John Legge
@johnlegge.bsky.social
Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Interested in active travel, terrified of climate change
Sea swimmer, runner, cyclist
Tá gaeilge agam
Interested in active travel, terrified of climate change
Sea swimmer, runner, cyclist
Tá gaeilge agam
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Our statement regarding last week's proposal to introduce a mandate on helmets and high-visibility gear for people who cycle 🚴♂️
Such a measure would be folly - for everybody on the road.
Helmet and visibility mandates do not make cycling safer. Transport planning centred on people, however, does 🌍
Such a measure would be folly - for everybody on the road.
Helmet and visibility mandates do not make cycling safer. Transport planning centred on people, however, does 🌍
February 12, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Our statement regarding last week's proposal to introduce a mandate on helmets and high-visibility gear for people who cycle 🚴♂️
Such a measure would be folly - for everybody on the road.
Helmet and visibility mandates do not make cycling safer. Transport planning centred on people, however, does 🌍
Such a measure would be folly - for everybody on the road.
Helmet and visibility mandates do not make cycling safer. Transport planning centred on people, however, does 🌍
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irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them
February 5, 2026 at 9:25 AM
irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them
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Conscious any discussion on transport is polarising but can we agree on:
🚗 Less speeding in cities and towns
👮♀️ A Garda focus on speed enforcement
🛣 Road design and landscaping to reinforce this
🚴♀️ Cycling facilities that protect children (and ourselves)
🏍 Confiscation of illegal souped-up e-bikes?
🚗 Less speeding in cities and towns
👮♀️ A Garda focus on speed enforcement
🛣 Road design and landscaping to reinforce this
🚴♀️ Cycling facilities that protect children (and ourselves)
🏍 Confiscation of illegal souped-up e-bikes?
February 5, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Conscious any discussion on transport is polarising but can we agree on:
🚗 Less speeding in cities and towns
👮♀️ A Garda focus on speed enforcement
🛣 Road design and landscaping to reinforce this
🚴♀️ Cycling facilities that protect children (and ourselves)
🏍 Confiscation of illegal souped-up e-bikes?
🚗 Less speeding in cities and towns
👮♀️ A Garda focus on speed enforcement
🛣 Road design and landscaping to reinforce this
🚴♀️ Cycling facilities that protect children (and ourselves)
🏍 Confiscation of illegal souped-up e-bikes?
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What a wildly stupid idea.
Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes.
That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.
Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes.
That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.
All bicycles included in draft plan for mandatory helmets and high-vis, Department confirms irishcycle.com/2026/02/04/a...
All bicycles included in draft plan for mandatory helmets and high-vis, Department confirms
— Plan was expected to be put to the Cabinet today before it was withdrawn from the meeting of Government Ministers. A reported plan by Ireland’s Government to make the wearing of helme…
irishcycle.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:19 PM
What a wildly stupid idea.
Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes.
That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.
Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes.
That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.
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Fucking gombeens. Love to be seen to do something and it's inevitably the stupid knee-jerk wrong thing rather than the more difficult necessary evidence based thing that will upset some of their gombeen friends
And there we have it folks, having failed to do anything to halt the injury and death toll on our roads the government now plans to criminalise cycling.
This will kill bike share schemes around the country. @bleeperactive.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...
This will kill bike share schemes around the country. @bleeperactive.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...
Helmets and hi-vis clothing to be made mandatory for e-bikes and e-scooter users
Cabinet will sign off on plans to explicitly ban the use of scramblers on roads this morning.
www.thejournal.ie
February 4, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Fucking gombeens. Love to be seen to do something and it's inevitably the stupid knee-jerk wrong thing rather than the more difficult necessary evidence based thing that will upset some of their gombeen friends
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Ok, let’s do this🙄
We’ll start with an explainer covering:
🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from
And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article
🧵
1/25
We’ll start with an explainer covering:
🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from
And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article
🧵
1/25
February 1, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Ok, let’s do this🙄
We’ll start with an explainer covering:
🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from
And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article
🧵
1/25
We’ll start with an explainer covering:
🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from
And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article
🧵
1/25
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did a little experiment with two cars on our street
the 5-year-old is 105cm (3' 5") in bare feet. she could clearly see the steering wheel of the toyota, couldn't even see the windscreen of the yank tank
I asked her where they'd hit if they hit her: "the little one my tummy, the big one my head"
the 5-year-old is 105cm (3' 5") in bare feet. she could clearly see the steering wheel of the toyota, couldn't even see the windscreen of the yank tank
I asked her where they'd hit if they hit her: "the little one my tummy, the big one my head"
January 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
did a little experiment with two cars on our street
the 5-year-old is 105cm (3' 5") in bare feet. she could clearly see the steering wheel of the toyota, couldn't even see the windscreen of the yank tank
I asked her where they'd hit if they hit her: "the little one my tummy, the big one my head"
the 5-year-old is 105cm (3' 5") in bare feet. she could clearly see the steering wheel of the toyota, couldn't even see the windscreen of the yank tank
I asked her where they'd hit if they hit her: "the little one my tummy, the big one my head"
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"When cars come first, everyone loses"
Ireland's dangerous roads: When cars come first, everyone loses
Sadhbh O’ Neill says that the reduction of road deaths in Ireland is being strangled by a lack of political courage.
jrnl.ie
January 26, 2026 at 1:11 PM
"When cars come first, everyone loses"
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It'll be kinda funny if forcing me to wear a helmet is the final straw that breaks me
What makes cycling safer is treating cycling as a real form of transport, making motorists drive safely, and separating cyclists from the big heavy dangerous motorised machines with protected cycle lanes
What makes cycling safer is treating cycling as a real form of transport, making motorists drive safely, and separating cyclists from the big heavy dangerous motorised machines with protected cycle lanes
Cycling without a helmet and high-vis clothing may be made criminal offences in Ireland
-- Law areound cyclists being reviewed with e-scooter proposals for helmets and high-vis. Seán Canney, the Minister of State for road safety, is considering making it illegal to cycle without a helmet and…
-- Law areound cyclists being reviewed with e-scooter proposals for helmets and high-vis. Seán Canney, the Minister of State for road safety, is considering making it illegal to cycle without a helmet and…
Cycling without a helmet and high-vis clothing may be made criminal offences in Ireland
-- Law areound cyclists being reviewed with e-scooter proposals for helmets and high-vis. Seán Canney, the Minister of State for road safety, is considering making it illegal to cycle without a helmet and high-vis on public roads in Ireland. It has already been reported by other media outlets that the Department of Transport was looking at compulsory helmets and high-vis for e-scooter users, but confirmation that the legal review also included bicycle users was outlined in an answer to a parliamentary question in recent days.
irishcycle.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:24 PM
It'll be kinda funny if forcing me to wear a helmet is the final straw that breaks me
What makes cycling safer is treating cycling as a real form of transport, making motorists drive safely, and separating cyclists from the big heavy dangerous motorised machines with protected cycle lanes
What makes cycling safer is treating cycling as a real form of transport, making motorists drive safely, and separating cyclists from the big heavy dangerous motorised machines with protected cycle lanes
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Letter from Dr John Legge responding to the recent discourse on proposals to mandate high-visibility clothing for vulnerable road users.
January 24, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Letter from Dr John Legge responding to the recent discourse on proposals to mandate high-visibility clothing for vulnerable road users.
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Active travel means healthier people, especially healthier kids. We should be doing everything we can to support it.
(Thanks to the D12BikeBus for letting me film them this cold morning!)
(Thanks to the D12BikeBus for letting me film them this cold morning!)
January 16, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Active travel means healthier people, especially healthier kids. We should be doing everything we can to support it.
(Thanks to the D12BikeBus for letting me film them this cold morning!)
(Thanks to the D12BikeBus for letting me film them this cold morning!)
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GRMA to all our loyal supporters for making the journey to London today to support us. 💚🤍🧡
January 14, 2026 at 10:29 PM
GRMA to all our loyal supporters for making the journey to London today to support us. 💚🤍🧡
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This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.
January 9, 2026 at 9:54 PM
This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.
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Poignant letter by Dr Lisa McNamee in the Irish Times this morning.
January 5, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Poignant letter by Dr Lisa McNamee in the Irish Times this morning.
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Some people say the political cultures of the 26 and 6 will be hard to integrate.
The shared enthusiasm for deliberately destroying our waterways to please the intensive farming lobby seems very compatible.
The shared enthusiasm for deliberately destroying our waterways to please the intensive farming lobby seems very compatible.
Yet Sinn Féin, DUP, UUP, SDLP & Alliance all backed the same intensive model and “Going for Growth” strategy, expanding factory farms and slurry, even after their own scientists said stocking levels had to fall to save our rivers and lakes.
This was not an accident. It was a political choice.
2/4
This was not an accident. It was a political choice.
2/4
December 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Some people say the political cultures of the 26 and 6 will be hard to integrate.
The shared enthusiasm for deliberately destroying our waterways to please the intensive farming lobby seems very compatible.
The shared enthusiasm for deliberately destroying our waterways to please the intensive farming lobby seems very compatible.
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Our letter today.
December 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Our letter today.
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The NTA’s 2024 Travel Survey is out.
Car use is rising. Active and public transport are stagnant.
The consequences aren’t future risks — they’re here, for our health and the planet.
And make no mistake: this isn’t policy failure. It’s policy intent, locally and nationally.
Car use is rising. Active and public transport are stagnant.
The consequences aren’t future risks — they’re here, for our health and the planet.
And make no mistake: this isn’t policy failure. It’s policy intent, locally and nationally.
September 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The NTA’s 2024 Travel Survey is out.
Car use is rising. Active and public transport are stagnant.
The consequences aren’t future risks — they’re here, for our health and the planet.
And make no mistake: this isn’t policy failure. It’s policy intent, locally and nationally.
Car use is rising. Active and public transport are stagnant.
The consequences aren’t future risks — they’re here, for our health and the planet.
And make no mistake: this isn’t policy failure. It’s policy intent, locally and nationally.
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Our Road Safety Strategy is broken!
The RSA, Gardaí, and Local Government are pushing a campaign that tells people to “be seen” instead of calling out the real causes of deaths: speeding, red-light running, dangerous/illegal parking, and the near-total lack of enforcement.
Stop blaming victims!
The RSA, Gardaí, and Local Government are pushing a campaign that tells people to “be seen” instead of calling out the real causes of deaths: speeding, red-light running, dangerous/illegal parking, and the near-total lack of enforcement.
Stop blaming victims!
An Garda Síochána continue to place the main responsibility for road safety on vulnerable road users.
People daring to cycle are not the problem in Ireland. Cars and the people driving them are — or more importantly, speed, dangerous driving, and the almost complete lack of enforcement.
People daring to cycle are not the problem in Ireland. Cars and the people driving them are — or more importantly, speed, dangerous driving, and the almost complete lack of enforcement.
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Our Road Safety Strategy is broken!
The RSA, Gardaí, and Local Government are pushing a campaign that tells people to “be seen” instead of calling out the real causes of deaths: speeding, red-light running, dangerous/illegal parking, and the near-total lack of enforcement.
Stop blaming victims!
The RSA, Gardaí, and Local Government are pushing a campaign that tells people to “be seen” instead of calling out the real causes of deaths: speeding, red-light running, dangerous/illegal parking, and the near-total lack of enforcement.
Stop blaming victims!
I contributed to this important article by @gerherbert.bsky.social regarding the safety on our roads. So many of these deaths are preventable tragedies
m.independent.ie/life/red-lig...
m.independent.ie/life/red-lig...
Red lights and red tape: Why Ireland is lagging behind on pedestrian safety
Every day, Ireland invests more than €1m in walking and cycling infrastructure, aiming to make its streets safer for everyone. But rising casualty numbers reveal just how much there is still to do.
m.independent.ie
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I contributed to this important article by @gerherbert.bsky.social regarding the safety on our roads. So many of these deaths are preventable tragedies
m.independent.ie/life/red-lig...
m.independent.ie/life/red-lig...
How much high vis should we wear to counteract drivers using their phones while driving?
👀 Can you see me now?
The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.
#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe
The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.
#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
How much high vis should we wear to counteract drivers using their phones while driving?
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November 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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I am calling on the Irish government to learn the lessons from our peer countries and implement a default 30km/h speed limit in all built up areas, as previously promised. Lives depend on it. #SpeirGorm #Love30
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death, largely by upgrading pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and reducing speed limits to 30kmph, via @semafor.com yle.fi/a/74-20174831
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
yle.fi
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I am calling on the Irish government to learn the lessons from our peer countries and implement a default 30km/h speed limit in all built up areas, as previously promised. Lives depend on it. #SpeirGorm #Love30
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🧵 Some ppl refer to the Irish right-wing party, Fine Gael, as ‘Blueshirts’, as part of their origin is derived from a Fascist movement. Let’s look at how this conservative party was formed, given that the party’s candidate Heather Humphreys is running in the Presidential Election [1] #SpéirGhorm
October 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🧵 Some ppl refer to the Irish right-wing party, Fine Gael, as ‘Blueshirts’, as part of their origin is derived from a Fascist movement. Let’s look at how this conservative party was formed, given that the party’s candidate Heather Humphreys is running in the Presidential Election [1] #SpéirGhorm
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The science is clear: a default 30km/h speed limit in all urban areas will save lives!
Any further delay in implementing this long overdue change is unforgivable.
#Love30
Any further delay in implementing this long overdue change is unforgivable.
#Love30
Campaigners heap pressure on government to rollout 30km speed limit
The Love30 campaign is stepping up the pressure - calling on the government to stop delaying and deliver a default 30km speed limit in towns and cities.
www.fm104.ie
October 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The science is clear: a default 30km/h speed limit in all urban areas will save lives!
Any further delay in implementing this long overdue change is unforgivable.
#Love30
Any further delay in implementing this long overdue change is unforgivable.
#Love30