Some very hot takes on the twitter thread if anyone has a bit of time to kill.
That area is now a mess with the cycle lanes.
There needs to be a compromise, because those kegs are fecking heavy.
DCC is the problem here.
I drive a lorry and try to see it from the drivers perspective, but there was no need for that, drive a bit further and park beyond the bollards on the double yellows and roll the kegs to the pub.
There’s a loading way 10 metres further down apparently, no excuse for a private company damaging public property.
My goodness!
Driver in a pub I worked for would leave the kegs in a public parking slot and refused to bring them to the actual entrance to the pub.
Not the hardest workers the fellas.
So they turned a loading bay on a public road into a seating area ? Is planning permission required ?
What are the safety requirements if someone is hit sitting there ?
Could make a new Guinness ad about it with a guy waiting for a pint at the other side.
fucking scut
Ah the old Patriots Inn.
There’s a Spar a few hundred metres up the road and the owner definitely had bollards outside his Spar removed overnight. For many years, people would illegally park outside the Spar, run in to get there few bits and back to there car. The council stuck in the god awful bike lane and bollards but they mysteriously disappeared overnight.
Driver is in the wrong, however, typical prick cyclist undertaking a large vehicle.
In New York the delivery cyclists call those bollards “vertical paint” because cars just drive over them all the same. I think DCC needs to pull the finger out and really dedicate to implementing fully separated bicycle lanes. Remove lanes from cars entirely, create “bike first” streets like the Netherlands, or at least add concrete curbs to stop this from happening.
Half-assing is the worst of all options. People on bikes getting nearly run over does little to help the goal of getting people out of cars.
Surely that’s a serious driving offence? Deliberately knocking down bollards because they’re inconvenient. What next, sideswipe the traffic lights when they go red?
I swear some cyclists live for this shit. Praying each day that they are mildly inconvenienced so they can get something on video to unleash their pent-up rage to with their fellow lycra-wearing mid-life crises knobheads.
As an ex keg delivery driver and current transport manager as well as cyclist, that truck driver is completely in the wrong. Doesn’t matter the circumstances you can’t do that!
I’d say it’s not the drivers first time delivering to this pub. It seems the footpath is at its widest just on the corner with the junction of Kilmainham Lane there so makes most sense to safely set down there. These lads are professional hgv drivers, they can definitely set down leaving enough room for pedestrians on the footpath, cyclists in the cycle lane and the road with pedestrian crossing unobstructed.
The cyclist in those Twitter replies tries to dictate that the delivery driver should have blocked the footpath, non-mandatory cycle lane and set down on double yellows 10 meters further down the road. Just shows how ridiculous a situation it is when that’s his advice, break the law several different ways in a more dangerous manner as the footpath is narrower there. The fact it’s so much further from the pub and uphill too would mean he’s causing a dangerous obstruction for a much longer time.
The cyclist thinks he’s being smart stating that the pub turned their “loading bay” into an area for tables and chairs, he would appear to be wrong about that too. One of the Twitter replies was someone who had actually done some research instead of making assumptions. They found no evidence that was ever a loading bay in the last 14 years based on Google maps photography.
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Some very hot takes on the twitter thread if anyone has a bit of time to kill.
That area is now a mess with the cycle lanes.
There needs to be a compromise, because those kegs are fecking heavy.
DCC is the problem here.
I drive a lorry and try to see it from the drivers perspective, but there was no need for that, drive a bit further and park beyond the bollards on the double yellows and roll the kegs to the pub.
There’s a loading way 10 metres further down apparently, no excuse for a private company damaging public property.
My goodness!
Driver in a pub I worked for would leave the kegs in a public parking slot and refused to bring them to the actual entrance to the pub.
Not the hardest workers the fellas.
So they turned a loading bay on a public road into a seating area ? Is planning permission required ?
What are the safety requirements if someone is hit sitting there ?
Could make a new Guinness ad about it with a guy waiting for a pint at the other side.
fucking scut
Ah the old Patriots Inn.
There’s a Spar a few hundred metres up the road and the owner definitely had bollards outside his Spar removed overnight. For many years, people would illegally park outside the Spar, run in to get there few bits and back to there car. The council stuck in the god awful bike lane and bollards but they mysteriously disappeared overnight.
Driver is in the wrong, however, typical prick cyclist undertaking a large vehicle.
In New York the delivery cyclists call those bollards “vertical paint” because cars just drive over them all the same. I think DCC needs to pull the finger out and really dedicate to implementing fully separated bicycle lanes. Remove lanes from cars entirely, create “bike first” streets like the Netherlands, or at least add concrete curbs to stop this from happening.
Half-assing is the worst of all options. People on bikes getting nearly run over does little to help the goal of getting people out of cars.
Surely that’s a serious driving offence? Deliberately knocking down bollards because they’re inconvenient. What next, sideswipe the traffic lights when they go red?
I swear some cyclists live for this shit. Praying each day that they are mildly inconvenienced so they can get something on video to unleash their pent-up rage to with their fellow lycra-wearing mid-life crises knobheads.
As an ex keg delivery driver and current transport manager as well as cyclist, that truck driver is completely in the wrong. Doesn’t matter the circumstances you can’t do that!
I’d say it’s not the drivers first time delivering to this pub. It seems the footpath is at its widest just on the corner with the junction of Kilmainham Lane there so makes most sense to safely set down there. These lads are professional hgv drivers, they can definitely set down leaving enough room for pedestrians on the footpath, cyclists in the cycle lane and the road with pedestrian crossing unobstructed.
The cyclist in those Twitter replies tries to dictate that the delivery driver should have blocked the footpath, non-mandatory cycle lane and set down on double yellows 10 meters further down the road. Just shows how ridiculous a situation it is when that’s his advice, break the law several different ways in a more dangerous manner as the footpath is narrower there. The fact it’s so much further from the pub and uphill too would mean he’s causing a dangerous obstruction for a much longer time.
The cyclist thinks he’s being smart stating that the pub turned their “loading bay” into an area for tables and chairs, he would appear to be wrong about that too. One of the Twitter replies was someone who had actually done some research instead of making assumptions. They found no evidence that was ever a loading bay in the last 14 years based on Google maps photography.