Cycle lanes as the Green party's main policy, I'd have no idea. A quick check of their party website would possibly solve that question. Cycle lanes as a number one, main priority in terms of national policy would seem strange though.
Anyway, enough of that deflection from the statement you made a month or two back Nox.....sorry I mean Mr Staple.
The thread is about Galway traffic and not data centers. Going through a person's post history and referencing it in another thread is pretty pathetic and childish.
A deflection tool used by the poster to hide away from any actual debate or discussion. Throwaway, baseless, factually inaccurate comments, random insults to anyone questioning the viability of the road, which have been banned in the M6 thread over on Roads/Infrastructure but continue here.
They're all out to get you Mr Staple. Coming for you on their high Nellie's wearing their hemp jumpers and pampooties.
I’m pretty sure this person is a Galwegian!
Well that green senator on newstalk earlier today was a joke, advocating to have the bypass scrapped
Don't want a city spread out but yet as councillor or any green councillor or otherwise doing anything to change planning to ensure higher density so mass transit is viable.
Halford have 7 ebikes listed €539 - €863. They are getting cheaper and with improved range.
Agree that cycle to work is backwards in that low earners get lower discount but another plus is most employers will allow you to spread the cost over the year of payslips.
If we're talking about affordability of different modes of moving around the city..
Walking:
Active Transport: $
Public Transport: $$
Private Car: $$$
Walking is ideal for those that live near where they work, shop, etc. We should make it as comfortable as possible, no long waits at crossings etc.
Active travel should be made inviting and safe for anyone who could potentially use it. It requires a small share of public space and scales well with population. It's not an option for many though, not everyone is willing or able to hop on a bike.
Public Transport is the big hitter here. Scales well, accessible, relatively cheap (and should be subsidised further), scales well for moving lots of people in limited space. No big upfront cost, pay per trip or month.
Private cars do not scale as a way of moving around a city. Necessary for most longer trips beyond the city or for life in most of the county. We should facilitate cars to arrive on the outskirts and jump onto public transport to move around within the city. Building new internal ring roads for people within the city to commute by car and plan for future car dependency is madness.
For city living I think we'll move to owning either a public transport ticket/subscription or bike and use ad-hoc car rental for longer trips beyond the city as needed.
Lived here previously.
Has been very clear that when WFH provided the opportunity to live further away s/he took it and moved away.
What.............. this is such nonsense. Get a grip of yourself.
The whole "how maroon are you" is tiresome as well.
There's nothing in the forum charter to exclude anyone from these discussions, so you might want to hold back on appointing yourself some kind of back-seat moderator for the discussions.
My drinking game for the weekend will be to down a shot every time you come out with another cliché about Green / lycra / cycle lanes. Good job I bought some bottles before the prices went up.
OK, the battery removal bit is good.
Not sure about employers needing to provide facilities though: if they do this for bicycles, do they also need to do it for mopeds, motorcycles, cars, etc?
Yeah I'd see that as more of a perk, it's the bike owners responsibility to lock it securely and add whatever added protections they think are justified.
Is there a reason why bike parking is free? Could it not be charged for the same as any other parking and then the customer could expect increased security as part of that service.
Some places have secure storage that you pay for or the racks for free. Better to provide the free racks I think or people will just lock them to everything
At the basic level I think you could view it as a carrot more so than a perk. In order to have the equivalent level of protection that a locked car has you need to at least have something stationary to lock your bike to. But Sheffield stands are cheap. You could convert one car parking space to 10 bike parking spaces for only a few hundred euro. A once off cost of less than €40 per bike space, in exchange for which an employee opts to take up 1/10 of a car parking space, instead of a full space, isn't really a perk in my book. For covered storage you might only fit 8 spaces into one car parking space, and your cost per bike space is going to go up to maybe €300, but I think many companies would consider that a worthwhile expenditure to take the pressure off car parking spaces, rather than viewing it is an employee perk.
Secure bike is coming on stream in various guises
There is bikelocker.ie as an example but I'm guessing you mean the likes of CCTV?
I like what Dublin City Council have done where they provide free secure bike parking in some commercial carparks. They even have some special larger spaces for cargo bikes or mobility bikes. It's free of charge, which I'm sure some motorists will gripe at, but at the end of the day more people opting to cycle into the city centre rather than drive means less congestion for everyone, and it's good that DCC can see the value in that (unlike local authorities closer to home).
You mean Drury st? That's the best bike parking in the country. They really set the bar with that one
That and Jervis St. I haven't seen either in real life though, only pictures.
Generally employers do provide facilities for cars, at considerable cost in terms of land used and maintenance and security. Often, cyclists are an afterthought, even though they can be accomodated at minimal cost.
There are lots of employer benefits in supporting employees to cycle - including improved health, reduced pension and disability costs.
Reduced pension and disability costs?
More likely to die in accidents, so less pension needs to be paid out???
If anything I'd expect that people who are healthy enough to cycle will live for longer, so need more pension paid out.
Pension schemes generally include some degree of life insurance and disability insurance. As your workforce gets healthier, your insurance costs reduce.
And how do you guage that, exactly?Count the bikes?
We have two bike sheds. And three smoking sheds. Do they cancel eachother out? One bike shed equals two smoking sheds?
Count the deaths and hospitalizations.
I would change one rule for Ebikes... Use the American Rules instead of the EU directive...
American Ebikes are don't have to be pedal assist, stronger (750w v 250w) and are limited to 32kph (instead of 25kph)... The EU is only a Directive some countries didn't take them... Danes went all out and called pedelecs bikes...
This I believe could at least give cycling a fighting chance... This is why I am so against building stuff without targets... Without targets we are just being aimless and not thinking our way out of things...
So much of this is down to population density of our cities (ex Dublin)... Dubln has 2.5 times the pop density of Galway, this means 2.5 times more travel to get to places generally, it also means a lot less shelter when cycling...
These should be also an option as well... Some people are just
I've seen some of those online, they look crazy fun, especially off road.
As for what cycling needs, it's simple safe cycling infrastructure. Everything else is icing on the cake
But yeah, would love a spin on one of those yokes
I think if you want more cycling infrastructure it has to come with the likelihood that it would be used... The worse advertisement for cycle lanes is empty lanes... Increasing usage has to acknowledge that we don't have the best conditions for high cycle usage unless we tip the scales a bit...
The main reason I say the law has to change is it means the bike to work scheme would be paying for half the bike, this means up to 750 euro off an e-bike.
These stronger bikes mean we can also change the shape of the bike we use... We generally use bikes which are build for more economical biking while the countries which have high usage use a safer bike to control... The saddle is lower (lower centre of gravity) and the handle bars are turned in for better control (think of our winds and carrying more), wider saddle and more suspension... one of the reasons (not the only one) dutch don't wear helmets generally...
This allows for cycling to set targets and hit them... So when you want 10% of the road surface then you can say because we are going to realistically have 10% of the traffic off the road... Spending money without such plans and targets
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