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Is there anything to be said for another blessing of the roads? For safer roads, Road Safety Authority needs to be disbanded
Comment & Analysis: To be clear: The Road Safety Authority isn't seeking divine protection of our roads. But the approach it takes of pleading with drivers to obey the law,…
Comment & Analysis: To be clear: The Road Safety Authority isn't seeking divine protection of our roads. But the approach it takes of pleading with drivers to obey the law,…
Is there anything to be said for another blessing of the roads? For safer roads, Road Safety Authority needs to be disbanded
Comment & Analysis: To be clear: The Road Safety Authority isn't seeking divine protection of our roads. But the approach it takes of pleading with drivers to obey the law, its apparent inability to accept modern road safety research, and its focus on ineffective solutions are issues that too many people still overlook. But, worse of all, are the glaring errors it keeps making in its reports and other output, which make me feel it's just a few steps removed from county councillors who want roads blessed as if that's going to have any impact on collisions.
irishcycle.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Is there anything to be said for another blessing of the roads? For safer roads, Road Safety Authority needs to be disbanded
Comment & Analysis: To be clear: The Road Safety Authority isn't seeking divine protection of our roads. But the approach it takes of pleading with drivers to obey the law,…
Comment & Analysis: To be clear: The Road Safety Authority isn't seeking divine protection of our roads. But the approach it takes of pleading with drivers to obey the law,…
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If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch.
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate
At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem
www.irishtimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch.
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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A very typical Dutch one-stage crossing. In the UK cyclists often get two or more crossing stages at busy roads. If drivers aren’t expected to stop halfway, why should bikes or pedestrians? Two-stage crossings exist to keep cars moving, not people safe.
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
A very typical Dutch one-stage crossing. In the UK cyclists often get two or more crossing stages at busy roads. If drivers aren’t expected to stop halfway, why should bikes or pedestrians? Two-stage crossings exist to keep cars moving, not people safe.
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Please stop making me say this: 1.5 metres isn’t wide enough for cycle tracks
Comment & Analysis: The Dunboyne to Clonee Active Travel Link -- the consultation on which ends today -- is a promising scheme; a few details, however, scream: "Why?" For example, "Why?" is all I can think of when I see…
Comment & Analysis: The Dunboyne to Clonee Active Travel Link -- the consultation on which ends today -- is a promising scheme; a few details, however, scream: "Why?" For example, "Why?" is all I can think of when I see…
Please stop making me say this: 1.5 metres isn’t wide enough for cycle tracks
Comment & Analysis: The Dunboyne to Clonee Active Travel Link -- the consultation on which ends today -- is a promising scheme; a few details, however, scream: "Why?" For example, "Why?" is all I can think of when I see the narrow width of the cycle tracks planned on Main Street in Clonee, Co Meath. 1.5 metres isn't wide enough for cycle tracks when other options are available.
irishcycle.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Please stop making me say this: 1.5 metres isn’t wide enough for cycle tracks
Comment & Analysis: The Dunboyne to Clonee Active Travel Link -- the consultation on which ends today -- is a promising scheme; a few details, however, scream: "Why?" For example, "Why?" is all I can think of when I see…
Comment & Analysis: The Dunboyne to Clonee Active Travel Link -- the consultation on which ends today -- is a promising scheme; a few details, however, scream: "Why?" For example, "Why?" is all I can think of when I see…
DLR Light up your bike 🚲💡🔦
Where: Monkstown road, Temple hill junction
When: Dec 3rd 5:15pm
The Dublin Cycling Campaign will be handing out some bike lights and accessories on Wednesday evening. Anyone passing do say hello 👋
Where: Monkstown road, Temple hill junction
When: Dec 3rd 5:15pm
The Dublin Cycling Campaign will be handing out some bike lights and accessories on Wednesday evening. Anyone passing do say hello 👋
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
DLR Light up your bike 🚲💡🔦
Where: Monkstown road, Temple hill junction
When: Dec 3rd 5:15pm
The Dublin Cycling Campaign will be handing out some bike lights and accessories on Wednesday evening. Anyone passing do say hello 👋
Where: Monkstown road, Temple hill junction
When: Dec 3rd 5:15pm
The Dublin Cycling Campaign will be handing out some bike lights and accessories on Wednesday evening. Anyone passing do say hello 👋
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In yet another blow for opponents of active travel schemes who claim - almost always without any evidence - that they impede blue light services, a new report finds the majority of Limerick’s protected cycle lanes do not impede ambulances, and in fact some improve access.
road.cc/content/news...
road.cc/content/news...
Majority of new cycle lane projects “maintained or enhanced” ambulance accessibility in city, new report from Irish council finds
The designs “effectively facilitated the movement of emergency vehicles by ensuring adequate carriageway widths and junction radii” while also enhancing pedestrian and cyclist safety, Limerick City Co...
road.cc
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
In yet another blow for opponents of active travel schemes who claim - almost always without any evidence - that they impede blue light services, a new report finds the majority of Limerick’s protected cycle lanes do not impede ambulances, and in fact some improve access.
road.cc/content/news...
road.cc/content/news...
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This is the Neude in Utrecht. It spent decades in the late 20th century as a car park before being returned to the people and becoming a vibrant public square once again. Your city could do this too - it’s a political choice.
November 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is the Neude in Utrecht. It spent decades in the late 20th century as a car park before being returned to the people and becoming a vibrant public square once again. Your city could do this too - it’s a political choice.
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Home Alone could've had a very different ending if it was made more recently.
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Home Alone could've had a very different ending if it was made more recently.
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The majority of an Irish city’s new protected cycle lane schemes do not impede ambulance drivers and have, in some cases, enhanced accessibility for emergency services, a new report has found
Majority of new cycle lane projects “maintained or enhanced” ambulance accessibility in city, new report from Irish council finds
The designs “effectively facilitated the movement of emergency vehicles by ensuring adequate carriageway widths and junction radii” while also enhancing pedestrian and cyclist safety, Limerick City Co...
road.cc
November 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The majority of an Irish city’s new protected cycle lane schemes do not impede ambulance drivers and have, in some cases, enhanced accessibility for emergency services, a new report has found
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We're going to read more and more about regulating dangerous "e-bikes," which are actually electric motorcycles. Why not tell your concerns to the 40,000+ US families each year mourning their dead loved ones, whose lives were taken by the terribly lethal cars and trucks we've decided are essential.
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
We're going to read more and more about regulating dangerous "e-bikes," which are actually electric motorcycles. Why not tell your concerns to the 40,000+ US families each year mourning their dead loved ones, whose lives were taken by the terribly lethal cars and trucks we've decided are essential.
Please support the Cabinteely Greenway there's currently close to Zero safe infrastructure in Cabinteely. h7.cl/1frYV
Active Travel: Cabinteely Greenway Scheme
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
- Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
h7.cl
December 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Please support the Cabinteely Greenway there's currently close to Zero safe infrastructure in Cabinteely. h7.cl/1frYV
Would be great to see this left as is and see what happens.
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Would be great to see this left as is and see what happens.
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Australia has recognised a fundamental truth: that *everything* depends on healthy wild ecosystems.
Time for the rest of the world to follow suit, and then ACT on it.
search.app/phsEf
Time for the rest of the world to follow suit, and then ACT on it.
search.app/phsEf
Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing | Ken Henry
In what are dangerous times for democracies around the world, parliament’s overhaul of nature laws in the EPBC Act shows ambitious reform remains possible
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November 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Australia has recognised a fundamental truth: that *everything* depends on healthy wild ecosystems.
Time for the rest of the world to follow suit, and then ACT on it.
search.app/phsEf
Time for the rest of the world to follow suit, and then ACT on it.
search.app/phsEf
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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 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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.
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Have you lived somewhere with no secure, sheltered bike parking?
Lack of decent parking at home is a big barrier.
I worked with the Belarmine RA and the council to run a pilot to see could we support residents in a practical way with advice and funding.
#stepaside #belarmine #cycling #bikelife
Lack of decent parking at home is a big barrier.
I worked with the Belarmine RA and the council to run a pilot to see could we support residents in a practical way with advice and funding.
#stepaside #belarmine #cycling #bikelife
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Have you lived somewhere with no secure, sheltered bike parking?
Lack of decent parking at home is a big barrier.
I worked with the Belarmine RA and the council to run a pilot to see could we support residents in a practical way with advice and funding.
#stepaside #belarmine #cycling #bikelife
Lack of decent parking at home is a big barrier.
I worked with the Belarmine RA and the council to run a pilot to see could we support residents in a practical way with advice and funding.
#stepaside #belarmine #cycling #bikelife
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Shovel-ready Luas and Dart projects delayed “to free up funding for more roads”
The Government is delaying shovel-ready public transport projects such as Dart+ South West and Luas Finglas in order "to free up funding for more roads", the Green Party's transport spokesperson, Cllr Feljin Jose, has…
The Government is delaying shovel-ready public transport projects such as Dart+ South West and Luas Finglas in order "to free up funding for more roads", the Green Party's transport spokesperson, Cllr Feljin Jose, has…
Shovel-ready Luas and Dart projects delayed “to free up funding for more roads”
The Government is delaying shovel-ready public transport projects such as Dart+ South West and Luas Finglas in order "to free up funding for more roads", the Green Party's transport spokesperson, Cllr Feljin Jose, has claimed. He said that this is a "disaster" that large new areas of housing in Dublin -- including a development of nearly 900 homes approved in Adamstown today and the major housing project at Poolbeg -- were being left without the promised transport links, forcing more people into cars on the capital's congested roads.
irishcycle.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Shovel-ready Luas and Dart projects delayed “to free up funding for more roads”
The Government is delaying shovel-ready public transport projects such as Dart+ South West and Luas Finglas in order "to free up funding for more roads", the Green Party's transport spokesperson, Cllr Feljin Jose, has…
The Government is delaying shovel-ready public transport projects such as Dart+ South West and Luas Finglas in order "to free up funding for more roads", the Green Party's transport spokesperson, Cllr Feljin Jose, has…
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Ah here.
Active Travel getting €360m every year while road spend goes up from €1,600m to €2,700m.
We've seen time and again how building active travel infrastructure increases modal shift, boosting health, reducing congestion and saving money.
Serious leadership would have understood that.
Active Travel getting €360m every year while road spend goes up from €1,600m to €2,700m.
We've seen time and again how building active travel infrastructure increases modal shift, boosting health, reducing congestion and saving money.
Serious leadership would have understood that.
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Ah here.
Active Travel getting €360m every year while road spend goes up from €1,600m to €2,700m.
We've seen time and again how building active travel infrastructure increases modal shift, boosting health, reducing congestion and saving money.
Serious leadership would have understood that.
Active Travel getting €360m every year while road spend goes up from €1,600m to €2,700m.
We've seen time and again how building active travel infrastructure increases modal shift, boosting health, reducing congestion and saving money.
Serious leadership would have understood that.
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Here’s my offer to retailers:
I’ll pay for the bike racks in front of your store. In return, I’ll receive €1/$1 from you for every customer with a bike as a return on my investment in your store.
I’ll pay for the bike racks in front of your store. In return, I’ll receive €1/$1 from you for every customer with a bike as a return on my investment in your store.
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Here’s my offer to retailers:
I’ll pay for the bike racks in front of your store. In return, I’ll receive €1/$1 from you for every customer with a bike as a return on my investment in your store.
I’ll pay for the bike racks in front of your store. In return, I’ll receive €1/$1 from you for every customer with a bike as a return on my investment in your store.
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An Amoc shutdown later this century could see millions of Irish people become #climate migrants; this is something our politicians talking tough on cracking down on migration to Ireland should keep in mind, as I discuss in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: A big freeze could turn the Irish into climate refugees
We should reflect on 'get-tough' proposals on immigration: If the Amoc currents that moderate Ireland’s climate fail, temperatures will plunge, making grass-based agriculture impossible
www.irishexaminer.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
An Amoc shutdown later this century could see millions of Irish people become #climate migrants; this is something our politicians talking tough on cracking down on migration to Ireland should keep in mind, as I discuss in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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My 4th year students present projects on decarbonisation of transport at 10am. They have lived experience in how far we have to come: I got a 7:20am email from a student whose 6:53am bus didn't arrive, meaning they won't make it for 10am. Happy World Sustainable Transport Day.
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
My 4th year students present projects on decarbonisation of transport at 10am. They have lived experience in how far we have to come: I got a 7:20am email from a student whose 6:53am bus didn't arrive, meaning they won't make it for 10am. Happy World Sustainable Transport Day.
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In Wicklow town this sunny morning for the Youth #Climate Conference, ‘Our Climate, Our Future’.
Looking forward to discussing the ideas in THE LIE OF THE LAND.
Looking forward to discussing the ideas in THE LIE OF THE LAND.
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
In Wicklow town this sunny morning for the Youth #Climate Conference, ‘Our Climate, Our Future’.
Looking forward to discussing the ideas in THE LIE OF THE LAND.
Looking forward to discussing the ideas in THE LIE OF THE LAND.
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Judicial review papers against MetroLink filed by residents of Dartmouth Square irishcycle.com/2025/11/25/j...
Judicial review papers against MetroLink filed by residents of Dartmouth Square
Residents of the Dartmouth Square area in Ranelagh have lodged judicial review proceedings against An Coimisiún Pleanála’s approval of the MetroLink Railway Order. The application for a judic…
irishcycle.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Judicial review papers against MetroLink filed by residents of Dartmouth Square irishcycle.com/2025/11/25/j...
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"My son cycles from Louisa Bridge to Maynooth University (in his first year) and back each day and honestly I don’t know how we would have managed it without this upgrade. Many congratulations to all concerned" -- a comment from a reader made under this article: irishcycle.com/2025/11/21/b...
Before and after images show how Royal Canal Greenway between Maynooth and Leixlip boosts accessibility between towns along waterway
Waterways Ireland has posted before-and-after images of the upgrade of the Royal Canal path between Maynooth and Leixlip, making the route more accessible for bicycles, wheelchairs, mobility device…
irishcycle.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"My son cycles from Louisa Bridge to Maynooth University (in his first year) and back each day and honestly I don’t know how we would have managed it without this upgrade. Many congratulations to all concerned" -- a comment from a reader made under this article: irishcycle.com/2025/11/21/b...
The Cathaoirleach has been presented with a bike keep an eye out for him. www.dublincycling.com/cycling/dlr-...
DLR Cathaoirleach Bike Presentation 2025
DLR Cathaoirleach Cllr Jim Gildea was presented with his official bicycle by the Dublin Cycling Campaign on Saturday November 15th
www.dublincycling.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The Cathaoirleach has been presented with a bike keep an eye out for him. www.dublincycling.com/cycling/dlr-...
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This bus-and-cycle expressway runs directly from Nijmegen station to the university and hospital in the south of the city. People on bikes and buses get there fast without delays, while motor traffic has to take the longer route.
Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.
Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This bus-and-cycle expressway runs directly from Nijmegen station to the university and hospital in the south of the city. People on bikes and buses get there fast without delays, while motor traffic has to take the longer route.
Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.
Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.