Lauren made the point on Twitter that she should really have won because the times didn't include the 5 minutes the motorcyclist took to put his gear on. As one of the responses said, the clock should have started from desks inside the AA offices. Having said that, the video also showed her going through red lights, albeit at the T junction in Drumcondra.
did she include time taken to pack panniers, etc.? very easy to forget to include little things because they're so routine
one thing i often neglected to include in calculations on the commute i used to do is that i'd shower at each end; rather than once a day typically.
It's hardly surprising that a Motorbike is the fastest way to commute as Motorbikers and the speed limits are complete strangers....
You can be guaranteed that if the speed limit is 30 they are doing 50kph+ and when the speed limit is 50 they are doing 80kph+ and so on... Plus using Bus lanes and cycle lanes to skip ahead of traffic.. and zero law enforcement by Gardai...
https://www.newstalk.com/news/motorbike-is-the-fastest-way-to-commute-in-dublin-study-finds-1472245
I think they went out of their way to say that he had followed all rules, stayed out if bus lanes etc
yet if someone said the same about cyclists in the same manner, you'd be crying foul.
Thanks for noticing..
Leave motorbikes alone. Remember 2 wheels gud, 4 wheels bad.
Good one yea.. 🤔
Hmmm. You'd think, but...
on this note, i just cycled up washerwoman's hill and ballymun road in my civvies, at half the speed i'd usually do and now i'm pouring sweat.
and on the topic of how fast bikes are vs cars, according to google maps, the return trip i just did (to stoneybatter) would take 38 minutes in the car and 40 minutes by bike. my total elapsed trip was 41 minutes, and that included five minutes at my destination.
On a side note: I'd never heard of Washerwoman's Hill - looks like Facebook actually has a use...
https://www.facebook.com/GlasnevinHeritage/posts/washerwomans-hill-with-thanks-to-tony-odohertywasherwomans-hill-was-never-an-off/952249564925711/
I'm currently working on something that is taking time to process which gave me the time to look at this area on the old 25" map. Didn't find the nevin river but did find something I'd never seen on an old map before and doubt that the good people of Glasnevin would allow one nowadays...
'glas naoin' means 'the stream of the infants' IIRC (nothing sinister about that)! i had to go looking for it too and found this:
"Two streams can be seen near the Catholic "pyramid church", the Claremont Stream or Nevin Stream, flowing south from Poppintree and Jamestown Industrial Estate branches, and what is sometimes called the "Cemetery Drain" coming north from the southern edge of Glasnevin Cemetery"
also within a stone's throw of there, the only use of 'boreen' i'm aware of in a street name in dublin.
This discussion, ugh, Twitter really makes you think humanity should just throw in the towel.
I saw that thread last night. Lots of stupid people replying to a stupid comment!
One guy, a supposed Dr of some sort, was saying cycle lanes are part of the "wokification" of transport. Cycle lanes are woke now, lol.
I couldn't believe my ears when the 90 Second News Update was on in the car this morning - but unless I'm completely imagining things it was announced that Italy has introduced laws requiring cyclists to have insurance and carry a licence/ registration plate.
Now, there was probably about 90% context missing from the brief announcement, but still... anyone else come across this?
hardly worth mentioning in the journalism thread, though? (referring to the tweet)
seems there's meat on the bones of that story:
matteo salvini is a populist right winger, seems like a bit of a tosspot.
I wonder how it would work with the 1000s of cycle tourists that tour Italy every year
or the long history of bike manufacture in italy. the article is paywalled, so i can't see much detail.
The fact that this made the news summary in Ireland shows how much of a sensationalist, populist, dog-whistle of an issue cycling is in the media.
It's the same playbook as the half-witted, populist proposals that come from the current UK government - make some completely unimplementable suggestion as red meat for your supporters, do a quick study that shows its totally impractical and then bin it, making sure to blame the wokerati, the liberal elite and leftie civil servants.
Have to buy a sticker for your bike I'd say, similar to the Swiss Vignette for cars..
However this just appears to be populist shi*e and I'm sure the Italians won't stand for it... apart from the fact that establishing a system like this would cost more than it would ever gain back...etc..
An accessible version here
I love Italy. Pretty much everything about it. Even it's foibles I find easy to forgive. I have relatives who live there and cousins born there. But this made me properly LOLZ... “more rules, more education, and more safety on Italian roads”. Yes, because that's what Italian road users value more than anything 🤣 And of course it the cyclists who are the big danger on Italian roads 😭 Good one Matteo. EPIC lolz
Apparently a clarification has been issued, that Matteo salvini was talking about scooters not bikes.
Listening to Radio 1 and they had people texting in to say about Switzerland using plates and 3rd party insurance. No fact checking though such as this not happening anymore as the admin cost outweighed any potential benefit of the scheme.
That was interesting. The summary at the end has the bus pretty slow and by far the most expensive option, though that was only marginal cost not including the fixed costs of owning a car or bike etc. The e-bike was only marginally slower than the motorbike and seems hands down the best option for that kind of journey. The car could easily have been way slower at peak times and it would have been interesting to have a petrol or diesel car for cost comparison.
The bus pricing is also generous, they based it off a student leap card, standard fare would be €2, so twice the cost.
they also did it in an e-car, rather than an ICE car.
if basing it as a commute, the bus option would cost ~€800 p.a. (at 200 return trips a year); the same drive would probably cost 20c a kilometre at those speeds in an ICE car, or over €500 in fuel for the same number of trips.
