[OSM-talk-ie] Cycling infrastructure in Ireland

[Donal Hunt]

I'm very much aware of the sad state of affairs. Took me six months to get
signage on one sign changed earlier this year (and I strongly suspect it
only happened because I pestered the council enough). :/

The best action you can take is to get involved with the local campaigns
(Dublin Cycling Campaign is very active) and submit observations to public
consultations / planning requests either directly or through the campaigns.
Patience is slowly wearing out with many of the campaign groups due to the
tiny amounts of money being invested to get results like you mention.
Direct action groups like "I bike Dublin" are having an impact with getting
the message across in a meaningful way. I've also been trying to educate
cycling policy makers and planners to take advantage of data sets such as
Strava's metro heatmaps which show where cyclists are frequenting (and
avoiding). It's very slow. :(

I'm hoping openstreetmap will be useful in gathering data that can
highlight the sorry state of things (e.g. our longest continuous
non-yielding cycle track is 1km; we have XXX km of shared bus/cycle lanes
and XX km of dedicated cycle tracks). I'm a very strong believer that
people armed with data are a force to be reckoned with.

d.

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Colm Donoghue <colm.donoghue at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was probably overly cynical in my first reply, but there's a lot of
> really well built cycle lanes in D15 from the n2 towards Tyrrelstown where
> you can only turn left at roundabouts. There's a wall preventing leaving
> the cycle track...
> These are km long tracks...
>
> Then in my town, there's tracks that loose priority at every single
> junction
>
> And between Swords and Dublin airport, there's a two way cycle track,
> that's a foot wide...
>
> A schedule of cycle tracks would be good. It might allow some
> accountability of the state of them also, to get Local Auth say if they
> comply with dmurs or not
> Colm
>
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, 20:27 Donal Hunt <donal.hunt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If we get a good enough data set that would surely be an option (and
> > certainly partly what motivates me)... Getting an accurate dataset (e.g.
> > schedule of cycle facilities similar to what exists for roads) would be a
> > good start...
> >
> > d.
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Colm Donoghue <colm.donoghue at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Are you going to have a tag for badly designed cycle tracks, and
> another
> > > for dangerous/very poor state of repair cycle tracks?
> > >
> > > Colm
> > >
> > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, 17:20 Donal Hunt <donal.hunt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all!
> > > >
> > > > I've created a new page (
> > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ireland/Cycling)
> > > > to track efforts around cycling infrastructure in Ireland. I intend
> to
> > > > focus energy on documenting relevant information / project status
> > around
> > > > various cycle infrastructure mapping efforts.
> > > >
> > > > I intend to try and promote data gathering with the local cycling
> > > > campaigns, Cycling Ireland (for club cyclists) and Fáilte Ireland for
> > > > tourism purposes.
> > > >
> > > > Contributions welcome! Will share updates if anything positive comes
> of
> > > it.
> > > >
> > > > Donal
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