As part of the ongoing DublinBikes expansion 11 new stations have opened in the last month across Dublin city centre and in the Docklands.
Five stations have been added in the last two weeks at Mount Street Lower, Grattan Street, Great Strand Street, and two at York Street.
Hidden outside official statistics are the families transporting their young children by bicycle to crèches and schools in Dublin, discovers Cian Ginty Using anything but the car is nearly unthinkable … Read more
After two decades spent striving to improve the city for cyclists, the Dublin Cycling Campaign is more ambitious than ever, they tell Cian Ginty of their quest to fill the streets with bikes
When you hear some politicians and radio broadcasters speak of Dublin’s cycling lobby it draws the image of hired guns running around city hall after councillors or over at Kildare Street in weekly meetings with TDs.
The way some talk about it, the all powerful lobby gets everything. The reality is quite different.
As we recently reported, the National Transport Authority launched their online cycling route planner for the Dublin area. The planner (online here) should excel at showing cyclists and would-be cyclists easier or quieter routes. At the moment it horribly fails on this — so much so it should not have been launched or at least come with a health warning.
We tried several routes between three places we’ve lived at on the north side of Dublin City and work locations as well as commutes to a college and a university. On the ‘balanced’ and ‘easier’ route options the planned recommended routes which includes gates and steep steps:
An online cycling route planner for the Dublin area was launched today by the National Transport Authority (NTA). It can be found at journeyplanner.transportforireland.ie and as an Android App on … Read more
According to the mother of a female cyclist, who was left bloodied and confused in shock on the side of the road, Gardai have chosen not prosecute or fine the taxi driver who crashed into her daughter because his car was not travelling at speed and that the collision was a “misjudgement”.
The taxi driver – who had a client in his car – stopped and gave his details to the cyclist, but continued on without phoning for medical or police help. The cyclist’s mother said that the woman was left bleeding with facial injuries and crying on the side of the road.
The woman, Patrica Delmonte, told RTE’s Liveline earlier today that her daughter was hit when she was cycling in a cycle lane on the Rock Road in Dublin. She said her daughter was without a phone and in a “terrified” in a state of shock fearing another car may hit her.
Despite Dublin City councillors highlighting cyclists on footpaths as an issue for many residents, the city is planning to mix cyclists and pedestrians at a busy roundabout on the South Circular Road.
The councillors say they are often contacted by residents — especially older ones — about the issue.
Councillors often complain at council meetings that the city does not do enough to stop cyclists from using footpaths. In response, officials claim the issue is purely an enforcement problem which is out of their hands, but Dublin City Council council is increasingly using designs which mix cyclists and pedestrians.
“Supporters of helmets often tell vivid stories about someone they knew, or heard of, who was apparently saved from severe head injury by a helmet. Risks and benefits may be exaggerated or discounted depending on the emotional response to the idea of a helmet. For others, this is an explicitly political matter, where an emphasis on helmets reflects a seductively individualistic approach to risk management (or even ‘victim blaming’) while the real gains lie elsewhere.”
That’s Ben Goldacre, of Bad Science fame, and David Spiegelhalter, Winton professor for the public understanding of risk, writing in the British Medical Journal about the complex issue of mandatory bicycle helmets.