One of the most often heard complaints about cyclists is cycling on footpaths. So, it would seem a bit like madness for the councils who design our roads and streets to continue to design space which mixes cyclists and pedestrians.
Is there an annoying pot hole on your commute? Or a broken street light on your street? There’s now two national websites which can be used to report problems on streets to any county council:
Or if you live in Northern Ireland you can have the pleasure of using the original and superior fixmystreet.com, run by UK charity mySociety.
Mayo residents mourning the loss of a love one, or those visiting the graves of family or friends, may soon find themselves “guilty of misconduct” if they use their bicycles to get to the graveside.
Mayo County Council’s proposed graveyard bylaws, if enacted, will ban cycling in graveyards, labelling using the mode of transport as “misconduct”.
The ban on cycling would cover many graveyards in Mayo where it is permitted for motorists to drive around — including larger cemeteries where a round trip from graveside to the main road can be up to 1km.
Here’s the misconduct section of the bylaws, the General Regulations For Burial Grounds in Co Mayo:
Dariusz Rosa shared this video with us which highlights the abuse of the cycle lane on the Clonskeagh Road, Dublin 6…
Dublin City Council has said Dublin Bikes users have clocked up 4.7 million rentals, between September 2009 and last week.
The system has 53,000 long-term subscribers who pay €10 annually — around 8,000 extra compared to a year ago without any increase in the number of bikes.
Tourists and others have bought over 38,000 three-day tickets at €2 each — amounting to around 7,000 in the last year.
The average journey time is 13 minutes and 95% of journeys are under 30 minutes, which are free.
Each bike is rented around 10 times a day. The busiest day last month was on Thursday the 5th when the bikes were rented over 5,700 times.
STATS IN FULL:
RAW DATA: The budget for cycle route between Portobello and the North Docklands, known as the “Canal Way Cycle Route”, which was requested and released under Access to Information on the Environment. 2012.08.09 … Read more
Dublin City Council has released the first snapshot of traffic management works needed for Luas Broombridge construction, and, so-far, it seems like good news for cyclists.
The works relate to St Stephen’s Green South, an area that is outside the remit of the An Bord Pleanala approval for Luas BXD, so it is subjected to part 8 planning approval by the city council.
It is proposed to provide a new 1.75m wide cycle lanes on both sides of east of the green. The lane on park side will continue northbound, and the council says “It is intended that this link will be extended to College Green.” A cycle lane is for the first time included inside the southbound contra-flow bus lane.
There will be be also be some moving about of bicycle parking and the Dublin Bike station, to fit in with the new footpath layout and crossings. Here are details from the council’s report on the changes:
UPDATE: John Carroll, an advisor to the minister, has contacted us via Twitter to say: “That list is not in order of priority. It’s a list of priorities.”
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Leo Varadkar, has released his list of priorities for 2013 — and cycling is down the list.
Varadkar’s department for the first time covers transport, tourism and sport and cycling ticks all three boxes as a mode of transport, a sport, active leisure activity and an attractor for tourists. But cycling comes in 18th of 20th of the minister’s priorities for the year ahead.
The full list below, from a press release issued tonight, shows where cycling stands: