Dose indeed
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Well the gardai learned nothing from being called out when they blocked the cycle and bus lanes for a similar checkpoint in Dublin a few weeks ago.
Seems to me like outrage bait to get a few clicks.
Nonsense article. Reads almost like it was written by ChatGPT. Either way, it's clear the author (man or machine) has never actually tried an eBike.
The article mentions speed, weight, and noise(!) of ebikes.....has anyone checked that Finn wasn't mixing up bikes and cars?
Article about bike theft in the UK.
Not sure if was meant as a clickbait type of headline but the IT has an article on the CSO's new maps...
An interesting approach, seems some drivers preferred the penalty points and fines rather than go before the kids court
was this on botanic road, as reported? a chap who lives me was wondering if it was botanic avenue rather than botanic road.
I had assumed it was at the river at the bottom of the hill. Surprised two cyclists would collide there as its going up the hill so you'd be going kind of slow and in the same direction.
yes, my neighbour had assumed the same too, he thought it might have been someone coming down mobhi road carrying too much speed crossing botanic avenue. i'd been wondering had it been at the pyramidal church.
This is really interesting. I think I live in the same area as several regular posters in this thread, D11, and I was taking a look at my own small area, 6.5km from the city centre. It's quite pleasing to see the volume of active and PT that people are taking compared to private car use. It does put a bit of perspective on what modes really represent the majority of travel.
i'm *very* near D11 and i think there's some quirk of demographics going on in my area; for example, in the 55-59 age bracket, there are six women and 19 men. there are quite a few (institutional) residential homes dotted around, which might play a part.
I caught Conor Faughnan on the Last Word yesterday, doing his best to gaslight everyone on the proposed Garda Portal for uploading footage of dangerous behaviour by road users, coming out with some gems like 'Ireland's roads are relatively safe', he's 'concerned about encouraging everyone to snitch on each other', 'people would just upload every case where they were aggrieved', 'we're all human and make mistakes... if you walked around town you'd see loads of pedestrians doing wrong things too', 'if you had AI cameras on roads to detect things like mobile phone use, red light breaking etc... sure everyone would be driving around worried about making a mistake' and of course, 'GDPR/ privacy'.
He's a slick media operator, I'll give him that. He did a very convincing job (as CEO of RIAC) of presenting as someone who has no issue with cyclists, or improving road safety, or punishing law breakers... just that, y'know, we need to be reasonable and do we really need this?. Unfortunately Matt Cooper hadn't the insight or wherewithal to actually pull him up on any of his gaslighting.
Very skilled operator alight - who is paying his wages these days since he's left AA Automobile Association (the influence AA had on our airwaves for decades was one of his masterstrokes)
Who are RIAI? It ain't: RIAI.ie
RIAC, not RIAI.
LOL! Yeah, sorry, my typo!
There is some fascinating insights in there alright. I had a look at the numbers for my area and the car-centricity vibe was not dispelled when I realised that 60% of all the commuting cyclists in the area are in my house!
That's not great really is it. I think what I'm seeing is that within a reasonable radius of the city centre then walking, cycling and PT are viable options and used by the majority. It would point to higher density and in-fill as the way to develop rather than sprawl
I think I comprised 100% of the commuting cyclists in my area. I say "think" as I can't remember what I actually put since I really wasn't commuting at all when they took the census and can't remember exactly how the question was phrased
Just in passing, it's very slightly funny that they think this photo is a visual reminder of the crime wave.
If nothing has changed in my current area, I am now 100% of all commuter cyclists in my area. This said, the area band is unfair, and despite being quite rural, there are a large amount of workers in close proximity (considering how rural we are) who cycle into work (most are e bikes but it still counts).
Where I was living at the time of the census, I am surprised to find, despite that being urban, I was 100% of all commuting worker cyclists, and 33% of all cyclists who commuted in total (ie work and school). This said, many of the local drug dealers in the area also cycled but I am not sure they would have classified this in the census as work, which shows a major issue with such historical data.
Sad news.
It was a bike accident... if only he'd been wearing a helmet...being struck by a pick up truck almost seems incidental to it. 🤔
Buddy Teevens: Dartmouth football coach dies after bike accident (usatoday.com)
Thanks for that.
Royal in the title? https://www.riac.ie/
Does the King of England have any input or say in his wages? Joking aside
this line says a lot
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Location
Located on Dawson Street, in the heart of Dublin, the RIAC is a stone’s throw from Dail Eireann (Irish Parliament), Government Ministries, Universities, Museums and many historic buildings. Dublin’s most popular shopping location, Grafton Street, is within a minute’s walk as is the beautiful St Stephen’s Green.
One of the RIAC committee is Auveen Byrne who is a town planner/planning consultant. A motoring lobby group with a planning consultant on the leadership committee. Useful to have such expertise to forward your agenda I guess.
I was in the restaurant in the RIAC ‘clubhouse’ once. It had a very old school gentleman’s club vibe. One of the big attractions of membership seemed to be the ‘free’ parking on Dawson St with an attended parking garage.
I was in it several times in the past with a motor racing marshals club I used to be part of. Nice quiet bar there but what really impressed me was the car lift up to the car park.
More nonsense from Newstalk (quoting Finn McRedmond who spouted the same crap in the IT recently)...
“If you think about what a car is for, it’s for transporting more than one person somewhere that’s too far to walk,” she said.
More than one person?
Here's an article from the Independent in 2021, where the journalist stood by the side of a road and counted the number of single occupancy cars.
Out of the first 100, 81 had a single occupant. Out of the second, 73 had a single occupant - and this coincided with schools finishing.
Cars may be designed to transport more than one person, but that's not what the majority of them actually do. And lets not even get in to e-cargo bikes which can transport multiple people....!
Some scumbag kicks off resulting in minor incident... how do we convert that into clicks and revenue? I know!! Call him a 'cyclist'!!
Cyclist made threat to smash bouncers’ heads in at Dublin pub | Independent.ie
I saw that earlier. Seem like this isn't his first brush with our legal system.
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