Well, ya know, we are notorious law-breakers so not surprising. Hope he was at least wearing hi-viz.
I can't read the whole article (paywall) but the opening line specifically says the dispute was about him locking up his bike.
Hardly a stretch to refer to him as a cyclist, regardless of how big an årsehole he is
This is fine taking public green space to store your own vehicles
https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3432013,-6.2182898,3a,75y,80.94h,76.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6ygDzvYxL-38UufdpeYZcw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
But you can't do this, on your own property
A bike box goes up in Ballintemple, but Cork City Council says it must come down (substack.com)
The planning requirements on this have been done to death at this stage.
It's also not comparable to people parking illegally, they're two completely separate issues. (I'm in no way condoning the parking above, it just doesn't relate to planning requirements for permanent structures)
yeah I just cycle past those cars on the grass frequently and it wrecks my head
Completely understandable. It's just shïtbaggery.
It is mental though that you could park a great big van on your driveway and store you bikes in that, no problem at all. And that would be a damn sight uglier than a bike box.
💡 business idea!
What about the ugly extension to the side that restricted access to his back garden, how did that get planning permission and why wasn't it stipulated that at least 1m was left to allow access? The extension effectively turned his semi-D into a terraced house as 460mm is very narrow and would struggle to get anything through there.
This Cork Co Co planning application search might explain why...
Hardly surprising, considering that's outside Cork County Council's jurisdiction.
If you had checked Cork City Council's planning site, you'd see three entries. Permission for the extension in 2012, an enforcement notice for the bike (and bin) storage unit (dated December 2022), and a refusal of retention for the storage unit from August 2023.
Deflecting the issue onto the extension is whataboutism. Fact is that there are loads of situations where exterior bike storage may be needed, and these recent planning decisions are a serious setback to lots of people taking up cycling. (Not to mention, a slap in the face considering how much visual impact and space cars take up.)
I agree that there's a need for these sorts of bicycle storage units. I also think that the planning authority should be making specific provision for them in legislation.
However, the planning decisions are not what's causing the setback. Those decisions can only be made with reference to the planning legislation as it stands. The real setback is in not making provision for such storage units in the legislation
Or at least a helmet if he was trying it on with bouncers 😅
Driver sitting ON closed seat belt killed in crash, passenger with seat belt survives.
Also 5 times over the legal alcohol limit and travelling at far in excess of legal speed limit by the sounds of it. Guessing the blowout was a result of having tires that weren't road legal as well. **** way of looking it I know, but the lack of seatbelt means he's no longer a danger to others, maybe we should be more permissive when it comes to this particular bit of law breaking.
Louth motorist accused of knocking cyclist off his bike cleared of careless driving (msn.com)
Moral of the story? Don't bother going single file if the road is narrow, just take up the entire lane two-abreast and ensure your own safety?
Of course, the headline writer is correct, technically speaking. But I think we all know what the Indo were hoping to achieve. There are lots of different ways to describe someone in any situation. Reaching for the headline-grabber, click-baiter is the cynical move.
I mean, maybe it was cynical, but the dude is a cyclist, fighting with people about where his bike gets locked up.
We can't say he's not a cyclist, just because we don't like his behaviour.
Just like dickheads in any other walk of life, there are dickhead cyclists too.
Maybe you're right. I suppose it depends what you consider a 'cyclist' to be, as people have become conditioned by the media to see them as either lycra mamils, militant go-pro vigilantes, crazed eBikers or middle class cargo bikers. This lad was as far removed from any of the standard media driven groupings, just a lad who happened to be on a bike at the time of the incident. Which, I suppose again, I should see as a positive - as in anyone who has a bike is a cyclist... we're all cyclists... just as we're all (almost) 'motorists'. But I've become so embittered by the media's attempts to create class war on the roads that I immediately bristle at headlines like that.
I'm off to seek help 😂
Edit: and yes, there are plenty of dickhead cyclists!
I can see where you're coming from.
There was a debate here a few years ago about what makes a 'real' cyclist. I contend then, and I contend now, that a cyclist is someone who cycles a bike 😁
Article by Peter Walker in today's Grauniad on the history of the "war on motorists"
Cycle buses getting featured on RTE. Small article, podcast and video
The more of these that spring up, the more parents there will be pressuring local councilors and councils for safer infrastructure.
The difficulty here is that no matter how often it is repeated that cycle buses are a symptom of a problem councils still seem to view them as a solution.
100%
The push from parents comes when the kids grow out of the cycle bus and transition to making their own way to and from school
Yeah thats a really good point - a wonderful local initiative vs parents having to go out and form a protective barrier around their kids on the way to school.
Most older kids go on the footpath, and most parents will tell them not to do it any other way.
100% and the Knocknacarra cycle bus have said this themselves - knowing the area that the Knocknacarra Cycle Bus services in this video, if the Council did something about Permeability in this area between estates the kids walking and cycling to School would not have to use the Western DISTRIBUTOR Road shown in the video. Even recently the Council upgraded Millars Lane which is linked to one of the Schools in the video - but did nothing about the permeability to the neighbouring estates in Rahoon.
I took a spin down it a few weeks back, what a difference, awesome work. The missing links to the individual estates are a glaring omission though
"Death by misadventure", I'm not that familiar with the judgements coroners courts can reach, but there must be something that lays the blame firmly at the victims fault in more obvious terms?
The report said there was nothing obviously defective about tyre.
Blowouts are often as a result of sidewall damage from being driven or stored underinflated.
"Kostis recalled that his friend seemed OK and had not got any smell of alcohol off him."
Well if Kotis, the front seat passenger, had smelled alcohol of him and then got into car any potential PI claim would be difficult.
5 times over the drink driving limit and no sign of drink takes some doing
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