😉 I'd have called it windscreen perspective/windscreen vision
Good response over all. Although I don't really think the plane analogy makes sense.
3,700 people killed by motorists daily. A Ryanair 737-800 holds 189 people x 20 planes = 3780.
It almost made sense but what it should have said was what if 20 fully loaded 747s crashed every day killing all on board worldwide with another 200 or so leaving people with life changing injuries (the injury numbers are not correct but the death rate is, that's the number).
He is right with the figures but the Michael slant makes it sound local, motor car fatalities worldwide is 20 747s a day. In Ireland it would be a light aircraft per week. If pedestrians or cyclists were even 1/10 of that, they would be stopped immediately.
Right. I was comparing it to the 20 a week in Ireland. Point taken
I actually worked for Skehan a few decades ago. Two things I can recall about him which make me wonder about his article. At the time, he was unable to drive and used a Brompton to commute. He also was involved in FG and I recall him writing up speeches for various FG senators and TDs.
I've no idea if he is still involved with FG any more but given the crap he has written in the media about cycling (and housing), I'd guess that he is!
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First they got rid of tubes, now they've gotten rid of the air...
Fully agree. I got my driving licence shortly after turning 18. Its ridiculous that I could get to 88 and not have to do any training, testing or development in 70 years.
CPD exists in most workplaces. No reason we can't have some form of training every 10 years as part of the licence renewal process (to be shortened to a more frequent time period as we enter our elder years).
Same here - and then aside from a couple of short spells in the US - didn't use it for 15 years yet was still able to climb into a car and drive away. Can you imagine a surgeon taking that sort of break ("eh... remind me again, is that the heart or the liver?")
A bad crash between 2 cyclists in Glasnevin this morning
To think that this Scottish article managed to get past the journalist's road rage and also past his editor...
What a sad little man. This caught my eye in the clickbait below about Scots queuing for more than 18 hour for the opening of some KFC knock-off drive through. The mind boggles
Anyway, must stop reading bad Scottish "news" articles
It seems like there was a constant queue for 18 hours, rather than any individual was in the queue for 18 hours.
Either way, must be a serious snackbox 😂
Looks like Cork is about to have its Deansgrange
Fianna Fáil councillor Colm Kelleher, who wants an alternative route considered, insisted that the project has not been scrapped but is being reassessed to take account of public feedback.
“It will go ahead. I am all in favour of it but it has to be done in a fair and balanced manner to accommodate residents, landowners, all citizens – not just cyclists,” he said.
“If it can rerouted through nearby fields and that only upsets a few cows, rather than residents, then we have to look at that. We need more cycle lanes but it has to be done in a fair and balanced way.”
I look forward to future statements from Cllr Kelleher condemning the route taking agricultural land from farmers
I read it again
"our first customer turning up a whopping 18.5 hours before opening.". So looks like individual customers were indeed 18 hours queuing.
was it not the same or similar when krispy kreme opened in blanchardstown?
Well, that's just depressing, then. And mildly sad
Newstalk discussing how dangerous the roads are for pedestrian & cyclists and victim-blaming by RSA
At least the Gardai are consistent in their shite approach, thats something I suppose
I'm the sort of dull, conservative, law-abiding, middle-aged person that should be a big supporter of the Gardai but I swear I'm about two years from a leather jacket with 'ACAB' on the back.
Seems the poor woman is in an induced coma.
It might only be tangential to cycling, but a positive (albeit 10 year-old) short piece that I stumbled across today for anyone who fancies a bit of uplifting...
Experience: I taught myself to see | Life and style | The Guardian
Reported in the Indo and picked up by road.cc, apparently artists are worried that their Merrion Sq businesses will be negatively impacted if plans to remove parking in favour of cycle lanes (in 2025-2027) comes to fruition...
Tired with worry on something that hasn't even got past consultation stage yet and most likely won't happen for a few years, and in reality, they will just park on the bike lanes on a Sunday morning as there is no one around. Paper never refuses ink when it comes to a cyclist lane (non)story.
i would have hoped artists who sell to pedestrians, and who mention the likes of berlin and amsterdam, would acknowledge and welcome the obvious changes increased pedestrianisation would bring?
rather than lamenting simply losing the parking spaces where they themselves park; it's not as if they're complaining that their customers will be the ones losing the parking.
I've always thought this IT journo was a bit of a dose, but this is just trash.
some line this...
'Like many London trends, there is a few months’ lag effect on Dublin. But e-bikes – and their more insidious counterpart, the e-scooter – are slowly beginning to take hold in Ireland’s capital. Soon, if London is a helpful guiding principle, we might expect Dublin’s streets to be groaning under their weight.'
It's full of stupid mistakes too.
"Though their speed is technically capped at 14.8km/h"
It's not even as if that's a weird km to mile mess up, 25km is 15.5 miles, not 14.8 miles.
And e-bikes all seem to weigh 35kg. And make weird noises. She quotes hitchens, who has a weird hatred for e-bikes.
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