Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Journalism and cycling

1…193194196198199…331

Comments

  • #5852
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    posts on hi-vis move to the hi vis megathread, found here


  • #5853
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,030 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Interesting piece on start of Ciara Kelly show from an architect/cyclist listener talking about issues with cycling lanes being blocked.
    The architect part is relevant as he has some awareness of current guidelines and practices in allocating space to cycle lanes.

    A delivery driver called in and said they would love to deliver items in the middle of the night but A, businesses are usually closed and B, residents don't want the sound of delivery trucks at 04:00.

    Be interesting if electric-vehicles could alleviate part of this issue.


  • #5854
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    That architect was Ciaran Ferrie I believe!


  • #5855
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    it was indeed.
    https://twitter.com/ccferrie/status/1083703729797382145


  • #5856
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,373 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Tell me how wrote: »
    A delivery driver called in and said they would love to deliver items in the middle of the night but A, businesses are usually closed and B, residents don't want the sound of delivery trucks at 04:00.

    Be interesting if electric-vehicles could alleviate part of this issue.

    My wife at one stage worked alongside Dublin City Council in trying to come to an agreement as to best practice for deliveries into stores in the city centre.

    As it is drivers should be switching their engines off anyway. But the noise complaints usually stem from either the noise of roll cages being dragged back and forth, or the hum of the refrigeration units as opposed to the noise of them arriving and departing.


  • Advertisement
  • #5857
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,030 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Hurrache wrote: »
    My wife at one stage worked alongside Dublin City Council in trying to come to an agreement as to best practice for deliveries into stores in the city centre.

    As it is drivers should be switching their engines off anyway. But the noise complaints usually stem from either the noise of roll cages being dragged back and forth, or the hum of the refrigeration units as opposed to the noise of them arriving and departing.

    Or the beep beep beep of the reversing siren.


  • #5858
    xckjoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,475 ✭✭✭xckjoo


    Tell me how wrote: »
    Interesting piece on start of Ciara Kelly show from an architect/cyclist listener talking about issues with cycling lanes being blocked.
    The architect part is relevant as he has some awareness of current guidelines and practices in allocating space to cycle lanes.

    A delivery driver called in and said they would love to deliver items in the middle of the night but A, businesses are usually closed and B, residents don't want the sound of delivery trucks at 04:00.

    Be interesting if electric-vehicles could alleviate part of this issue.


    I don't really blame delivery drivers for this kind of thing. They pull up where they can and are usually under tight time constraints so can't spend 20mins looking for parking nearby. Like most of these things it's a planning issue. I'm sure most delivery drivers park loading bays where available.

    Now the lads that pull up to nip to the shop can f right off :pac:


  • #5859
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,698 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    xckjoo wrote: »
    Tell me how wrote: »
    Interesting piece on start of Ciara Kelly show from an architect/cyclist listener talking about issues with cycling lanes being blocked.
    The architect part is relevant as he has some awareness of current guidelines and practices in allocating space to cycle lanes.

    A delivery driver called in and said they would love to deliver items in the middle of the night but A, businesses are usually closed and B, residents don't want the sound of delivery trucks at 04:00.

    Be interesting if electric-vehicles could alleviate part of this issue.
    I'm sure most delivery drivers park loading bays where available.
    Not in Ranelagh at SuperValu - grand loading bay at the back, but vans and trucks regularly block the cycle lanes for deliveries. They even put out cones to keep cars off the cycle lanes so that only their vans can block them.


  • #5860
    xckjoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,475 ✭✭✭xckjoo


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Not in Ranelagh at SuperValu - grand loading bay at the back, but vans and trucks regularly block the cycle lanes for deliveries. They even put out cones to keep cars off the cycle lanes so that only their vans can block them.


    I was thinking my comment was fairly anecdotal when I posted it :D


  • #5861
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,908 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    xckjoo wrote: »
    I don't really blame delivery drivers for this kind of thing. They pull up where they can and are usually under tight time constraints so can't spend 20mins looking for parking nearby. Like most of these things it's a planning issue. I'm sure most delivery drivers park loading bays where available.

    It is an indirect subsidy to them though, meaning they're more competitive with small delivery vehicles than they would be if the parking/unloading rules were enforced properly.


  • Advertisement
  • #5862
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,373 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Apropos of absolutely nothing, Ed Power writes this in an article about the Irish nightclub in the Irish Times
    A thriving nightclub is as rare a sight in Irish cities as a cyclist stopping at a red light.


  • #5863
    Qrt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭Qrt


    Hurrache wrote: »
    Apropos of absolutely nothing, Ed Power writes this in an article about the Irish nightclub in the Irish Times
    A thriving nightclub is as rare a sight in Irish cities as a cyclist stopping at a red light.[/url]

    I came here to post the exact same thing. It’s quite shocking.


  • #5864
    tampopo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,335 ✭✭✭tampopo


    Aldi in Rathmines get deliveries at 6am


  • #5865
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,698 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    tampopo wrote: »
    Aldi in Rathmines get deliveries at 6am

    Tesco Ranelagh get theirs at 6am, and were very apologetic when I complained about a one off incident of a truck there at rush hour


  • #5866
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,275 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    The WTF of this article is best appreciated when read from the start. I won't spoil the surprise by quoting.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/murder-of-the-dance-floor-the-irish-nightclub-is-dying-1.3753588


  • #5867
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    You were beaten to it several parts ago.


  • #5868
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Lumen wrote: »
    The WTF of this article is best appreciated when read from the start. I won't spoil the surprise by quoting.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/murder-of-the-dance-floor-the-irish-nightclub-is-dying-1.3753588

    Its just unreal.

    Where The Irish Times is concerned, just about any article can be pepped up with a dig against cyclists.

    And yet, they want the higher moral ground of being supportive of cycling.

    I'd much prefer the straight Newstalk approach of unashamedly putting the boot in, at least you know where you stand.


  • #5869
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,264 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    TheJournal - Gardaí find €3k drug stash after suspected serial bike thieves arrested in Cork


  • #5870
    cjt156
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭cjt156


    Interesting that the drug value makes the headline.

    The value of the bikes stolen is far in excess of that figure; but sure they're only bikes...


  • #5871
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,030 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    cjt156 wrote: »
    Interesting that the drug value makes the headline.

    The value of the bikes stolen is far in excess of that figure; but sure they're only bikes...

    If they found drugs recovering stolen cars they'd lead with the drug story as well in the same way.


  • Advertisement
  • #5872
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,276 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    As Lance said: "It's not about the bike"


  • #5873
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,264 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    "They were obviously drug pedallers.." :pac:


  • #5874
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    cjt156 wrote: »
    Interesting that the drug value makes the headline.

    The value of the bikes stolen is far in excess of that figure; but sure they're only bikes...

    (I) That's debatable - once the bike is purchased, then its second hand, so its 'value' is diminished. A two year old bike that you paid 1000euro for will be valued at around 500euro by an insurance company....if they are paying out on 'current value'.
    (II) I take your point, but I'd also note that the Gardaí discovered the drugs while searching for bike thieves/ not the other way around. I think the notion that the guards do nothing about bike robberies is way out.


  • #5875
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,388 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    (I) That's debatable - once the bike is purchased, then its second hand, so its 'value' is diminished.
    the 3K haul of cocaine & cannabis is likely a few joint butts and some dust scraped off a rolled up 50!


  • #5876
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,373 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Didn't see them get involved with removing that car on Aungier Street for weeks when they were all concerned about cyclists and safety
    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1084840272058597376?s=19


  • #5877
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,570 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    cjt156 wrote: »
    Interesting that the drug value makes the headline.

    The value of the bikes stolen is far in excess of that figure; but sure they're only bikes...
    Someone's listening!

    https://www.eveningecho.ie/nationalnews/Three-arrested-in-Cork-as-suspected-stolen-bikes-recovered-by-gardai-ebea6243-a16f-446a-8bc5-f44daf3dded5-ds


  • #5878
    BrianHenryIE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭BrianHenryIE


    Six Ways the Media is Still Blaming the Victim
    usa.streetsblog.org/2019/01/14/six-ways-the-media-is-still-blaming-the-victim

    Nothing new for readers of this thread but it's clearly laid out and could be sent to journalists to teach them the error of their ways.


  • #5879
    mr spuckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    reading sh1t like this makes me really bloody angry.

    Ministers criticise increased drink-driving checkpoints


  • #5880
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭buffalo


    mr spuckler wrote: »
    reading sh1t like this makes me really bloody angry.

    Ministers criticise increased drink-driving checkpoints

    Read that earlier. My favourite is the call of 'police state', which I guess in this context means a state where police operate?


  • Advertisement
  • #5881
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Another Minister said community policing was the backbone of how An Garda Síochána worked and suggested “stopping people going to Mass” could undermine that.
    it'll only stop them going to mass if they're actually over the limit. does not compute.


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement