The interim Liffey Cycle Route is now in place, and there are no current or short-term plans to improve the safety or attractiveness along the route from Parkgate Street to the Docklands.
As reported last month, Dublin City Council said that the gaps in Liffey Cycle Route will be “evaluated after the full implementation” of measures proposed in the Dublin City Centre Transport Plan, which is years away.
The gaps in the route and other issues which this website highlighted in 2020 before Covid are being put on the long finger again.
So, we’re asking: What’s your view of cycling along Dublin quays? Have the improvements gone far enough? Have you been hit or had a close call cycling along Dublin’s quays?
Please report collisions, near misses and hazards on Collisiontracker.ie/report. You can also comment below, but the preference is to also log the issue on Collisiontracker.ie.
Having cycled up and down the lower quays element from the IFSC downriver a few times in the last month, I can say that it is standard fare for DCC – utter garbage.
– Piecemeal transitions on and off-road heading up-river
– Mixing with pedestrians throughout in a hugely busy pedestrian area at rush-hour nightmare.
– Zero to no segregation down-river with competition from tour buses and taxis “parking”
– Shared surfaces at the bridges
– Toll bridge an f’ing nightmare that should have had the pedestrian/bike bridge beside it years ago
Overall, yeah – par for the course for DCC and its hobby-greenway-focused attitudes.
On near-misses, only had such on the murder strip outside of Liberty Hall years ago. That said, I am what DCC caters for – “confident cyclists” that have eyes in the back of the head, 6th sense, assertively take lanes etc. Been cycling in Dublin city since my early teens so have seen all there is to see. We absolutely should not be building bike/mobility infrastructure for the likes of me.
Build it as if you wanted your 11 year daughter to cycle to school or to her friend’s house.
I am ‘not a cyclist’, and I agree with everything you’ve said here, Marks. Your last paragraph in particular is spot on, and should be the guiding principle for active travel policy and road design in Dublin (and everywhere, frankly).
DCC did it’s usual thing of building cycle ways as if we only ever go in straight lines. I like that you can get into George’s quay more safely now but it’s almost impossible to come off of you are not cycling the entire way down the wrists in a straight line. Doesn’t help either with clowns busting through red lights, overtaking on the other side etc
Agreed with previous two contributors.
I’m an octogenarian who still does everyday cycling around our city, but I avoid any route with Luas tram tracks so accessing the quays (N & S) to the west of O’Connell bridge is problematic for me.
My guiding principle for designers of cycling infrastructure is would you let your school-going age son/daughter or octogenarian cycle there.
Road safety auditing requires the auditor to cycle schemes with those end users in mind.
I live in Ringsend all my life and watched the Eastlink been built as a child, how on earth 40 years on this remains this still remains present day a death trap to cyclist when it is a self funding cash cow is an absolute disgrace, completely slows down any cycle journey north or south.