Dublin City Council has started a campaign to tell motorists to yield to pedestrians and cyclists at new ‘continuous footpaths’ on side roads and yield to cyclists at main junctions with flashing amber turn signals.
The videos were produced as the Clontarf to City Centre project, which includes these features, is in its last months of main construction. However, the instructions apply to these designs when used across the city.
A continuous footpath at a side road is one that continues across the mouth of a junction in both height and appearance. At side street junctions, pedestrians normally have to drop down to road level at crossing points, but continuous footpaths maintain the level of the footpath.
The design of continuous footpaths differs from traditional raised crossing points in that raised crossing points use materials different from those used in footpaths. Continuous footpaths maintain the look of a footpath except for bevelled kerbs or ramps on each side.
Cyclists must also yield to pedestrians who are on continuous footpaths.
Main junctions with flashing amber turn signals have already appeared in several locations around the city, with and without segregated cycle paths.
Dublin City Council has developed the videos below and information leaflets explaining where motorists are expected to yield.
Continuous footpaths at side roads:
Video of continuous footpaths at side roads:
Flashing amber left turn light at junctions:
Video of flashing amber left turn lights at junctions: