Way to go
https://news.sky.com/story/cyclists-could-face-speed-limits-and-may-need-number-plates-reports-say-12674899
Was it a balanced discussion, or just a one sided opinion piece?
Have a listen
Goes to show backwards the UK is getting. They're also INCREASING public transport fares at the moment. It's as if they think if they do the opposite of the rest of Europe they'll be right.
The North Korea way!!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/17/north-korea-where-bicycle-licence-plates-are-non-negotiable-grant-shapps
The nonsense delaying tactic by a local councilor is called out in the Irish Times by a local doctor
The next #Sundays4safety event is focused on walking. For those interested, the details are below
I don't think speeding cyclists is an issue here (we've still got high 50+kph speed limits).
Thousands of red lights are broken in Galway by motorists every day and I haven't heard of any motorist being prosecuted. Would this enforcement also begin?
Cyclists (and motorists) should 100% be procecuted for running lights and other offences but I don't think registration plates are necessary. That registration adds a barrier to entry for a sustainable mode of transport we want to encourage. Target enforcement instead, monitor a junction and have a Garda down the road ready to pull someone over (bike or car).
Red light jumping is dealt with by a FCN so you won't get a prosecution unless you fight it and lose. I know someone who was nabbed for this at the top of Threadneedle Road, going through on an amber. The Guard's position was that you had to be fully across the junction before it turned red or you were guilty. It would be interesting to see that interpretation applied more widely.
As for registration plates, Copenhagen Police manage to enforce the rules there very thoroughly without them, going by the bitching I hear from an Irish friend who lives there about the fines he has had pay.
She was shouting at the traffic again last Sunday with about 10 to 15 "campaigners" in tow. My young niece (not from Salthill) wondered why the lady was shouting and blocking the road!
I hope you were able to explain that it waas to highlight the illegal car parking at the junction and on the yellow lines to your young niece?
The council's response:
I put in a number of queries to Galway City Council last week and they told me there was a total of 20.45 kilometres in the city – that excludes off-road and park cycle tracks such as NUIG.
So lets look at that 20.45km
16.6km (8.3 each way) is made up of one route, from the WDR to Ballybrit along the SQR/QCB/BnT route
Then we have whatever the fark this is in Doughiska, 3.2km (1.6 each way but less if you wanted to be pedantic and literally just measure the bits themselves
Then we have bits like this on Thomas Hynes Rd with the same showing up at numerous other junctions around the city (Ballybrit Ind Est etc)
As well as some that act as filter lanes for cars
Or the ones that double up as parking
Lets not forget the magical disappearing bike lanes
So, actual quality, safe, protected bike lanes in Galway, probably only the WDR/SQR/QCB/BnT route qualifies and you still take your life into your hands at each junction, the rest is not worth really talking about especially the ones that are just paint
No, I'd no idea. All she saw was a hazard being created on the road and I told her best to ignore them.
Please explain to her the next time you meet her then - she is likely of an age and height who will greatly benefit from this action.
Parking on these junctions or near pedestrian crossings on double lines is very dangerous for children who are crossing minor roads like this or pedestrian crossings as sight lines are obstructed to other road users when approaching them.
The N6 section is service DUCT, only added to the Cycle Network 20yrs after it was originally built. When the Multi Lane Roundabouts were removed. So the real amount of KM's is smaller really. Its really only Doughiska (Council gave themselves a D rating in the GTS for that), SQR/BOD (that has large multi lane roundabouts either end of it and WDR.
Thomas Hynes Road and Headford Road examples above is just downright dangerous design.
I say the last bit of purpose built cycle and bus infrastructure built in Galway City is the Outbound Cyle Path Lane on the Rahoon Road and the Inbound Bus lane from Cemetry to Rockfield Park back in 2013/14?
It would be interesting to see the lengths of footpaths, cycle lanes, bus lanes and regular roads compared. Even more interesting would be total area comparisons.
Please also explain to her that if a person on not a Garda, they have no business directing traffic, and are breaking the law if grey try.
Are you drunk?
Sorry, who was directing traffic?
The only person I've heard of in this whole saga who was directing traffic was the passer-by who took on that duty until the Gardai arrived when the doctor who had been knocked off her bike was still lying in the road thinking she had a broken hip and shouldn't move. Are you suggesting this passer-by was breaking the law by altering drivers to the presence of an injured person on the road?
Temporary Closure of Roads - Clybaun Road
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Galway City Council has made an order closing:
Clybaun Road (L5020): From the Rahoon Road junction to the entrance of Ard na Gaoithe.
Period of Closure: 08.00 – 18.00, Monday 22nd August to Friday 26th August 2022
Reason: To facilitate utility service connections
Diversion Routes: Temporary diversion routes will be in place via Rahoon Road L-1017, Ballymoneen Road L-5024 and Western Distributor Road L-1012
Localised access will be maintained at all times.
Advance diversion signage will be in place prior to work commencing.
Might as well get it right then for Ceeview. Garda, Revenue Official or a Traffic Warden can direct vehicular traffic on the roads but that really is deflecting from the core message that illegal parking can kill road users.
I have not read or heard anywhere that vehicular traffic was been redirected anywhere? If one is merely highlighting that the faded double yellow lines exist at the junction or on approach to the pedestrian crossing that does not constitute directing traffic.
I think the one on Newcastle Road was after that? https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2815293,-9.0649717,3a,75y,90h,91.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sN24nNAnPUeLuArs542gbCw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x485b96f48d47a5e1:0xcbaf1c2415190a09!8m2!3d53.2817693!4d-9.0648149
and more recently Kirwan https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2869972,-9.0449705,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stRU_Yus4erYAOxNBRPLBNA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
I don't count these ones along the N6 as they are part of N6 traffic light junction roundabout re-configurations. Perhaps Kirwin could be the exception with that link section to the Coolagh Road?
I guess the Millars Lane Resurfacing, lighting and galvanized gate removal is going to the next one on the cycling front in the City? have other area's of City got such treatment?
What are you on about? Are you suggesting that the one shouting on the bike was highlighting illegal parking? How do you even know she and we were at some junction with yellow lines? All we saw was a small group of cyclists with one woman at its head shouting indistinctly at traffic and people. No-one seemed to have any clue what she was on about.
*Was it you?
Edited to add*
Wasn't there, going by Media Reports and photos of the event - the follow up educational potential here is great anyhow CeeView. Be a good Uncle! Kids remember stuff, am sure your niece will thank you in years to come.
Why would I listen, to what I assume is a biased argument? I asked whether it is balanced. You obviously dont want to answer that, so I assume the answer to be "no"
I dont waste my time listening to biased conversations that are promoted by fanatics. Every listen could be seen to support the argument being put forward, which really amounts to nothing more than propaganda
I don't know how young your niece is but it's sad if she has already internalised a view that people who choose (or maybe do so from lack of choice) to travel by bicycle are "blocking the road". So, as well as the educational opportunity mentioned by what_traffic above, this could also be a chance to let her know that:
What would balanced look like to you? An opposing voice arguing that kids should not be allowed on the street, that illegal parking should be allowed and that there's too much infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists?
Who do you imagine would argue those points?
The presenter did read out a text or two along the lines of "cyclists break red lights and until they stop doing that they deserve nothing" and put those to the interviewee. I liked her response that many more drivers break red lights, and that she is a driver as well as a cyclist, but nobody ever asks her, as a driver, to take collective responsibility for those drivers who break red lights.
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