Journalism and Cycling 2: the difficult second album

Doesn't this shopping centre have a car park? He might want to pay more attention to the comments in the google reviews as to why people might not be going to this particular pharmacy.

Here's another example of how people are wedded to their motor vehicles: https://dublininquirer.com/2023/05/31/in-drimnagh-a-push-for-car-free-living-has-so-far-led-to-a-car-clogged-road/

A new apartment complex, less than 15mins cycle from the city center, 20 mins by Luas or Bus...

It's an old residential area so I'm surprised the locals haven't asked the council to paint in some double yellows..

The reason i'm linking this story is to highlight the fact that even with multiple options Bus/Luas/Bicycle/Go-Car, people are still locked in to the car.

And let's not forget that said jeweller closed down his store, and then went to work for a different jeweller located in a pedestrianised area!

"Why won't anyone think of the poor children of Ballincollig?"

This would be the Lloyds Pharmacy attached to a shopping centre that has a large car park accessible almost directly from the 4-lane Blackrock bypass; and has 14 on-street parking spots directly outside his door?

That shopping centre was almost empty long before the cycle-lane went through Blackrock.

There was a few up yesterday as well.

There's a resident there with a giant "No parking" sign affixed to the wall, as well as a double wide gate, all purely to preserve the space outside their front door as a private spot for themselves only. That's the level of entitlement.

All of the cottages have small garden space that, if with the removal of the walls between garden and footpath, could be converted to a parallel parking space actually on their own property. Something tells me that even if the council offered to fund the conversion that most wouldn't be in favour of the idea of using their own private property to store their own private property

I've been cycling in Dublin for 25 years but originally from Galway and have family there so familiar with the roads. Good piece but what horrific injuries on a roadabout, no details given as to the type and speed of the vehicle.

Just read that too. I don't ever remember annual serious injury number before. The only metric I ever remember being published was road fatalities.

Strongly linked with discussions we've had on boards here before about how these things get reported

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_road_traffic_accidents_deaths_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland_by_year

1997 they started recording serious injuries, injuries in 1922; hat the criteria was or is fcuk knows

It's a bit all over the place. The Wikipedia article you linked to earlier differs at various points from the Garda and RSA figures, which differ from each other. One would think the RSA should be the authoritative - no pun intended - source of info, but looking at their latest annual report (2021) there're a couple of infographics about KSIs, and the rest is just them blowing smoke up their own jacksies.

And as for this pleading nonsense. If only there were some alternative to pleading, let's say some rules, where if you broke them you had to go and stand in a corner with a big "D" hat on, or something like that, and being really fanciful, you could have some official body like, for example, the police would be in other states enforcing these rules

True! That Facebook page always sticking up warnings about checkpoints and speed vans, actively helping those who have something to hide avoid being caught..

Not to mention the fact that if you're not speeding and your car is Taxed/Insured/NCT/Drivers licence then there's no issue with checkpoints! And I think we all want those without the aforementioned put off the road....

Targeted enforcement is badly needed. The vast majority of speed enforcement that I see appears to be outside of urban areas, on MWs or on inter-urban roads. It's far too rare that I encounter the same in urban areas (despite doing far more of my road travel in urban areas than outside of them).

Focus on speeding and other dangerous road offences in areas where they have greater potential to impact on other road users. Call me callous about it - but the speeding driver doing 150 on the MW is more likely to harm themselves than anyone else, whereas someone doing 60 in a 30, or 80 in a 50, is much more likely to do damage to another road user (and usually not another driver).

I'm not advocating for abandoning enforement on MWs, or national roads, just putting a bigger emphasis on urban areas.

I much rather seeing the speed van in the regular spot on Upper Baggot St, or on the Quays than seeing one on the M9, or on the Mullingar bypass.