Motorists have simply ignored the council's best efforts to keep cars from parking on this cycle lane - this is not an April Fool’s Day joke, honestly.
When parents kept parking illegally outside a school in Galway, the local council decided to act.
It erected these orange plastic bollards to separate the bike lane from the road and to prevent cars from parking when they dropped off or collected little Johnny and Mary.
But incredibly, a local campaign group in Galway has spotted vehicles driving around the barriers and parking on the cycle lane anyway.
Galway City Council got to work during the Easter school holidays and erected the barriers on Threadneedle Road, where illegal parking on the cycle lane had become a real problem.
Obviously the full length of the problematic stretch of cycle lane right outside the school couldn’t be blocked with bollards.
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The entrance to the school needed to be kept clear for vehicles to drive in and out.
But now it seems that some motorist are driving through that gap and up the cycle lane with two wheels on the pavement and two on the bike lane and they’re continuing to park there.
And it looks like the opposite end of the barriers - where they end - is also being used as an entrance into the "cycle lane parking spot".
Only this time they are inside the barriers erected to keep them out.
It remains to be seen if this is just a once off, or if parents will get the message when school returns that this lane is not a car park.
All of these photos have been taken and published by the Galway-based Community Road Safety Action & Information Network (Cosain).
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The cars parked up the cycle lane a few weeks ago just before the soft barriers were put in.
In January; no shortage of cars parked on the cycle lane.
The work completed in recent days.
The cycle lane is now out of bounds for motorists, you would think.
The barriers must end somewhere and it appears some motorists have been using this spot as an entrance to the "parking" space behind the barriers designed to keep them out.
Several vehicles parked behind the barriers and on the bike lane.
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