A brand new urban junction redesign in Limerick City continues the trend in Ireland of mixing cycling with both motorists and pedestrians.
The Parnell St/Wickham St scheme by Limerick City and County Council is under construction. The below images are from the tender documents for the project.
The design of the project includes the common problem with Irish cycle routes of putting people cycling into different types of share spaces with both pedestrians and motorists.
Most of the cycling area on the project drawings are painted unprotected cycle lanes, yet, the council expects people cycling and wanting to make a right turn to do so by first divert onto a footpath.
These are the tender drawings for the layout of the Parnell St/Wickham St junction which is currently under construction. I'm trying to figure out how cycle traffic is supposed to get to Roches St from either Gerald Griffin St or Sexton St. (the 1way streets in the bottom right) pic.twitter.com/1wIJ8YPDpv
— Limerick Cycle Design (@LkCycleDesign) August 19, 2019
After weeks trying to crack this puzzle I've finally settled on this route from Gerald Griffin St to Roches St as the one the designer wants cycle traffic to take but this can't work if the legend is correct. Did anyone vaguely familiar with the concept of cycling review this? pic.twitter.com/DSBkGI69QJ
— Limerick Cycle Design (@LkCycleDesign) August 19, 2019
Unfortunately, it appears construction of this junction as designed in under way. Maybe they've modified the design since because it just won't work and nobody is going to use it. #FixLimerickCycling pic.twitter.com/QP50u1drVw
— Limerick Cycle Design (@LkCycleDesign) August 19, 2019