This taxi man drove onto the new €5m segregated Dublin cycleway today, as you can see.
Taxi man drives onto new €5m Dublin cycleway
Just weeks after cars were filmed driving on the new two-way segregated Dublin cycleway, a taxi has taken to it.
A photo has surfaced on social media of a taxi driver sitting or driving in his cab on the cycleway running along the seafront at Clontarf and Sutton in north Dublin.
He appears to be sitting in a stationary car, using it as a set-down area of sorts.
And, as the shot shows, he hasn’t just parked two of his wheels on the cycleway – though that would be bad enough.
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The entire vehicle is on the bike-side of the kerb that’s supposed to keep vehicles and bikes segregated.
The new 2km stretch of cycleway where the incident occurred was only opened in May at an estimated cost of €5 million.
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It filled in the ‘missing link’ in the 8.5km stretch of cycleway along Dublin Bay between Causeway Road and the Wooden Bridge.
This incident, coupled with the cars driving up onto the cycleway last month, suggests vehicles can get onto the new facility much too easily.
During the first incident, which we wrote about at the time, some motorists were unwilling to wait their turn to file through a flooded area during very heavy rain.
Instead, they undertook other vehicles and avoided the water completely by driving up onto the cycleway.
As soon as one driver decided to drive onto the two-way bike path others followed.
Let’s hope the Garda in Clontarf nips this behaviour in the bud.
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