A 20 second video showing what it’s like cycling in Dublin

by 3hrstillsundown

30 comments

  2. Fucking hell – how far do you have to be zoned out not to look for traffic before joining the other road?

  3. I have cycled in Dublin as a commuter cyclist for around 10 years now at this stage. Its never been great but in the last numbers of years maybe 3/4 its really gotten bad as in putting your life in your hands bad. Each and every time I go out, something minor is bound to happen. I have a motorcycle also and it really has come in handy in terms of training, literally go out with the mind set everyone is out to kill you. TBH, I would feel safer on the motorbike, cause you have a bit of power under you to get out of situations created by morons.

  5. Same drivers will object to segregated cycle lanes that reduce, not eliminate, these incidents. Our planners are then also afraid to fully commit to making junctions safe for people walking or cycling at the convenience of drivers.

  6. JC, escaper 2 attempts to get hit by the 3rd. That junction is not that difficult for cars. Its easy to see everything. All those drivers should be fined for dangerous driving. All big massive cars too.

    Any word on the cyclist?

  7. They should add as a part in driving exam where you on the bicycle and almost get hit or maybe even actually hit(realistic controlled accident recreation), create nice memory to look out for cyclists

  8. People seem to lose their minds around cyclists, desperate to not get held up for even a second. I feel like people don’t like them because it exposes a big hole in their driving skills and they get nervous. All they want is to be past them as quickly as possible and this often leads to close passes and dangerous situations where the cyclist will always come off worse. Anytime anyone tries to talk about it it always turns into a ‘yeah but some cyclists did this’ yeah but some drivers do this’ and nothing changes.

  9. It’s so much worse than it used to be. People now routinely and intentionally ignore red lights and I don’t mean just turned red

  10. Dopes riding in giant motors.

    We need higher tax on non commercial jeeps and utility vehicles.

    If you can’t see a brightly coloured cyclist, in his lane, on a sunny day. You have no business driving an urban assault vehicle.

  11. It may just be me but there is a certain type of car causing all the problems here.

  12. After driving in dublin this weekend, there are 3 things I’ve noticed. Bus drivers are a liability on the road, Red light running is rampant and delivery cyclists couldn’t give a fiddlers fuck about the rules of the road.

  13. I was driving alongside a segregated cycle lane yesterday. A cyclist pulled straight out in front of me on to the road.

    I was going out until I realised there was a fan reversing down the cycle lane and two more parked cars fully blocking it

  14. I only commuted to work for about 2 months. In that time I was knocked down once and saw two other cyclists get knocked out. All of us were unhurt and all accidents were the exact same scenario. Cars turning left across an occupied bike lane without looking. All of these accidents were in the middle of the day.

  15. I get the bus that crosses that route daily. Every fucking morning there’s cars just breaking the lights, or blocking lanes exactly like the cars at 10 seconds do.

    It’s fucking lethal for cyclists

  16. That’s shocking driving.

    Hope the cyclist wasn’t too badly hurt.

  17. My wife and I went for a walk in the Phoenix park on Friday and saw that a car had knocked down a cyclist. It’s ridiculous how reckless drivers can be even in what I would consider “cycling” friendly locations like the park.

  18. The only traffic enforcement I ever see are speed vans on dual carriageways. Bus lanes, red lights, boxes, continuous lines – none of those mean anything. But if you’re doing 105 in a 100kph stretch of empty dual carriageway, that’s a problem.

  20. Christ, I think covid did a lot on Irish people’s patience. We used to be much better at manners and letting people by but the past few years, it’s gone crazy. I think it’s this bad around the country, not just Dublin.

    Even walking. Honestly that sounds dumb but the amount of times people will just walk directly into you, or not move out of the way, or be in pairs and taking up the whole path. Especially walking across roads and zebra crossings. So many cars will try their luck and go. You genuinely have to walk out in front of them to stop them and then they get mad??! Pedestrians have the right of way, is that not taught anymore??

    Same with those scooters. People just flying by on paths, like it’s people’s responsibility to watch out for?

    Not sure what has gotten into people but that attitude was half the reason why Ireland was a nice place to live. Total knobjockeys.

  21. I used to cycle to work every day when I lived just outside the city centre. I had never been knocked off my bike until I had a proper incident, but a few near accidents due to no driver awareness.

    – Cars pulling out into the cycle lane to get ahead to the left turning lane.
    – Cars pulling across the road expecting you to stop. They some beep at you because you made them stop.
    – The turning lane like in the video is a common one. They only look out for big objects. Too much in a hurry.

    The final one was when I was cycling up Bird Avenue just after they had re-done the road. A car pulled right out of the church carpark without even looking and I went right over the bonnet and smacked my head off the ground. Thankfully helmet on as usual. Wreaked my wrists and ripped a good deal of skin off my left kneecap. Driver fled the scene. All I could remember was a unclean silver 07 passat.

    Went to Dundrum guards, but as sympathetic as they were, since I had no reg-plate they said I could do nothing. I didn’t ask for anyone at the scene if they saw what happened. Only another cyclist coming by a minute later saw me resting on the wall and offered to help me ring someone as they could see what just happened.

    My girlfriend at the time told me there’s such a thing as bystander effect where people just don’t want to get involved when they see something. It sort of effected me mentally for a while after that I was just run over like I didn’t exist and just felt so on my own sitting there will people driving by.

    I can certainly see why cyclists invest in cameras these days. At the time I was thinking of getting one and another part of me blamed myself for not getting one, as it could have helped me in that time.

    I do cycle now and again, but not to work.

  22. Absolutely hate cycling in cities or large towns for this reason. Had so many close calls. Though Irish countryside is bad too for different reasons.

  23. I was nearly crushed by a lorry last year on the Stillorgan Road. I was going straight on a green light and he decided to try and overtake to turn left. It’s like I wasn’t there at all. Genuinely the scariest moment of my life. I wish nothing but hardship on the cunt.

  24. What in the absolute back-fuck is happening here 🤷🏻‍♂️
    Like Jesus the cyclists are wearing bright colours and all, I’d nearly forgive the first guy coming out of his drive though should always creep out slowly there but the other 2 wtf🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ hope all ok

  25. I cycled to work for 20 years. Stopped doing it after I had kids. Had too many close calls. Couldn’t afford to be laid up with a broken limb or much worse. Such a shame because it was by far the quickest way I could get into work. Not to mention the fitness benefits but it’s no use being a fit looking corpse.

  26. The Second BMW driver tried to accelerate out in front of the second cyclist so they would have to yield for an additional 3 seconds…

  28. What on Gods name was the guy in the Merc doing? Zero awareness. Deserves to have the book thrown at him.

  29. I had a run in just the other morning with some moron in her brand new jeep. She actually followed me down the road to have a go at me, and then had the fucking cheek to call me a cunt when I pointed out she’d been in the wrong for trying to undercut me and being in the wrong position on the road.

    And this was in the tiny little village I live in, not on some busy road somewhere.

  30. People are insane. The other day, I watched a jogger run down the bike lane in the opposite direction of traffic during rush hour, seemingly because she wanted to be road running. Several bikes had to swerve out of the bike lane just to avoid her. Might be the maddest thing I’ve seen a pedestrian do.

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