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:
Amen
Hopefully the RSA follows this up with a campaign to remind motorists to yield to pedestrians crossing on side roads without a continuous footpath!
This will change nothing unless enforced with fines and there are already so many rules of the road in ireland and practically zero enforcement so this will just make pedestrians and cyclists even more arogant of risks and more pedestrians and cyclists will die.
Without any mechanism for motorists to actually test or accept such guidance as “junctions with flashing amber turn signals” referring to people walking or cycling as opposed to other motorists, will mean that it will be just another rule that motorists will ignore.
This means absolutely nothing without enforcement —