After our 1996 Toyota went kaput, we decided to go without. Commuting, ferrying kids, shopping and holidaying abroad? It’s all possible with a little ingenuity. Read article
Monthly Archives: May 2014
ECF Delegate Conference and Local Authority Seminar – Presentations
The following are the presentations from the recent ECF Delegate Conference and Local Authority Seminar hosted by the Dublin Cycling Campaign
- Bernhard Ensink
- Joe Seymour
- Kevin Mayne
- Michael Aherne 1 of 2 & Michael Aherne 2 of 2
- Mike McKillen
- Orla Corrigan
- Seamus MacGearailt
Other presentations
Dublin Cycling Stories
Dublin Cycling Stories is a series of short portraits of people who use bikes to get around Dublin … click image to view …
Local Authority election 2014 on-line survey
This is an analysis of the small number of responses to the Local Authority election 2014 on-line survey. There were only 50 usable responses (some did it twice!) out of 1,922 candidates. We were unable to reach lots due to not having contact email address and poor party HQ cooperation in getting the invitation out to candidates. Independent/non-party candidates are particularly difficult to reach. This means we can’t draw too much from such a limited response. We are disappointed that party HQs quite clearly failed to forward the email invitation to their candidates.
Party affiliation
- 19 Green
- 8 Independent/non-party
- 8 Labour
- 9 People Before Profit
- 2 Sinn Fein
- 3 Fine Gael
- 1 Fianna Fail
Continue reading Local Authority election 2014 on-line survey
Cycling growth could save NHS £250m, says report
A Dutch view of cycling in the USA
On the (UK) Guardian Bike Blog
Limerick Smarter Travel Infrastructure – update
After years of consultations, documents, PR etc. it is good to see some bollards on the ground at last
The flagship project is the river / canal path between the city and the university – 3/4km; but the road route is also in for improvement; the key impediment for cyclists on this route are two of the largest roundabouts in Limerick.
Below are some pictures of the work-in-progress on one of these roundabouts; a few things worth mentioning: 1) a key idea is to improve the (currently narrow) bi-directional pedestrian / cycle path on the city – university route 2) two 3-lane approaches to the roundabout are being reduced to 2-lane 3) the roundabout diameter is being increased
To be somewhat cynical about it, you could say this work is really a partial roll-back of the excessively car-centric infrastructure built in an earlier time
This is a report I did for LCC on this roundabout – which deals with these issues and more: Groody Roundabout Cycle Audit
Related post: Council slammed over Smarter Travel
