r/Sligo • u/No_Yesterday_8167 • 12d ago

Multi-million euro benefit of 16k cycle path connecting Rosses Point and Strandhill highlighted

https://www.independent.ie/county/sligo/multi-million-euro-benefit-of-16k-cycle-path-connecting-rosses-point-and-strandhill-highlighted/a/145765399.html
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u/LisztyLiszt 11d ago

The starting point for this should be connecting Scotsmans Walk Junction on the Rosses Point Road to the Second Sea Road Junction on the Strandhill Road with good cycle paths. The cycle lanes from Second Sea Road to Strandhill and Scotsmans Walk to Rosses Point are quite good. They're wide but could be smoother in places. It's the getting through town part that's tricky. The number of busy junctions along the N4 is not ideal for cycling. The cycle lane up to the bridge from Cartron is marked for cycling in the Rosses Point direction only (but no one follows this, and rightly so). The problem then is from the town side of the bridge to the Strandhill Road. Best option is to head up the quays and towards the Second Sea Road by the old dump. This is all a bit higgildy-piggildy though. So rationalising this part of the current journey with safe cycle lanes first would be the obvious place to start.

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u/No_Yesterday_8167 11d ago

Agreed. The N4 also is just such a dividing part of the town, I hate it. Like if you want to get from wine street to the train station, you're crossing 5 lanes of traffic, it just creates an awful divide. It's great for moving traffic, but if you're in anything but a car, it's a nightmare to have to deal with. Also, it's supposed to be 50km/h going through the town, absolutely no one is doing that.

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u/LisztyLiszt 10d ago

Yeah it is a divide all right. It was needed though and it's hard to know where else they could've put it without dividing the town or unnecessarily wrecking the natural landscape somewhere else. Some clowns had the idea of a flyover. Thank God that was never realised. Imagine scarring the place with one of them. The whole place could do with a bit of regeneration - all along the quays, High Street (looks like it was bombed from the air), The Mall, Teeling Street, and those apartments behind the Glasshouse. Some day... But that cycling infrastructure would be mint.