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  • #402
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    The thought occurred to me this morning: how might the figures (and their significance) be different if the afternoon/evening school-home commute was systematically included in the above?

    On average you would expect the frequency of rain per trip to be the same, unless there is some meteorological reason for rainfall to be more prevalent later in the day. However, given the nature of Galway's weather, while the outward morning trip could be dry the afternoon/evening homeward trip could be wet. And vice versa of course. During very wet weather both outward and return trips could be rained on.

    The effect of this would presumably be to increase the number of days when the school trip is rained on either on the way there or on the way home. Nevertheless I still contend that such commuting days would still be in a minority. Based on the above figures, even if there was a doubling in the absolute number of school-days "during which rain was a problem", which I believe would be unlikely, the proportion of such 'problematic' days would still be no more than 25% (12 x 2).

    Another thought occurs: numerous trips, for example to more than one school or to after-school activities, would also increase exposure to the possibility of rain falling during any one trip. However, this brings us back to the issue of preparing properly for rain. In my view we need to get over the notion that Galway's rain is so bad that we cannot avoid it or adapt to it.

    On that note, here's a pic of a well-prepared commuter I spotted on 8th May:

    308393.jpg


  • #403
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Fair play Iwannahurl on your above analysis. It takes a bit of commitment but once you start daily cycling you start to see it's a minority of trips that it rains.
    And sure if it didn't rain we wouldn't appreciate the sunshine.

    Trip: work commute 22km round trip
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: sunny
    Comment: nice day today. Been off work for last two weeks so didn't commute.

    Wet: 7/82= 9%
    Nice: 75/82= 91%
    Too Dangerous: 0/82= 0%


  • #404
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Trip: work commute 22km round trip
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: sunny
    Comment: nice day today.

    Wet: 7/84= 8%
    Nice: 77/84= 92%
    Too Dangerous: 0/84= 0%


  • #405
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Trip: work commute 22km round trip
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: sunny
    Comment: nice day today.

    Wet: 7/86= 8%
    Nice: 79/86= 92%
    Too Dangerous: 0/86= 0%


  • #406
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Trip: work commute 22km round trip Tues, Wed, & Fri.
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: mixed few days
    Comment: some wet commutes, some nice dry days too.

    Wet: 9/92= 8%
    Nice: 83/92= 92%
    Too Dangerous: 0/92= 0%


  • #407
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Trip: work commute 22km round trip
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: Wet.
    Comment: Managed to avoid rain this morning but still got some splash back from road as there was a fair bit of rain overnight. Drenched on way home and also had forget my rear mudguard today just for good measure.

    Wet: 10/94= 11%
    Nice: 84/94= 89%
    Too Dangerous: 0/94= 0%


  • #408
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Trip: work commute 22km round trip Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri.
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: lovely few days, dry
    Comment: So I've recorded 51 days cycle commuting(102 trips) odometer reads 1,158kms, since 17Feb. Will keep going to clock 100 days as Iwannahurl did and see % of wet days. Running @ 10% wet commutes so far
    Wet: 10/102= 10%
    Nice: 92/102= 90%
    Deadly: 0/102= 0%


  • #409
    what_traffic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,007 ✭✭✭what_traffic


    13-06-2014
    Trip    : Work Commutte @ 14h00
    Distance: 11 km.
    Mode: Cycle.
    Weather: No Wind, overcast and warm
    Comment: Pleasant cycle. Traffic was busy in city centre

    Trip: Work Commutte @ 23h00
    Distance: 11 km.
    Mode: Cycle.
    Weather: No wind and warm.
    Comment: Traffic is non existent at this hour. Traffic lights at Western Motors/Parkmore are unresponsive for cyclists.


  • #410
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    I just found this by chance: http://www.smartertravelworkplaces.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Cycle_Poster.pdf
    If you cycled to work in Dublin, you’d have only an 11% chance of rain falling on you in the morning or evening. The chances of getting wet twice in the one day are only 1%.


  • #411
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    If you cycled to work in Dublin, you’d have only an 11% chance of rain falling on you in the morning or evening. The chances of getting wet twice in the one day are only 1%.

    Some rough math

    52 weeks minus 4 weeks of holidays = 48 weeks
    5 day week = 240 days

    Assuming you can shower and change at home so its not a big deal, I'll only look at the impact when someone gets wet on the way to work, so 11% / 2 = 5.5%

    240 * 5.5% = 13.2 days when you are going to be cycling to work in the rain in Dublin

    Nearly 3 (working) weeks of cycling in the rain

    Anyone any idea of how much wetter Galway is compared to Dublin? Assuming 30% wetter (pure guess) the figure goes to 22.3 days of cycling to work in the rain.

    If you include cycling on the way home also, its 44.6 days of cycling in the rain either on the way to or from work.

    The above was done purely out of curiosity and the figures for Galway are open to change as I assumed the difference between the 2 cities


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  • #412
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Anyone any idea of how much wetter Galway is compared to Dublin? Assuming 30% wetter (pure guess) the figure goes to 22.3 days of cycling to work in the rain.


    I don't know what the direct comparison would be, but in my experience (as described in this thread) only 12% of morning commutes were problematic in terms of rain.

    In fact the rainfall during the morning commute was non-problematic to the extent that Senior Infant was able to do the 3 km school run by bike 80% of the time between November and May.


  • #413
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Trip: my stats for last week work commute 22km round trip Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri.
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: perfect
    Comment: Excellent week for commuting, warm, dry, no wind
    Wet: 10/112= 9%
    Nice: 102/112= 91%
    Deadly: 0/112= 0%


  • #414
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Anyone any idea of how much wetter Galway is compared to Dublin? Assuming 30% wetter (pure guess) the figure goes to 22.3 days of cycling to work in the rain.

    I'm currently running @ 9% wet commutes. I didn't differentiate between morning and evening commutes. The stats above show Dublin @ 11%. I think the 10% mark would be about right in Irish weather long term, which would be 1 trip a week if you commute 5 days back & forth.


  • #415
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Trip: my stats for this week work commute 22km round trip Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri.
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: fair
    Comment: nice summer weather, 2 wet commutes during the week though.
    Wet: 12/122= 10%
    Nice: 110/122= 90%
    Too Dangerous: 0/122= 0%


  • #416
    what_traffic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,007 ✭✭✭what_traffic


    01-07-2014
    Trip    : Work Commutte @ 09h00
    Distance: 11 km.
    Mode: Cycle.
    Weather: Light westerly Wind, overcast and warm
    Comment: Pleasant cycle. Traffic was light for the whole trip.

    First day using a pannier bag (that can also convert to a backpack.)
    http://www.bikebagshop.com/vaude-cycle-28-backpack-rear-pannier-p-3144.html

    Need to adjust for the side weight on the carrier - but more pleasant than using a backpack in this warm weather which has been my main mode for transporting a change of clothes for 8 years now. Much easier to look behind one as well when not wearing a backpack.


  • #417
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Trip: my stats for this week work commute 22km round trip Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri.
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: OK
    Comment: few wet commutes during the week, Mon Tues were nice other days hit and miss.
    Watch your bikes, heard of a theft from front of a house in rahoon during the week.
    Wet: 15/132= 11%
    Nice: 117/132= 89%
    Too Dangerous: 0/132= 0%


  • #418
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Trip: my stats for this week work commute 22km round trip Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri.
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: nice
    Comment: nice week for it, only one commute which was slightly wet.
    Didn't cycle Mon, went out for my first 50 km 'leisure' cycle last Sun and was wrecked Mon morning.
    Wet: 16/140= 11%
    Nice: 124/140= 89%
    Too Dangerous: 0/140= 0%


  • #419
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Trip: my stats for last week work commute 22km round trip Thurs, Fri.
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: OK
    Comment: got wet on one commute, drove a few days this week had to run errands.
    Wet: 17/144= 11%
    Nice: 127/144= 89%
    Too Dangerous: 0/144= 0%


  • #420
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Trip: my stats for this week work commute 22km round trip Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri.
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: humid
    Comment: warm summer weather, humid and heavy commutes during the week.
    Wet: 12/132= 9%
    Nice: 120/132= 91%
    Too Dangerous: 0/132= 0%


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  • #421
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Trip: my stats for past few weeks at work commute 22km round trip Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri.
    Mode: cycle.
    Weather: lovely
    Comment: haven't updated in a few weeks. been a great spell of weather for cycling.
    Wet: 15/184= 8%
    Nice: 169/184= 92%
    Too Dangerous: 0/184= 0%


  • #422
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    01 September 2014 - 12 October 2014, it has been mainly dry and sunny. I can count on one hand the amount of times my bicycle got wet during those six weeks (thrice).


  • #423
    cgcsb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    I wonder why the brutal winters of Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Vienna, Munich etc. don't put people off walking/cycling


  • #424
    galwaycyclist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭galwaycyclist


    Horrible looking morning. However on the way to work it actually stayed dry - (e.g. not raining) between 7:50 and 8:50.

    The heavens opened after that but you could have walked 4-5k without getting wet.


  • #425
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    I had the opposite experience, unfortunately.

    We were caught in heavy rain about 1 km from school, and got well soaked. Had we managed to leave home 5 minutes earlier we would have missed it.

    Note to self: buy a full set of waterproofs for 7-year-old, and use it even when the rain seems light.


  • #426
    galwaycyclist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭galwaycyclist


    galwaycyclist wrote: »
    Horrible looking morning. However on the way to work it actually stayed dry - (e.g. not raining) between 7:50 and 8:50.

    The heavens opened after that but you could have walked 4-5k without getting wet.

    Better today again a horrible looking morning and leaving the house I had all the wet gear on but between 7:50 and 9:00 there was nothing. Had 4-5 minute sprinkle at 9 but didn't last and wasn't heavy. Blustery all right.


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  • #427
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    No problems during school drop-off. Sheltered under a tree on the way home.


  • #428
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    Used the car this morning for a specific event. Very wet and windy, with spot flooding in lots of areas.

    Outward leg at around 07:45, return journey with several detours around 08:20.

    Very little traffic.

    Why? Mid-term break of course.

    On one key route traffic was a fraction of what it would have been if the schools were open, and the junctions on some sections were entirely free-flowing.

    A Garda I spoke to a few weeks ago insisted that most people clogging up the roads with their cars on the morning school run are heading to work afterwards.

    Are they all on holidays this week then?


  • #429
    Crumbs868
    Closed Accounts Posts: 438 ✭✭Crumbs868


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Used the car this morning for a specific event. Very wet and windy, with spot flooding in lots of areas.

    Outward leg at around 07:45, return journey with several detours around 08:20.

    Very little traffic.

    Why? Mid-term break of course.

    On one key route traffic was a fraction of what it would have been if the schools were open, and the junctions on some sections were entirely free-flowing.

    A Garda I spoke to a few weeks ago insisted that most people clogging up the roads with their cars on the morning school run are heading to work afterwards.

    Are they all on holidays this week then?

    A lot of parents take the week off due to childcare issues.

    Those of like myself who are fortunate enough to have a relative look after the small ones allow us go to work that bit earlier and go direct to work avoiding the bottlenecks


  • #430
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    Met Eireann's weather station in Athenry reported its wettest March in 21 years, recording 129.9 mm of precipitation, amounting to 137% of Long Term Average rainfall.

    Despite this, there was no rainfall at all on 64% of weekday mornings between 08:00 and 09:00, while 73% of the afternoons on weekdays were dry between 14:00 and 15:00. This meant that it should have been possible to do a school run, say, of less than one hour duration without encountering any rain at all on average 68% of the time.

    There was light rain on just 32% of weekdays, and a 7% occurrence of intermediate levels of rainfall. There was no heavy rain on any day (Met Eireann definitions).

    Only four days in the month (13%) had rainfall at both times, ie 8-9am and 2-3pm. Since these are hourly rainfall amounts, the frequency of rain in 15-minute periods would be even lower, which again supports the conclusion that very few short commutes, eg 4 km or less for cycling and 2 km or less for walking, are actually rained on.

    IMO this is yet more evidence that claims about rainfall levels making walking and cycling unfeasible over 4 km or less are hugely exaggerated.

    Feel free to rip the data to shreds, if you can. :)


  • #431
    inisboffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,393 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Met Eireann's weather station in Athenry reported its wettest March in 21 years, recording 129.9 mm of precipitation, amounting to 137% of Long Term Average rainfall.

    Despite this, there was no rainfall at all on 64% of weekday mornings between 08:00 and 09:00, while 73% of the afternoons on weekdays were dry between 14:00 and 15:00. This meant that it should have been possible to do a school run, say, of less than one hour duration without encountering any rain at all on average 68% of the time.

    There was light rain on just 32% of weekdays, and a 7% occurrence of intermediate levels of rainfall. There was no heavy rain on any day (Met Eireann definitions).

    Only four days in the month (13%) had rainfall at both times, ie 8-9am and 2-3pm.

    IMO this is yet more evidence that claims about rainfall levels making walking and cycling unfeasible are hugely exaggerated.

    Feel free to rip the data to shreds, if you can. :)

    Wish I was always cycling somewhere in the magical two dry hours ;)


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  • #432
    galwaycyclist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭galwaycyclist


    For balance I need to record that I got soaked cycling to work last Wednesday or Thursday - can't remember which now.


  • #433
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    Pretty miserable "summer" so far. I imagine Met Eireann's summary for May will feature low amounts of sunshine and high amounts of rain.

    Nevertheless, our commuting patterns were substantially unchanged, and there were no soakings (for the chislers) on any occasion.


  • #434
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    Carolyn Old Stationery wrote: »
    I pity your poor kid, I wouldn't cycle 3km myself at 28 never mind when I was 6.

    He must feel very hard done by seeing all his friends hop out of nice warm cars while he has to slog away hail rain and shine on a bike at only 6 years old just because you have some silly anti-car nonsense going on in your head.

    I can't resist this. Just for the record:
    Carolyn Old Stationery wrote: »
    Ireland is an ideal country for a convertible. We get plenty of dry days and a nice summers day here is a perfect temperature.


  • #435
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,714 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    I can't resist this. Just for the record:

    What a terrible attempt at countering my post.

    Yeah we get plenty of dry days (mostly in summer when the schools are on holidays) but we get a lot of wet and cold ones too particular in winter. You also have the option of pressing a button and up pops the roof and you are nice and warm and dry in a convertible.

    I 100% stand behind my earlier post. Regardless of weather I wouldn't make a young child cycle 3km anyway its borderline cruelty in my eyes.


  • #436
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    Carolyn Old Stationery wrote: »
    Regardless of weather I wouldn't make a young child cycle 3km anyway its borderline cruelty in my eyes.

    Ireland is an ideal country for cycling. We get plenty of dry days.


  • #437
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,714 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Ireland is an ideal country for cycling. We get plenty of dry days.

    I don't care what the weather is like, I'd think twice about cycling 3km myself never mind forcing a child to do it.

    I'd just bring the child to school in the car like a normal person would when travelling that distance.


  • #438
    tenacious-me
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭tenacious-me


    Carolyn Old Stationery wrote: »

    I'd just bring the child to school in the car like a normal person would when travelling that distance.

    Bit harsh, cycling is just for weirdos then?

    There's a reason a lot of schools around Galway have bike racks now and it's great to see it.

    3 km would only take 15-20 min tops, it's not that bad, that's a pleasant cycle length when it's nice out too, would walking it be weird too? Potentially better getting that exercise than being ferried in and out every day.


  • #439
    pmasterson95
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    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    I can't resist this. Just for the record:

    Wow you actually went to a 2 month old thread just for that?


  • #440
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,714 ✭ [Deleted User]


    tenacious-me wrote: »
    Bit harsh, cycling is just for weirdos then?

    There's a reason a lot of schools around Galway have bike racks now and it's great to see it.

    3 km would only take 15-20 min tops, it's not that bad, that's a pleasant cycle length when it's nice out too, would walking it be weird too? Potentially better getting that exercise than being ferried in and out every day.

    No cycling or walking isn't weird but I wouldn't do either for 3km return to get to school/work* and certainly wouldn't make a child do it when they can be brought in the car.


  • #441
    McTigs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭McTigs


    Carolyn Old Stationery wrote: »
    No cycling or walking isn't weird but I wouldn't do either for 3km return to get to school/work* and certainly wouldn't make a child do it when they can be brought in the car.
    exactly the thinking that has the roads clogged from September to June and the highest rate of child obesity in Western Europe.

    My kids are 5 and 2 and a half and can both easily cycle from the aquarium to the end of the prom and back ( younger girl on a balance bike mind).... School is only a five minute walk so no distance but if was further I'd have no problem with them cycling it.

    Cycling teaches kids a wealth of skills, independence and cop on they'd never learn in the back of a car


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  • #442
    tenacious-me
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭tenacious-me


    Carolyn Old Stationery wrote: »
    No cycling or walking isn't weird but I wouldn't do either for 3km return to get to school/work* and certainly wouldn't make a child do it when they can be brought in the car.

    I cycle 2.5 every day each way to work, do over 3 on the weekends to get the shopping done etc., it's grand, even when it's pissing rain if you have rain gear it's not half bad.

    There's always the car if it's particularly bad but it's a lot better for health having the daily exercise.


  • #443
    Iwannahurl
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    McTigs wrote: »
    exactly the thinking that has the roads clogged from September to June and the highest rate of child obesity in Western Europe.

    My kids are 5 and 2 and a half and can both easily cycle from the aquarium to the end of the prom and back ( younger girl on a balance bike mind).... School is only a five minute walk so no distance but if was further I'd have no problem with them cycling it.

    Cycling teaches kids a wealth of skills, independence and cop on they'd never learn in the back of a car

    Ah yes, but travelling everywhere in the back of a car, regardless of weather or distance, is "normal" in this country, which presumably means that walking, cycling and taking the bus are, er, a bit different.

    In less than two weeks we'll be back to the usual traffic "gridlock" in Galway, which as we all know is caused by the school run mania "normality", ie the vast majority of people travelling by car. If we are lucky, and the kids unlucky, we might even have the usual late summer/early autumn weather, ie lovely sunshine.

    I wonder whether they'll have traffic chaos in Oranmore again? Last year the Connacht Tribune solemnly reported that one parent had taken 35 minutes to drive 1.5 km from home to school in Oranmore.

    Coincidentally that is roughly the distance from the Aquarium to Blackrock. One way.

    God help us.


  • #444
    inisboffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,393 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Ah yes, but travelling everywhere in the back of a car, regardless of weather or distance, is "normal" in this country, which presumably means that walking, cycling and taking the bus are, er, a bit different.

    I do think it's particularly bad in Galway. I tend to feel more 'normal' in Dublin when biking around. I also strangely feel safer on a bike in Dublin & Cork than I do in Galway for that very reason. Hope it changes.


  • #445
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    Of the past 95 days it has rained on 94 of them. Only day with 24 hours of no rain was Dec 27. Taken from current wet spell data here

    http://www.galwaycityweather.com/today.htm

    And here

    http://www.galwaycityweather.com/record.htm

    After 3 years of commited cycle commuting, I have caved. Bought a car 2 weeks ago, just could not stand constantly changing wet gear at work and home.
    There was no viable alternative options for me going from knocknacarra to parkmore everyday. I've had to leave the bike several times at work this winter due to dangerous conditions which results in me getting drenched walking to nearest bus, having to switch at Eyre square and then walk in the pouring rain from the nearest stop to my house. This can take up 2 hours and I have to pay 2 fares for the privilege. We really need a bus that goes across the quincintennal bridge, how can this not be obvious to the bus operators?

    I still think cycling is a viable option if you're under 6 kms from work/school. But there needs to be something done for connecting knocknacarra/salthill with ballybrit/briarhill/parkmore


  • #446
    GDSGR8
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    sonandheir wrote: »
    Of the past 95 days it has rained on 94 of them. Only day with 24 hours of no rain was Dec 27. Taken from current wet spell data here

    http://www.galwaycityweather.com/today.htm

    And here

    http://www.galwaycityweather.com/record.htm

    After 3 years of commited cycle commuting, I have caved. Bought a car 2 weeks ago, just could not stand constantly changing wet gear at work and home.
    There was no viable alternative options for me going from knocknacarra to parkmore everyday. I've had to leave the bike several times at work this winter due to dangerous conditions which results in me getting drenched walking to nearest bus, having to switch at Eyre square and then walk in the pouring rain from the nearest stop to my house. This can take up 2 hours and I have to pay 2 fares for the privilege. We really need a bus that goes across the quincintennal bridge, how can this not be obvious to the bus operators?

    I still think cycling is a viable option if you're under 6 kms from work/school. But there needs to be something done for connecting knocknacarra/salthill with ballybrit/briarhill/parkmore

    The problem with buses going across the quincentennial bridge is that they're only needed(ish) for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening which doesn't make for a viable bus route. You could also buy a monthly ticket and use the 405/403 combination changing at Ballybane say. Or you could get a new job closer to home or closer to a bus stop!


  • #447
    what_traffic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,007 ✭✭✭what_traffic


    sonandheir wrote: »
    Of the past 95 days it has rained on 94 of them. Only day with 24 hours of no rain was Dec 27. Taken from current wet spell data here

    http://www.galwaycityweather.com/today.htm

    And here

    http://www.galwaycityweather.com/record.htm

    After 3 years of commited cycle commuting, I have caved. Bought a car 2 weeks ago, just could not stand constantly changing wet gear at work and home.
    There was no viable alternative options for me going from knocknacarra to parkmore everyday. I've had to leave the bike several times at work this winter due to dangerous conditions which results in me getting drenched walking to nearest bus, having to switch at Eyre square and then walk in the pouring rain from the nearest stop to my house. This can take up 2 hours and I have to pay 2 fares for the privilege. We really need a bus that goes across the quincintennal bridge, how can this not be obvious to the bus operators?

    I still think cycling is a viable option if you're under 6 kms from work/school. But there needs to be something done for connecting knocknacarra/salthill with ballybrit/briarhill/parkmore

    Ya its been a bad bad winter to be on the bike. Wet and Windy. Agree a direct bus route is needed. At least have a service running from 06h00 -> 10h00 in the mornings and 15h00-> 19h00 in the evenings
    City Direct applied for licence from NTA for this route in 2011/20122 but dropped it due to congestion on the Quincentenary Bridge. This was when the BODKIN Roundabout existed though.


  • #448
    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    GDSGR8 wrote: »
    The problem with buses going across the quincentennial bridge is that they're only needed(ish) for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening which doesn't make for a viable bus route. You could also buy a monthly ticket and use the 405/403 combination changing at Ballybane say. Or you could get a new job closer to home or closer to a bus stop!

    It's viable if it's in the contract with the NTA, as it is subsidised.


  • #449
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    2 weeks with no rain..so far


  • #450
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    snubbleste wrote: »
    2 weeks with no rain..so far

    Was it 95 of the previous 96 days that had rain?


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  • #451
    tenacious-me
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭tenacious-me


    snubbleste wrote: »
    2 weeks with no rain..so far
    gordongekko wrote: »
    Was it 95 of the previous 96 days that had rain?

    Thanks guys, ye jinxed it!


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