Fair point. My original comment was looking at it more from the point of view of leisure cycling rather than utility cycling given the distance and fairly rural nature of most of it.
I guess the bypassed N roads will cater for that. Using the one alignment for road/ active travel/ rail/ segregated bus lanes is something we could do more of.
Councillors out the gate quick on this one and talking through their arses. I'm not a fan of e-scooters but I'd like to understand more around the circumstances of the collision before considering what could be done to prevent something like this happening again. From my experience of Waterford city (like most urban areas in Ireland) there is practically zero effort put in to keeping low mass (sub 50kg) vehicles safe from 1,000kg vehicles.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/an-absolute-tragedy-teenager-killed-after-crash-between-e-scooter-and-bus-in-waterford-city/a659367062.html
Awful tragedy. No idea of the specifics here nor am I going to speculate who did or didn't do what, but where it happened certainly lacks infra. It's on the main road out towards Cork (there's a bypass but you have to go out this way to access it plus from the pictures it appears the bus was inbound) and the particular stretch isn't particularly well lit and tree lined. There're "bike lanes" (i.e., a bit of paint) further in towards SETU and further out as well - but nothing along here
The second kid involved in that has died.
That is tragic news.
Cycle lane to make people unemployed...
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Sad news in Cork yesterday:
https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0706/1458594-road-traffic-incident/
I must admit to listening to this from time to time. Particularly Johan Bruynels analysis
Dave Hannigan: Why does Lance Armstrong’s cheating not seem to matter to so many in cycling?
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/cycling/2024/07/11/dave-hannigan-does-lance-armstrongs-cheating-not-matter-any-more-what-is-going-on/
Paywalled, but was it ever really about the doping with LA? This years Tour basically started with a homage to Pantani! It was always more about the bullying, controlling and coercive behaviours that went along with the doping.
I struggle to get through podcasts without 5 days a week commuting, but I have listened to the Move in the past and only ever found Bruynel interesting/ insightful tbh. I think he basically has his own podcast now, and they leave the inane bants to LA/ Hincapie?
was mentioned here at the time IIRC.
going from this…
…to…
I worded it clumsily the first time. But authoritarian cycle lanes have divided towns
#votesmatter
WTAF
Oh dear
authoritarian, she keeps using this word, I do not think it means what she thinks it means.
Bloody militant cyclists and their authoritarian cycle lanes.
I would truly love to have a fraction of the power and influence that the right-leaning thought-vacuums ascribe to cyclists and their "lobby".
I would hope she does, given her party's history!
Interesting debate on NT breakfast, John Gibbons talking about all the extra active travel in Paris and the benefits all the extra bike lanes have had on the city. He's usually fairly knowledgeable on climate issues but of course texters say bike lanes aren't used when they are built. This is obviously subjective as, to my knowledge, there is no device that counts the number of cyclists in a bike lane.
Coincidentally I was in Benidorm a few weeks ago, they have a rather nice cycle lane that runs parallel to the beach and a few devices that counts the users. I think something like this would be good to put to bed the idea that cycle lanes aren't used enough to justify their existence. It could, of course, backfire but I don't think they will. Thoughts?
Note:Photo taken from the internet
Meanwhile an actual lobby group manages to get a democratically approved city centre infrastructure improvement scheme delayed. But that's ok because they wear suits and talk jargon.
Authoritarian car parks?
There are a few counters dotted around Dublin since 2011. Here's a map of the ones in DLR for example.
Fair enough, I speak from a Limerick perspective where we have no such thing but apparently the most active Active Travel group
Interesting stats from that link although not easy to read
It's possible they exist but in a less visible form than the totem pole in your picture.
https://www.limerick.ie/council/newsroom/news/newly-installed-radar-counters-begin-looking-at-traffic-and-pedestrian
I use the South Circular road every day and never noticed those counters, must take a closer look. Interesting that there is no data publicly available just that the Active Travel crowd use it for their stats
i spotted one i had not noticed before, the other day - on the old airport road northbound beside santry stadium. turns out it's been there for years, not sure how i missed it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4011999,-6.2431086,3a,75y,5.41h,69.25t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxv5h62s_EhcrpzEzFkONMw!2e0!5s20230401T000000!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu
The data collected is available here
https://data.gov.ie/dataset?q=Cycle+counters
doesn't look like the counters/datasets are well maintained
_Year
Month
Dates
Coast_Road
Castleknock
Morton_Stadium
Portmarnock_Greenway
2023
January
January 1, 2023 -> January 31, 2023
481
33
251
14899
February
February 1, 2023 → February 28, 2023
658
44
0
March
March 1, 2023 → March 31, 2023
547
39
April
April 1, 2023 → April 30, 2023
756
48
May
May 1, 2023 → May 31, 2023
1030
59
June
June 1, 2023 → June 30, 2023
1036
54
July
July 1, 2023 → July 31, 2023
711
August
August 1, 2023 → August 31, 2023
857
September
September 1, 2023 → September 30, 2023
755
October
October 1, 2023 → October 31, 2023
729
46
265
November
November 1, 2023 → November 30, 2023
December
December 1, 2023 → December 31st, 2023
657
208
Total 2023
8910
371
724
the figures for October and November are the same across all four counters. there are periods where some recorded nothing…
Could be a huge coincidence but I'd be interested to hear why 14,899 used the Portmarnock Greenway in January and nobody in any other month. Did it close beofre February? Needless to say not keeping records properly will only increase skepticism among the ones that will oppose no matter what
