One evening, as I was cycling along the Grand Canal, I came to turn left towards Harold's Cross when I noticed ten (10!) people on bike queueing, waiting for the red light to change. There were two more cyclists behind the woman in purple that aren't visible in this picture so it adds up to 12 or 13 cyclists including your humble cyclist.
A few years ago such a wonderful view would have been virtually unseen in Dublin. Nowadays it's a commonplace.
As you can see from the photograph, so many people can fit into such a narrow space when on bike. Conversely, as an average automobile carries about 1.5 persons, try to imagine how would it look like if all these cyclists were to use a car instead...
Feel free to send a link to this post the next time you hear a driver complaining about cyclists who supposedly get into their way...
I took the picture on Robert Emmet Bridge on the 19th of March 2013. I took another one, just in case:
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