Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

This is not easy but we have to do it. The fear from the cycling community is that the concept seems to be that when we come to difficult pinch points, the first response is to remove cyclists from the road. Yesterday, a cycling website released the initial drafts for Rathmines Road. Peak morning cycling numbers on the road are 1,650 or so, with approximately 1,300 cars and vans. Buses may have large numbers but compared to cars, cycling is the much bigger mode, yet the first response in getting this four-lane solution in everywhere is to narrow the footpaths in Rathmines and remove the cyclists in a way that is unworkable. The concern is that the first concept design is to take out cyclists.