National Cycling Policy Framework: Evening Lecture (Wednesday 20th May 2009 @ 6:30pm)

Howdy,

Something I saw before which would interest a few people here I think...

There is a lecture taking place this Wednesday (20th May 2009) at 6:30pm at the Engineers Ireland HQ regarding the recently announced National Cycling Policy Framework. It is being given by a member of the Department of Transport. Details are in the link below.

http://www.engineersireland.ie/calendarofevents/CalendarDetails.pasp?INT_EVENT_ID=3740

There's also a link to the webcast which you can watch live and ask questions which are answered by the person. You've to register before you watch, with details here: https://engineersireland.webex.com/engineersireland/onstage/g.php?d=849936856&t=a

And finally the PDF 'poster' for the event is here: http://www.engineersireland.ie/uploads/Files/events/3740/%7BBB85EEEE67334A9EAD44C9B64E402723%7D_EIRTS%20FLYER%20%20NATIONAL%20CYCLING%20STRATEGY%20200509.PDF

I think a better picture could have been chosen but maybe that's just me.

Cheers.

Bit of a late bump - this is on tonight.

petethedrummer

Was it any good?

It was good yeah - the one bad thing (As someone picked up) was that they have only €12m going towards the plan in year 1, with an expected total cost of the implementation of the plan being around €2.3bn. But the guys behind it are very enthusiastic about what can be done, so that was good to see.

John_C

petethedrummer wrote: »

Was it any good?

It was pretty good. The fella giving the talk seemed very enthusiastic and everyone seemed to agree that the document he was presenting was very good.

The talk itself was a little civil-servanty, it was heavy on talk about getting cooperation from different stakeholders and a bit light on specifics. We'll have to wait a year or so to see what gets implemented.

There was one bit I found funny. The speaker was asked about sweeping cycle lanes. He answered that the on-road lanes are swept and the off-road ones aren't but they're getting a new machine which might be able to sweep them. I got the impression myself that the problem with the off-road lanes is that they're not accessible to wheeled vehicles but I decided not to say anything.

petethedrummer

Cheers lads, I would have liked to head to this but had footie.

Just on the very unlikely scenario that anyone is still interested, I noticed today that the recording from the lecture has been uploaded:

https://engineersireland.webex.com/mw0302l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=engineersireland

(Click on the top right the 'View Events Recordings' and then go down to the 20th May 2009).

DePurpereWolf

I am not able to find it, only see June

Sorry, was meant to be 'View Event Recordings' that you click on instead of the other one. Long day in work.