Cycle lanes

[Taxi driver42]

Anyone drive down fitzwilliam st or merrion square?
All new parking and cycle lanes traffic down to one lane now
The city full of new cycle lanes church st one is mental

Total gridlock when we get back to normal

[watty]

Anyone drive down fitzwilliam st or merrion square?
All new parking and cycle lanes traffic down to one lane now
The city full of new cycle lanes church st one is mental

Total gridlock when we get back to normal

Gridlock alright!

The residents association in Fitz St/Merrion Sq have been giving out shite about those cycle lanes - says it demeans the area!

[Justin Time]

You can thank the Greens ( and the "cycle lobbyists") for all these bus lanes. Not a day goes by when there isnt a Green Councillor or TD taking the opportunity to have a photo op on the opening of a cycle lane or pedestrianisation of a street.
Thats all they have achieved since the last election.
They dont live in the real world.
Currently it is extremely difficult for delivery vans to park and load/unload. Taxi drivers have to go around the world now to get from A to B.
Hard to believe we have a housing crisis, homelessness, sky high rents,health system is chaos.
But at least we have "cycle lanes"
Fine Gael on Bikes= The Green Party.

[Shallowhal]

@JT......cos that's all they can deliver....oh and higher carbon taxes,increased/changing of motor tax bands....they did exactly the same in 08 when the country was headin over a cliff...useless shower of fuks!!

[mercenary for hire]

Greens have given 15 million towards electric taxis in the budget.They're not the worst...

Has there ever been this much money put aside by any government for taxis in the history if the state?Just saying.

[Shallowhal]

Greens have given 15 million towards electric taxis in the budget.They're not the worst...

Has there ever been this much money put aside by any government for taxis in the history if the state?Just saying.

Ah...that's a bit warped MFH.....there might be a 20k grant on the table for a car that's gonna cost 40k....i don't think there's many taxi drivers who will take up the offer and certainly won't be getting invited in to the bank managers office and handed a cheque for 20k.

[mercenary for hire]

More seriously...Have any of yis asked your insurance company who pays if a passenger gets in/out of your taxi at one of those bollard cycle lanes things and gets ran over by a bicycle at 35kmh?

Are we liable for the mess?

[TheDevilHimself]

Anyone drive down fitzwilliam st or merrion square?
All new parking and cycle lanes traffic down to one lane now
The city full of new cycle lanes church st one is mental

Total gridlock when we get back to normal

We won't be getting back to normal.

[Bob Shillin]

Greens have given 15 million towards electric taxis in the budget.They're not the worst...

Has there ever been this much money put aside by any government for taxis in the history if the state?Just saying.

Only giving back some of the alleged €20 mill surplus that Kathleen left in the bank when she handed over to the NTA.

[mercenary for hire]

I don't give them much at all.A few hundred a year at most.I hear lads talking about 20 million but where did it come from?

[Shallowhal]

I don't give them much at all.A few hundred a year at most.I hear lads talking about 20 million but where did it come from?

More to the point...where did it go?....a question asked at a PAC meeting to the then head of NTA....he could only come up with salaries as an answer as to where it disappeared to!!

[watty]

It gets worser - Radical expansion of cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin (Irish Times)

A radical expansion of cycle infrastructure across south Dublin is planned by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, following the success of the coastal cycle route from Blackrock to Sandycove.

A network of 25km of connected cycle routes will be created using quiet residential streets, parks, and existing cycle lanes, along with access-only arrangements on some streets, the closure of parts of other streets to traffic, and the introduction of a one-way system in Deansgrange.

Three primary routes are intended to facilitate safe cycling to at least 65 schools across the county, and will see previously disjointed cycle tracks connected for the first time.

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They've even given them 'catchy' names.

[mercenary for hire]

Sorry for stating the obvious but there's another reason they're promoting cycling and it's because fat fukkers like me are more likely to die from COVID.

You rarely see a fat bollix on a bicycle unless his car broke down.

[Taxi driver42]

Clown leader eamon ryan

[Rat Catcher]

Given our trade - both drivers and company bosses - pointing out it's unsuitability to the new normal it's incumbent on Govt/NTA to promote and incentivise safer, healthier, environmentally friendlier transport such as walking, jogging, running, skateboarding, cycling, rideshare, (electric) scooters, (electric) rickshaws, etc...