026

They have have a number of passes/subscriptions:

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 07/08/2026

Sometimes I might go too far in trying to prove to people that politicians and commentators are glossing over a few things...

The cover of the Irish Independent on Aug 01, 2000 with the main story headline of: "£4.3bn bill to put city back on the rails"

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 09/07/2026

After using the Capel St chicane barriers, they are worse for people wanting to walk on the shared space. There's pedestrians hopping up and down kerbs or left waiting with scooters/bikes while others are flowing from the other direction. People making wider turns etc and destabilising at barriers

Traffic cones acting as chicane barriers are getting pushed together or knocked down, etc. these ones were fixed five minutes later by a traffic controller, but still left below standard.

People regularly have to wait while it is single file in one direction through the barriers.

People cycling/scooting and illegally using mopeds are talking wide turns to get around the chicane barriers without being destabilised.

While it's single file for all users through the chicane barriers, pedestrians are hopping up and down on kerbs more to get around.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 01/07/2026

Honestly now, I've a lot of questions about DCC's approach to cycle paths, but why use surface treatment rather than red asphalt on a protected cycle path? Irish council are using surface treatment at junctions because there's an issue with the red asphalt used at junction. But this is bizarre:

A screenshot of a photo posted by Dublin City Council to Facebook showing a cycle path with a protected concrete kerb. The last 2 m or so of the cycle path is not asphalt but rather red surface treatment.

Two white lines are shown in the image. The first is a pedestrian crossing line and the second is a stop line. The asphalt stops in advance of the stoplight

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 27/06/2026

Yeah, according to a CSO survey, nationally, 3% of people say they rely on coal for their primary heating source, although 50%v

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 26/06/2026

This is about an Active Travel and Safe Routes to School project that includes retaining two-way traffic. It includes walking and cycling safety improvements, yet he rants about a "UN agenda" and claims he's "worried for my children's safety and freedoms in the near future ..you should be too."

Facebook comment with the following text: I'm disappointed with the attitudes of county councillors across the country let alone graiguecullen. This is a UN agenda. UN policies being forced through by the EU, under Ursula fond of lying and the ECB under a criminal called Christine Lagarde. Ask grok for details on that one.
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This plan will go ahead with minor changes to the details. ALL politicians who express wonderment or surprise and tell you they are listening to your concerns or that they are aware of public concern or they can stop it from going ahead are being disingenuous to say the least.
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Every community - now called settlements- from across the country that object to these plans are ignored by their respective "authorities" after spending hundread of thousands of euro "submitting" to their plans to change small inconsequential parts of it.
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We need to organise opposition to ALL sitting councillors, as none of them are in any position to stop this crazy road crash this country is facing..
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Graiguecullen is a small part of a bigger jigsaw, that paints a very dangerous picture that only reveals its self when the last piece clicks into place.
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I'm worried for my children's safety and freedoms in the near future ..you should be too.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 20/06/2026

If someone cycling here gets doored or hit by a car passing, should @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social take some responsibility? It's so far below modern standards, I don't know how anybody signed off on it. This is a critical safety issue -- remove the car parking or fully remove the cycle lane..

A cycle lane with car parking half over the second lane -- it's designed this way.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 16/06/2026

Sure, but when used as signs, there's a requirement that there's also an explainer plate.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 16/06/2026

In the context shown, what do you think the yellow warning marking means?

A cycle lane in Dublin at a signalled junction with a new yellow warning marking painted on the cycle lane.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 09/06/2026

Clearly, there's nowhere else they could have possibly parked...

A photo of a tractor parked up on a footpath on a low-traffic and low-parking-demand residential street where the carragway is wide enough for the tractor to be parked on the carragway and still for two cars to go by at the same time.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 28/05/2026

If you need to advise people to leave your event 90 minutes before their train departs, and the event is around 3km from the train station, there might be an issue with your shuttle bus provision.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 28/05/2026

One last point, most white kitchen goods and some couches etc are more likely to fit on cargo bikes or bike trailers than into the average car. Or you can hire or borrow a van or hire movers or whatever. Nobody is actually saying cycling can replace all trips.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 27/05/2026

While there will be a space suitable for events in front of the Bank of Ireland, overall a large percentage of the former carriageway on the included section of Dame St is planned to be green space:

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 22/05/2026

They have to be joking "....improving the safety of motorists and pedestrians..."?

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 18/05/2026

Yeah, YouTube and even mildly neutral west-of-Ireland voices...

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 18/05/2026

Using sections of what would be closed estate streets in Ireland as part of a city's cycle network is the norm in the Netherlands. Be aware of people trying to imply that these should be no-go areas for thought cycling.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 13/05/2026

Some readers say that IrishCycle is great, but it's "preaching to the converted." But most groups focus on informing people within their own group/industries/etc, and IrishCycle's reader base certainly goes beyond "the converted". Even accounting for the spike, this isn't just a narrow reader base:

Cloudflare data shows over 380,000 unique visitors to IrishCycle.com in the last 30 days.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 11/05/2026

"Nobody cycles in Dublin" ...meanwhile...

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 02/05/2026

My favourite bit was when it was described how, in an official response, the police said motorists are afraid to go down streets where children are playing, partly so their cars don't get damaged...

Section of the transcript:

Responsible, yeah.

I'll quote the, I think we were in touch about this before, Alice, but I'll quote the official ask the police response to the question, can ballgames be legally played on a public road?

Aside from the legal issues, it's not safe for children to play on roads.

This can also cause a nuisance for lots of people in the area who are wary of driving down the street for fear of knocking over a child or getting their cars damaged.

Oh, heaven forbid.

That's an official police response.

Wow.

Yeah.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 27/04/2026

That's likely a Moby Bike with the localised branding removed?

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 18/04/2026

I'm told a van driver reversed into this wall... How do they manage these things? Remember, pedestrians, watch out for bicycles!

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 31/03/2026

The reply I posted, especially for luckers to see:

Tinker A Taylor hi... do you mean that you cannot do these things? That's fair enough. To be clear: Nobody should be telling you to. Even if someone recommends it, you can always use your own judgement of what's best for you.

But let's get this clear -- you're not "all for cycling" as you're trying to present strawman arguments as fact. I'll break them down:

-- There's loads of people who cycle into Dublin City Centre daily or weekly for work and shopping. If you don't feel you can find a secure place for a bike that's fair enough, that's your call.

-- Dublin's winters are generally mild and comparable to Amsterdam where 50% of resident commuters cycle. We're living in 2026, cheap but still light and effective rain gear is pretty advanced compared to even a decade or two ago.

-- Tens of thousands of people cycle in the winter in Dublin without getting pneumonia or getting blown into traffic. In fact, people do so in Nordic countries with harsher winters. And I know of people who Immuno compromised and they cycle rather than getting the bus in winter because buses can be poorly ventilated. Again: Nobody is saying cycling in winter is for everyone.

-- You can go shopping if you want with smaller shops, or with a good city bike with a basket/create and large panniers, or even a large shop with a cargo bike, but again nobody is saying you have to (1) cycle at all, and (2) even if you cycle, it doesn't mean you have to...

...cycle everywhere. Loads of people walk, cycle or take the bus etc to work but use their car for a big weekly shop.

And finally, it's amazing you're replying like this to an image also including a bus, tram, train, and car. Can you please explain why you feel the need to? Is somebody putting pressure on you to cycle?

Of course, if people do choose to cycle, the benefits are really strong, just based on health alone. At the moment the benefits of switching from a car to cycling for just some trips is even stronger than normal.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 31/03/2026

You have to love Facebook. I post what's in the first image only to get the comment in the second image:

Facebook comment: "Can't cycle into Dublin City..... nowhere to lock your bike and expect it to be there when you return. Can't cycle in Winter unless you want to get pneumonia or get blown into oncoming traffic by the wind. Can't go shopping for a family of four on your bike. I'm all for cycling but there has to be honesty regarding its limitations."

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 24/03/2026

The case against making your cycle paths too wide? 🙃 Sure, where were the cyclists anyway? 😉

Two cars cross over a bridge on the Netherlands' busiest cycle path -- two children jokingly run in front of the first slow-moving car as an adult with them walks around. Cyclists in the background are waiting to cross to the bridge.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 22/03/2026

Are the issues with greenways and farms exaggerated?

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 09/03/2026

And a September 2023 article covering his annoyance at traffic plans and where it's clear that he knew cycling would be allowed on Capel Street: irishcycle.com/2023/09/13/t...

Screenshot from article:

Cllr Mannix Flynn (independent) — who is a serial objector to street changes which impact on cars, including taking the council to court over the Strand Road cycle route — said that the presentation on the plan had little mention of pedestrians, and instead, it was focused on cycling and buses. This is not true, O’Brien had repeatedly mentioned walking or pedestrians and shown images of extra public space.

He also claimed that Capel Street as it currently stands is “very confusing” and does not like cycling being allowed on the street.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 05/03/2026

A non-statutory public consultation on the 'preferred route corridor' for the proposed Rosslare Strand to Rosslare Harbour… irishcycle.com/2026/03/05/public-as…

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 04/03/2026

-- Minister for Transport commits to MetroLink construction starting in Q4 2027. irishcycle.com/2026/03/04/output-of…

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 04/03/2026

Me thinking while reading the action plan on Sustainable Mobility: "Action 71 has a 2030 deadline for a new DMURS? That's a very slow timeline for something that was to be reviewed already? How much of it is because it's some of the same people in charge of many of these policies?" ...and then...

Action: Carry out a review of the Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets (DMURS). Lead bodies: Departments of Transport and Housing. Other bodies NTA, TII. Deadline: 2030. Outcome: Updated DMURS published. Interm outcomes: Q3 2026 – Advice note on road space reallocation published. Q2 2027 – Publication of Strategic Report with
recommendations envisaged under Action 22.1 of the National Human
Rights Strategy for Disabled People: First Programme of Action
2025-2026. 2028 – Complete public consultation process.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 04/03/2026

The contra-flow cycle path on Nassau Street has been widened for a few months now, getting it ready to be a two-way cycle path. Was there a demonstrable need for these bollards?

A photo of the soon-to-be two-way cycle path on Nassau Street. Two or three plastic bollards are at the cycle track at each junction. There are people walking, cycling and scooting in the distance; there is also traffic in the distance.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 28/02/2026

"Utopian unworkable scheme” -- Marie Murphy "Leave well alone” - Geraldine O Neill “More room for tents in the city” - Matt Mullen "...It rains about 230 days a year Stupid Paddy’s” -- Stephen Luco The objectors have spoken... have you had your say?

An artist impression of College Green / Dame Street plaza.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 26/02/2026

These people are posting about College Green and Dame St plans daily, make sure to make your voice heard by making a submission and emailing the city councillors nearest where you live, work or visit:

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 19/02/2026

This is sadly real: The Hi Glo Silver Pledge When I walk or cycle, night or day, after school or when I go to play, I promise to make sure that I am seen, in reflective clothing that is bright orange, yellow or green. “Be Safe, Be Seen”

An image of an RSA certificate with the following text:

This certificate lets everyone know that
[space for name]
IS A HI GLO SILVER CHAMPION.
[There are also spaces for teachers and parents to sign their names]
The Hi Glo Silver Pledge
When I walk or cycle, night or day,
after school or when I go to play,
I promise to make sure that I am seen,
in reflective clothing that is bright orange, yellow or green.
“Be Safe, Be Seen”

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 18/02/2026

The first two here are zebra on the Waterford Greenway which use a different design but are literally junctions apart. Third photo is Limerick again.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 18/02/2026

2+1 seems to be shown in the bulk of my photos.

Parallel crossing (ahead of national guidance) in Westport, Co Mayo.

One of the first zebras allowed without beacons or signs in the DLRCC area.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 18/02/2026

Limerick City has a lot of variance but they also incorrectly use signs above zebras in a really weird way to the point that I think a note in a national advisory was about them:

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 18/02/2026

Looking at my photos (just searched for zebras) and most have 2 in the with flow lane and a single in the opposite side. Fyi there was a proposal to switch to the continental design, but it was long fingered as the bundle of changes were significant enough without it.

Zebra crossing in the South Dublin Co Co area.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 15/02/2026

The article basically has all of that -- the spreadsheet is linked in the article. This still stands: Allowing bicycles is the standard for most of the 57 metro systems across Europe, with restrictions mainly on older lines or systems without lifts or lifts suitable for non-folding bicycles.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 13/02/2026

This was worse, it was in slow moving traffic and the van driver was creeping forward...

The van driver holds their phone in your hand while also holding the steering wheel

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 13/02/2026

The main issues are on the edges. I cannot get over how bad this junction is. There's been a trend of project drawings being put out to public consultation or even planning before they are ready. But this is extreme. A signalled crossing followed by a continuous footpath? ☠️

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 13/02/2026

The more I look at the drawings, I can see a lot of great stuff, but also so many questions, like: Why is there such a pinch point being made here? (1) People will naturally hang out around the benches and green areas, so why design a pinch point here? (2) Why not use zebras?

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 13/02/2026

People are rightly at least somewhat worried about the pedestrians/cycling conflict. These things have to be carefully managed. But not just at the design level, at the network level too. If you really want to avoid too many people cycling via College Green, just get on with the Liffey Route.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 13/02/2026

And much needs to be seen from the lens of more people having to walk a little further because some buses diverted onto the quays and others along College Green n-s. If this is the main planned event space for regular events, is space always going to be kept for pedestrians going north-south?

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 13/02/2026

And can we please stop pretending that fully signalised pedestrian crossings work in low traffic areas? It's not helpful for anybody, especially people with disabilities.

People walking while cyclists have a green light.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 13/02/2026

Without moving tracks, there isn't much that can be done in the last image, but space isn't limited much once we get to the planned traffic-free area. Why keep the cycle path so close to its current area (marked in yellow)? Why not give people a bit of space before they have to cross it?

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