elections and cycling

jd

Andrew Montague (Dublin NW) has a video on SM and mentions cycling on his leaflets

buffalo

jd wrote: »

Andrew Montague (Dublin NW) has a video on SM and mentions cycling on his leaflets

And was largely responsible for starting the DublinBikes scheme, IIRC.

magicbastarder

he was also a founder member of the velvet underground:

Thud

played 5-aside against Monto years ago..he used to wear a full Ireland kit...

magicbastarder

not cycling related (bar that this chap is a keen cyclist), but he's director of the national biodiversity centre, so this is hi area of expertise:

https://twitter.com/LiamLy/status/1224249330112040960

droidus

SF have a separate biodiversity policy which is quite good. Probably should've put it in the manifesto.

AFAIK, on climate voting record, PBP, SD, Greens and solidarity are joint first.

cunavalos

Robbed from the Bike Park Ireland thread in the Mountain Bike subforum but Josepha Madigan was out on the campaign "trail" at the GAP in Glencullen recently. When pushed on the insurance crisis facing outdoor sports/tourism centre's apparently her response was to suggest that those finding difficulty finding insurance cover should find out from similar companies where they have got their current policy:rolleyes:

https://twitter.com/josephamadigan/status/1224242941885067264

magicbastarder

cunavalos wrote: »

her response was to suggest that those finding difficulty finding insurance cover should find out from similar companies where they have got their current policy

and that she can recommend a good solicitor's firm with experience in dealing with spurious insurance claims.

conkennedy

buffalo wrote: »

And was largely responsible for starting the DublinBikes scheme, IIRC.

That he was. It was also a small reasons why many of the tech companies came to Dublin - they're very in favour of their staff commuting by bike - very popular in Cal.

Hurrache

Bus connect came up in conversation with a canvasser and they tried to to tell me about the time they got hit by a cyclist when I talked about how its inadequate for cycling.
Told them it had nothing to do with anything and I didn't start the conversation by asking if they drove so I could tell them about the time I was hit by a car.

tomasrojo

Shay Brennan, on Twitter at least, gives the impression of being reasonably clued in about transport and cycling, so this might be good:
https://twitter.com/fiachkelly/status/1224660503936540672

flatface

tomasrojo wrote: »

Shay Brennan, on Twitter at least, gives the impression of being reasonably clued in about transport and cycling, so this might be good:
https://twitter.com/fiachkelly/status/1224660503936540672

He does have some good promises on transport but not convinced FF are the team to deliver any of it.
https://twitter.com/shaybrennan/status/1222863610591969280?s=21

tomasrojo

I know exactly what you mean.

Mr. Grieves

tomasrojo wrote: »

Shay Brennan, on Twitter at least, gives the impression of being reasonably clued in about transport and cycling, so this might be good:
https://twitter.com/fiachkelly/status/1224660503936540672

I find it bizarre that his running mate in that constituency is Deirdre Conroy, who scraped the last seat in Kimmage Rathmines during the local elections on the single issue of opposition to Bus Connects.

flatface

Mr. Grieves wrote: »

I find it bizarre that his running mate in that constituency is Deirdre Conroy, who scraped the last seat in Kimmage Rathmines during the local elections on the single issue of opposition to Bus Connects.

Thanks for the heads up! Read up on that here https://irishcycle.com/2019/06/14/attack-on-public-transport-campaigner-a-step-too-far-in-war-on-busconnects/

Captain Flaps

magicbastarder wrote: »

huh, that means he probably called to us too and i missed him. i was hoping to talk to him, had heard he was personally decent but i wanted to give an FGer a few thoughts that have been rattling round in my head.

I met him a few times a long time before he was a TD and he's a decent skin.

Incidentally I knew him through a fellow photography student who was doing a photo project on corruption and had us chuck on suits and pose for pics. As a result, there are photos on a hard drive somewhere of me handing Rock a brown envelope and shaking his hands. I always wondered what would happen if he fell out with the mutual friend and those pics surfaced, though they're very pantomimey.

I admire his stance on expenses and he at least made an effort to sort out the Ticketmaster stuff.

smacl wrote: »

Just waiting to see which if any of my local candidates owns up to building the ridiculous new roundabout in Scholarstown which has brought local traffic to a standstill and made an otherwise pleasant cycle far more dodgy. Apparently it is suppose to be a piece of cycling infrastructure too. The lads from "Dumb and Dumber" could have come up with a better design.

Hey, I'm local to you too, but only since mid 2018. What did this junction look like previously? Drive this stretch in the mornings and its a nightmare, thankfully the cycle takes me the opposite direction.

thequarefellow

How does one upload an image into a post. I go through the motions but when I hit Post, the image isn't there. Do I need special privileges?

Stark

buffalo wrote: »

And was largely responsible for starting the DublinBikes scheme, IIRC.

Correct. Got a **** load of flak for it at the time too but powered on through.

https://irishcycle.com/2019/06/14/attack-on-public-transport-campaigner-a-step-too-far-in-war-on-busconnects/

Great picture in that article. I can count about a dozen or so vehicles in the visible portion of that "bus lane" and only one that might possibly be a minibus (though I think it's a van).

Probably be the same number on the other side if people weren't having to get around the guy parked there. (Edit: ah he's waiting at the pedestrian lights). The blue car seems indecisive over whether to block the bus lane or not. Best to hedge one's bets and straddle both lanes.

AndrewJRenko

Captain Flaps wrote: »

I admire his stance on expenses and he at least made an effort to sort out the Ticketmaster stuff.

Not exactly a top priority issue for a national legislator - cost of nice-to-have events, but not really essential services

Captain Flaps

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Not exactly a top priority issue for a national legislator - cost of nice-to-have events, but not really essential services

Oh I agree entirely, it's just one of those things that was accomplished in a measurable way and it benefited me to some extent.

magicbastarder

thequarefellow wrote: »

How does one upload an image into a post. I go through the motions but when I hit Post, the image isn't there. Do I need special privileges?

manage attachments > browse > upload

the kicker is that the window which pops up is too narrow to show the 'upload' button - you need to scroll across or enlarge the window to see it.

tomasrojo

https://twitter.com/pward82/status/1225546555693961218

tomasrojo

I'd be tempted to take him up on his offer so he can waste resources on my 11th preference vote.

tomasrojo

I understand that he also wrote the first Linux kernel.

https://twitter.com/OConnorOisin/status/1225561490071150594/photo/1

tomasrojo

tomasrojo wrote: »

https://twitter.com/pward82/status/1225546555693961218

My mam was only telling me the other day this was a thing way back when they used collect my grandparents to go to vote as they lived on the outskirts of town.

One year involved making them wait outside a pub with my grand dad inside

tomasrojo

Deleted User wrote: »

My mam was only telling me the other day this was a thing way back when they used collect my grandparents to go to vote as they lived on the outskirts of town.

One year involved making them wait outside a pub with my grand dad inside

Sinn Féin have been doing a free taxi service to the ionad votála in my mother-in-law's neighbourhood for years.

Hurrache

[Deleted User] wrote: »

My mam was only telling me the other day this was a thing way back when they used collect my grandparents to go to vote as they lived on the outskirts of town.

One year involved making them wait outside a pub with my grand dad inside

I remember it being a thing back in the 80s and it's still a thing in many places.

Chips Lovell

tomasrojo wrote: »

Sinn Féin have been doing a free taxi service to the ionad votála in my mother-in-law's neighbourhood for years.

They also do free taxi services to the more remote parts of the Dublin Mountains.

Grassey

Saw this. Nice and handy reference graph.

tomasrojo

Grassey wrote: »

Saw this. Nice and handy reference graph.

It confirms what seemed to be in progress a year or two ago: Greens, SDs and Labour aligning on Green-ish issues. Partly, I presume, so they can form a bloc of a dozen or so seats. Hopefully also because they all think it's the right thing to do.