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Your videos are a great way to see Dublin City.
Definitely it can I don’t live there but I can relate, great video btw👍
The temporary protected lanes are a great improvement but they need to be wider and resurfaced. And connected to each other. We need to be able to get from A to B on a safe cycle lane. Not just on a few spots on a route.
There is only so far infrastructure can go. Dublin's geography (sea, hills), weather (need I say it) and road width is not conducive for cycling. Cycling lanes help but they cannot prevent slips and falls
Dublin is definitely improving for cyclists but a lot of people responsible for cycle lanes are not cyclists themselves so there is room for improvement there.
Dublin is definitely the place where I feel the safest cycling. Rode in sao paulo , paris, london but Dublin is the best.
I would not be willing to cycle in the city there are far too many accidents happening with stupid pedestrians and angry drivers but it would be really nice if there were more bikes then cars on the road. It can be done and I would like to be part of that. Just got a bike myself after decades.
Cars can be sent on circuitous routes leaving direct routes for public transport, bikes and pedestrians.
The advantage of being a cyclist is that if, or, when we come to a hill that's beyond our fitness/leg strength, we can get off our bikes & walk on the path with bike until we reach level ground. A lot of people took up cycling for the first time, or, returned to cycling after many years off it during the pandemic. Their fitness may not be able for the hills, especially over the canal bridges at Harolds X & Portobello. I used to be able to take those "Canal Humps" years ago no bother, went back to cycling in February 2020. Not a hope of cycling over them now. I'd be dead!!!!!
Dublin isnt a safe place to cycle at all.
Started cycling for part of my work commute at the beginning of the pandemic (drive half-way to a public parking lot, then cycle the remainder), for a few months before we moved to full time remote. Now I miss those morning and afternoon rides, even with the shared roads.
Considering moving to Dublin for a new job, and I'm very glad to see that the commute would be possible on a bike. (As an American, the thought of driving on the left side in a city terrifies me way more than cycling ever has.)
Great video and great comments down below too.
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I live in a rural area 100km from the big smoke and have been cycling quite a lot over the last two years but I have to admit that I would certainly be intimidated by the thought of getting on my bike or using one of the bikes for hire in Dublin in the middle of rush hour traffic without getting used to the cycling environment before hand. Scary!
Is there such a thing as cycling lessons in Dublin?
I'm pro cycling but also couldn't practically live without a car. I just use it less than I used to for local trips as time allows.
Car's certainly do need to be redirected around certain areas to allow for additional cycling lanes. In Dublin and every other large urban area too
Additional busses and Luas too. I know, stating the obvious there.
Also possibly free car parking 6-10km outside of the city centre off every major route to allow people to park and cycle or public transport commute in the rest of the way?
Also, and would I be wrong as a non Dubliner to suggest this…?
Secure bike parking.
Places with onsite security where there's one way in, one way out. Get your ticket/tag/whatever for a euro or two or three (? naively optimistic?) per day, paper or electronic, one for you, one for the bike. The bike can't leave if the two don't match.
As far as I know, bike theft is pretty bad in Dublin. I'd certainly pay for peace of mind that my two wheels would still be there 8 or 10 hours later.
I could go on with suggestions but us stable geniuses need to leave something for the rest of you all to think about 🎓😉
Safe cycling everyone.
Dublin is a dump! Like third world country.
I'm thinking about buying a bike to cycle into college in city centre. But the roads terrify me. It just looks so dangerous
I love cycling in Dublin and it really doesn’t rain as much as people think.
The 'protected lane on 30 seconds, is not, despite the short posts. Short posts, wands, and other such segregation can and are easily breeched by motorised vehicles.
Dublin indeed has potential.
But we have a tendency to not maintain infrastructure (glass, debris..repairing…).
In addition, infrastructure is largely piecemeal, haphazard and generally ignores best practice as exemplified in Denmark, The Netherlands…
There is no consistency in design, signage, colour coding of paths, lights, conflict zones…throughout the country let alone Dublin. This adds to the already dangerous conditions.
Until we, as near as possible, replicate the measures put in place to encourage safe, e.g. in Barcelona, we will do the usual Irish thing and just immaturely muddle along.
Don't get me started on the previsions on trains for bicycles.
I approve of Dublin becoming more environmentally friendly. However, my experience of Dublin Cyclists is that 90% of them do not obey the rules of the road. I am a pedestrian with a walking disability and countless times cyclists have violated my right of way at pedestrian crossings. Cyclists show some respect to your fellow Dubliners.
Im sorry dude but they are giving you scraps. Those lanes are a joke and we should be demanding more.
What about cycling in smaller cities?
Cykling in dublin is very dangerous i have lived in many countries in europe inkl sweden Denmark Norway i have biked in europe asia. infrastruktur definitely not in place and are far from any European standard and irish drivers basically got their driving license from a serial box and commen sense in trafik is beyond reach they park everywhere sidewalks bike lanes roundabouts highways you name it as long its comfortable. Public transport is absolut trash and would be equivalent to a undeveloped nation.
Then there is the bike and escooter highjackers if traffic wont get your these people will and police will be no where to be seen ALOT OF TIMES even after you call them they will tell you come in to police station and file paper works…. and nothing ireland have alot of big issues that would be considered basic in any European country.. hightax but nothing in return poor healthcare public transport safety from law enforcemnt and common commuters. Solution get a car haha noooo crazy traffic sky high car insurance prices (never seen anything even lose to the prices here) finally if you like nice cars you will a population trying to sabotage the car with slaming doors in to you car sitting on your hood, tyre stabbing paint scratching aaaaand ofc among highest unregulated housing market ¹²⁰⁰euro for a small room…..
I never lived in a country with lower standards unfortunately…
I watch 'Not Just Bikes' alot and he highlights how cycling infrastructure in Amsterdam is handled. It's built so you can cycle continuously for long periods of time and have as little interaction with cars with a separate network of bike paths. And they even have priority for bikes in some cases. I do think that Dublin and Cork should be pushed much further in the cycling and public transit direction. They're still relatively small cities so there's alot of potential. Plus the TFI bike sharing in Cork is pretty confusing. I cycle alot but I still don't understand the 3 day pass thing. I think a pay to use option on the spot would be much better, sort of like what we do with buses.
Great video 🙂
it did NOT take me 15 minutes to cycle from Mountjoy Square to Crumlin 😂😂😂 as a cycler myself I find Dublin very scary compared to cities like Barcelona or Brussels… but it is still doable, just be careful and wear a helmet.
I love a lot of things about Ireland but the unsafe cycling and so being forced into a car is depressing
I recently moved to Dublin from Vienna and before that I lived in Novi Sad. Of the three, Dublin is by far the least cycling-firendly. I commute by bike daily because it is still better than other options, but it is mostly just white-line separated, non-segragated bike lanes that double as carparks outside of rush hours and shared cycling+bus lanes (which are crazy scary and I have not seen something like it anywhere else). Dublin has a LONG way to go to become a cycling city.
Did something change?
Great video! Enjoyed watching it although the narrow bike lanes and having to ride on the left side of the road kind of scares me(I'm in Canada) lol visiting Dublin in late May and thinking of exploring the city and hopefully the rural parts with a bike if possible, since that's what I usually do on a vacation abroad. How is it now? Your video's from two years ago so I wonder if there's been any improvement. I'm just starting to do the research, so gonna look up more info but I'd like to see if you have more recent insights to offer. Thanks.
Wear a helmet. For god's sake. Just do it. We ALL have several close calls per year(sometimes per month). It's not worth it. On a bike you are on a prone position to accelerate on the way down to the pavement, the curb or the hood of a car with your head ALWAYS being the LAST thing that hits, meaning(physics) it has the most force applied to it during a collision. Whatever you think it looks like, forget it. You are only half as cool when you are spoon fed for the rest of your life.
Well done on the video. Dublin is really improving wrt cycling infrastructure but it will take a generation before we reach the standard of Amsterdam or Copenhagen and at least the government seems to be resourcing the project. Up to this point we have been slave to the car and at least we as cyclists are being listened to- roll on 👍