Irish Cycle Design Manual 2023

Ireland’s national transport authority has published a new cycle design manual available for download here.

Five Design Principles for Bicycle Infrastucture

Almost immediately one can see the Dutch influence, notably the five key design principles of a successful cycle network; safety, coherence, directness, comfort and attractiveness, mentioned in Chapter 2. These are well known to Dutch planners, see for example ‘Five Design Principles for Bicycle Infrastructure‘.

Protected T-junction

One can also see example of a Dutch style protected T-junction, with arguably too many markings on the bicycle path.

We have used similar ideas in our proposed improvements to Morkel and Jonkershoek, and Endler and Martinson.

Should the link to download the manual change or be removed, we uploaded a copyhere for our own convenience.