`It's a battle of who's the most stubborn. Car users don't really see cyclists," Dave Egan, an IT manager who cycles from Phibsborough in north Dublin to work on the south side of the city, remarks. "We've got the same rights but it's all push and shove. If there's a valid cycle lane they should respect our space."
He adds: "You see a lot of cars parked along cycle ways and that's a bit annoying because you have to pull out. You often hear drivers complaining about that but sometimes we have no choice."
Linda O'Nolan, who cycles from Milltown to her workplace in Temple Bar, also complains about motorists parking in cycle lanes, especially on Saturdays. Cycling has become a much more pleasant experience since regulations governing cycle lanes were introduced almost two years ago, she states.
"But there are still a lot of angry motorists out there. You get beeping and that. Motorists don't seem to understand you're going to change lanes like any other vehicle."
Diarmuid Murphy, from Monkstown, who studies and works in town, disagrees with the idea of cars being allowed to cross into cycle paths with broken white lines.
"What's the point of having cycle lanes if cars can enter them? It seems stupid to say that cyclists should be treated with due care and attention in those lanes - it suggests that drivers don't need to treat cyclists like that when they're out on the road."
Susan Gallagher, a student from Templeogue, says the provision of cycle lanes on her journey to Trinity College is inadequate. "There's one cycle lane in Templeogue for a couple of hundred metres and then one along the canal. I'd like if there were more because you do feel vulnerable."
On South Great Georges Street, Mark O'Brien, a cycle courier, says he has been involved in accidents due to the carelessness of motorists. "It's always been the fault of motorists not looking when coming out of small laneways. I've only had small knocks but it's not good.
"I have as much right to be on the road as a car but we don't have that right, according to motorists."
He would like to see more cycle lanes around Dublin but thinks that motorists would abuse them. "You'd still have cars breaking into them."
A cycling postman, John Dwyer, believes that more cycle lanes would increase Dublin's traffic problems. Indicating the level of traffic on Parkgate Street one morning this week, he comments: "There's no way the traffic should be like that. I don't think cycle lanes are a good idea because they restrict the traffic and you've got bus lanes doing that already."
A bus driver, Gerry Donnelly, said cyclists often do not use the lanes provided for them. "Out along the Stillorgan dual carriageway they're always cycling in the bus lanes. They don't know what a red light means and they never check behind them. They're a danger to themselves." A taxi-driver, John Doyle, says cyclists put other road users at risk. "They're dangerous because they break every light, they change lanes, they cycle in and out of the traffic. They are going to get themselves killed. You have to watch them, they have the same mentality as pedestrians."
Francis Lacey, a motorcycle courier resting between assignments on Dame Street, supports other two-wheeled road users: "I find them all right but some motorists treat them like dirt."