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Strange how the brick isn't high-vis but motorists see it so clearly?
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Reducing cars is like smoking ban, people won’t want the traffic back, cycling expert tells Irish politicians
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Ireland’s first Dutch-style roundabout opened in Dublin 15
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Oh, look, it’s a suburban area of towns in the Netherlands and there’s still cycle paths and people using them… it doesn’t just happen in city centres… what a shock…
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The Luas was highly successful both in terms of passenger demand which far outstripped predictions and economically how it covers it's operational costs... So, why didn't we keep building tram routes and why are none under construction?
France just keeps building more trams. This is Avignon, opened in 2019. Only 3 miles so far, but (from what I could find) 4,000 daily riders. Typically of French trams, fates are integrated with bus, and there’s a stop at the train station.
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Ireland's longest greenway is open: Over 100km between Maynooth and Athlone
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Walkable neighbourhoods make people happier, says new research from Dublin
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Ireland’s first Dutch-style, walking and cycling-friendly roundabout to be installed in Dublin 15
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This is what safe cycling looks like, to paraphrase what Dutch experts say: You can pick helmets or mass cycling, you cannot pick both:
Senator wants e-scooter legislation to include criminalising cycling without a helmet
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This from the Dutch town of Bilthoven (population: 20,000) which in recent years has made its streets more people-friendly:
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5 points and €300 fine for motorist whose solicitor argued cyclist shouldn’t be on a road at rush hour
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Imagine the outrage if electric bicycles for city use was marketed like this?
New ad for
@VW
. Is it any wonder that reckless driving is endemic and pedestrian fatalities are on the rise? I don’t think so. Why aren’t these ads regulated like tobacco ads were before they were banned?
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Percentage of households without cars in and around Dublin city centre:
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Dublin to get coastal cycle route after large majority support Sandymount trial
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If cyclists don't use a cycle lane, there's a good reason for it
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In cycling cities where there’s safe cycling space, people still cycle in the rain:
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It’s amazing how many motorists think it’s ok to illegally use their phones to photograph or video cyclists doing nothing wrong….
A least this one stopped at the Red light,but only to use her phone 📞
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Will your city’s COVID 19 cycling infrastructure look half as good?
This is one of Nice’s new emergency segregated cycle paths. Wow.
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This design isn’t safe — what ever about motorists turning left having a flashing amber, if motorists in the opposite direction also have a flashing amber they seem unaware I had a green light… this was scary:
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Just to be clear: There's a boom in Paris because they built for it... it's not in their DNA or their culture anymore than it is for us...
Paris wasn’t “always this way.”
It wasn’t even this way in late 2019 when I was there last.
This is new.
This is a choice.
This is leadership.
HT
@CommuteDeParis
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If cyclists don't use a cycle lane, there's a good reason for it
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This is the section of the
#C2CC
Clontarf to City Centre route which is partly opened at Fairview Park:
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Parking on footpaths, cycle lanes or bus lanes should attract 3 penalty points
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Arrest made after car passenger recorded man knocked off bicycle beside Dublin Airport
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Nearly 100k people commute by bicycle daily in Ireland, with large jump in children cycling
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Removal of motor traffic from College Green and Dame Street to start incrementally in 2023, ahead of full redesign
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Motorists: “Cyclists don’t care about the rules”
Meanwhile, motorists in nearly housing estate in Dublin:
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If you're a road safety agency, focus on the main source of danger and stop victim blaming.
Almost nobody is going around not using a footpath for no good reason.
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Woman killed in a collision involving truck driver was "in pursuit of her dreams abroad" -- she worked as a carer and was cycling to a patient at the time of the fatal collision:
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Forget about “bus stop bypasses”, your city needs a filling station bypass… and a intelligent bicycle traffic light signals….
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Consultation shows overwhelming support for reducing car traffic in Dublin City Centre
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IrishCycle wins appeal for release of detailed BusConnects drawings
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When restrictions on SUVs are suggested, there's a cohort who always asks: How do you even define an SUV.
They aren't going to be happy with Paris's definition: Vehicles with combustion or hybrid engines weighing more than 1.6 tonnes and electric vehicles of more than 2 tonnes.
Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution. "If Paris votes yes on parking tariffs, the cost of on-street parking for an SUV or 4x4 car will rise to €18 (£15) an hour in the centre of Paris."
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DLRCC wins European award for cycling infrastructure roll-out
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We could have cycle paths like these along main roads, inside hedgerows, across Ireland:
On the small Danish island of Fanø, the island's spine road has a parallel cycle track which is safe and easy for anyone who wants to cycle.
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Irish cities could quickly build cycle paths as Paris has -- it built 60 cycle route projects over the summer... it needs public and political support...
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Parking in cycle lanes, on footpaths or in bus lanes should be considered as ‘parking a vehicle in a dangerous position’ and receive three penalty points as well as a fine, the Joint Committee on Justice has said
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Kissing gates: Can you imagine the uproar if car drivers had to navigate similar obstacles?
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Parking in cycle lanes, on footpaths or in bus lanes should be considered as ‘parking a vehicle in a dangerous position’ and receive three penalty points as well as a fine, the Joint Committee on Justice has said:
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Fine for motorists parking on footpaths, cycle tracks, bus lanes to double to €80
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Walkable neighbourhoods make people happier, says new research from Dublin
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Again: visibility is often confused with motorists not looking, an example from Facebook:
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Rich TikTokers making the case for traffic fines based on income:
We need to switch parking fines in the UK to a % of people's income.
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Dublin councillors vote to retain car-free Capel Street
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LOOK AT THE NETHERLANDS, THEY ARE JUST OVER THERE. LESS THAN 1,000KM AWAY. THEY HAVE SPENT DECADES MASTERING THE ART OF CYCLE ROUTE AND STREET DESIGN. NO NEED TO REINVENT THE WHEEL AND MESS IT ALL UP THIS TIME.
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Programme for government could bring Ireland to Dutch level of cycling funding
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Campaigners ‘liberate’ Dublin’s South William Street from cars for the day under
#StreetsAreForPeople
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New 3,500km National Cycle Network linking towns and cities made public for feedback
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A white front and red rear light on a bicycle is a legal requirement after sunset and sensible before then.
That applies to the cycling ninjas and to people who wrongly think high-vis is a substitute.
If cycling in riskier places, I'd recommend one flashing and one solid.
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Remind me again why Dublin didn't continue building two-way cycle paths after the success of the Grand Canal Cycleway.
London and Paris ploughed ahead with two-way routes as central parts of their networks.
Two-way paths on Pearse St etc could be built in a week.
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This really shouldn't have to be said regardless of legality, but:
Wheelchair users are legally allowed to cycle lanes and any cyclist out there shouting at them really needs to check themself, to say the least
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Heading back to Utrecht from De Bilt beside a very large road — the key here is the green buffer space:
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Dún Laoghaire Living Streets approved by a clear majority of councillors
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What do people think? Better or worse looking than the cars they replace?
gonna be honest I think these are a municipal design instant classic and look a lot better than most of the cars they replace
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Just some of the bicycle parking at Utrecht Vaartsche Rijn, an edge-of-city-centre tram and train station in Utrecht:
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A video of this was shared with us — it happened in Castleknock today. Please get in touch if you’re the person on the bicycle and need the video:
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"You won't tell me what roads I cannot drive on"
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Car-free Capel Street marked as a success after its first year
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For those in the back:
The blue is legally defined as the city centre.
The yellow (my rough outline) will still allow cars in and out, but it will be harder to drive through.
The red lines on the quays are around about where the bus gates will be.
This isn't a car ban.
Dublin City Council is not banning cars from the city centre, far from it.
The plan is to give priority to walking, cycling buses and trams by stopping through traffic just in a part of the core city centre while still allowing car access.
This is totally misleading journalism:
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Dublin Bus called on to act to avoid “appalling” overtaking of cyclists
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Irish authorities directed to stop using restrictive barriers on walking and cycling routes
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Disbelief as Minister Ryan announces another electric car grants expansion without supports for ebikes or cargo bikes
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The little known bicycle parking in Connelly Station beside the Enterprise platform:
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Dutch journalist
@tverka
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Gardai tried to deter cyclists from reporting 51% of close passing by motorists - survey
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Compare and contrast:
➡️ Complicated urban greenway, cost in headline and first paragraph.
➡️ Bypass: Cost mentioned only in the fifth paragraph.
This isn’t a one off for The Irish Times and they are smart enough to know it comes with predictable reactions from readers.
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Re the Dutch Cycling Study Tours planned for May and June… why Utrecht? One of the reasons is it’s high use of buses and how it deals with cycling and buses:
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Irish councils can now roll out zebra crossings without expensive beacons
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‘Full pedestrianisation’ of Capel Street expected after public demand
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Royal Canal Greenway link between North Strand Road and the Docklands in use this morning:
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These are a bad idea:
New ramps installed along Chesterfield avenue cycle lanes at points where passengers are getting on and off buses.
@IrishCycle
@cyclistie
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Anybody who defends ‘kissing gates’ or other restrictive barriers or narrow cycle paths etc — this is just one example of the kind of cycling that you are limiting:
This is my friend Nick riding with his disabled son and daughters. Cycling has brought their family together in extraordinary ways and given their son new freedoms and sensory experiences. It connects them to each other and the community around them. This is the power of
#cycling
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A big thanks to the National Transport Authority's Active Travel team for making high-grade red asphalt a requirement in the Cycle Design Manual, and councils for starting to use it.
Red asphalt might sometimes look like the old red surface treatment but it's nothing like it.
Beautiful smooth red asphalt on Dodder Road Lower. Best cycling surface I’ve experienced in Ireland. So much better than the horrible bumpy brown sandpaper (sorry CMR). Sound on to enjoy the lovely quiet gliding.
@IrishCycle
@dublincycling
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Fantastic:
1. Council install 'bicycle street' (cyclists have priority but car access allowed)
2. A resident, who doesn't like it, brings the council to court on a technicality, he says it's too narrow.
3. The judge agrees with him.
4. The council removes car parking to comply🤣
Hannover installs a cycle road.
Person sues council to remove it arguing road is not wide enough.
Judge agrees and removes parking to make it wide enough.
😍
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This is an unreal level of attempted gaslighting — knocking on a window turns into “trying to vandalise his window”, and then “try to vandalise his car”. A bully who knew he was in the wrong but cannot move on:
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Another day and one of the pedestrian gates to the business park where
@RSAIreland
HQ is located in Ballina is still locked shut.
But a new discovery: the second gate is welded shut!
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These barriers kill the attractiveness, capacity and potential of the Grand Canal Greenway in Dublin.
They have been used as places to mug people and haven’t solved other issues but the authorities maintain they are doing more good than harm:
These barriers on the Grand Canal Way and in Corkagh Park are a royal pain in the arse!
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Taxing cycling is just a silly idea and it should be derided, not debated
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Oh, look -- from
#ieinnl
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IMAGES: 25 reasons why cyclists don't use cycle lanes
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Road Safety Authority "no longer fit for purpose" says 27 groups focused on road safety
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With pedestrian deaths rising, is now the right time to discuss SUVs?
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Ah, here
@AmazonUK
@AmazonHelp
-- driving along a parking-protected cycle lane (inside the cars) and onto historic footpath paving stone which is over Georgian cellars on Fitzwilliam Street.
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