Minister for Transports big week out

Niallface

so this is the plan we get the minister to cycle to work for a week,
let him inspect the "cycleways" from our perspective instead of from the back of a government car.

taking bets as to how long it would be before "how i was coming down a hill and a car pulled straight out in front of me" would be brought up in the dail.

mikemac

Security aspect?

Gonna need a garda to follow him around, being a minister and all.
I'm sure it could be arranged

I think David Cameron in the UK used to cycle every morning for the first month or two when he became leader of the Tories. An example anyway

I think it'd be better for Councillors to do this.

blorg

micmclo wrote: »

Gonna need a garda to follow him around, being a minister and all.
I'm sure it could be arranged

We have at least one of those on this forum too (Garda, not Minister for Transport- as far as I know.)

Chips Lovell

micmclo wrote: »

Security aspect?

Gonna need a garda to follow him around, being a minister and all.

This isn't the US. I regularly see the minister for communications cycling to work, on his tod, like any other punter.

Myth wrote: »

I think it'd be better for Councillors to do this.

Yep, it's them who're responsible for urban planning. But if you wanted them to abolish cycle lanes entirely, then maybe you're better off lobbying the minster for transport.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

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Eoin D

Myth wrote: »

I think it'd be better for Councillors to do this.

The Cathaoirleach for my local council cycles all about the place. Of course he's with the greens so he kind of has to

blorg

el tonto wrote: »

Yep, it's them who're responsible for urban planning. But if you wanted them to abolish cycle lanes entirely, then maybe you're better off lobbying the minster for transport.

I would be happy with them no longer being mandatory, no need to get rid of them, they can be useful for kids. The order making them mandatory was signed by Bobby Molloy who was in Environment- but is this the responsibility of transport now?

Chips Lovell

blorg wrote: »

The order making them mandatory was signed by Bobby Molloy who was in Environment- but is this the responsibility of transport now?

yes, you're probably right, it's environment I think.

blorg

el tonto wrote: »

yes, you're probably right, it's environment I think.

It certainly used to be, but I believe the responsibilities of Environment and Transport were rejigged a while back and it is entirely possible it moved. Transport is in control of our forthcoming "National Cycle Policy" and Transport21 talks of new cycling paths. So not quite sure what exactly the breakdown between Transport/Environment/Councils is at the moment as regard cycling.

rflynnr

micmclo wrote: »

Security aspect?

Gonna need a garda to follow him around, being a minister and all.
I'm sure it could be arranged

I think David Cameron in the UK used to cycle every morning for the first month or two when he became leader of the Tories. An example anyway

Couldn't WE act as a kind of human/metal shield? As I envisage it we'd form a constantly moving circle around the minister (whoever s/he may be) as they progressed in our midst and through which no sniper could penetrate (unless they're so unsporting as to shoot from an elevated position). What greater demonstration of commitment to our cause could there be than offering to take a bullet just so officialdom can experience things from our perspective? I'm converting my armadillos into a vest as soon as I get home...

Victor

Dempsey did it a few years back (possibly when he was in Environment) and is afraid to go back on a bike in Dublin.