Cian Ginty 
Dublin City Council’s plan for the Grafton Street Quarter, released last week, is yet another example of how the city can’t take walking, cycling or civic spaces seriously. They don’t want to change traffic flows to the area — they seem to fear changing traffic.
A new roundabout design which includes large bicycle logos marked in the single lane of the roundabout is causing some confusing.
The design — which is based on the National Cycle Manual — has been implemented by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on the Sandyford Hall roundabout on the Kilgobbin Road in south Dublin.
Herald.ie has a photograph of the roundabout, in an article covering the confusion. However, the article it self incorrectly and confusingly calls the main and only lane on the roundabout a “cycle lane” and “the lane marked for bicycles”.
The roundabout is a single-lane roundabout, the centre overrun area is exclusively for large buses and trucks.
Below is what the National Cycle Manual says about this type of roundabout… (It’s also worth looking at the section of the manual on roundabouts to read the design principles of cycling-friendly roundabouts and the general principles of the manual)
Up to 20 of the 58 planned extra DublinBikes stations are “due to be constructed by Christmas”.
The council has previously said that new stations will be added to the system one-by-one as work on each of the new stations, and one station being expanded, is finalised.
The expansion includes 950 new bikes and around 2,000 extra parking stands at the 58 planned stations. When the expansion is expected to be completed next summer the system should have 1,500 bikes and 102 stations with around 3,000 stands.
On-street work on the expansion of DublinBikes is starting on Talbot Street. The current station is to have additional stands added to it. From dublinbikes.ie: “Temporary Station Closure – Talbot Street (14/10/2013) … Read more
Dublin cyclists wishing to comment on the Greater Dublin Area cycle network plan must do so before the 5pm deadline tomorrow.
All of our coverage can be read here. The National Transport Authority has published a written report and maps here — you give your feedback, make a comment or attach your submission at the bottom of the same page.
Below is a guild to locating the maps for the Dublin metropolitan area:
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