Cian Ginty 
The above images shows an ad campaign run awhile ago by Metro, LA’s transport authority.
It’s aim is to drive the message home that cyclists sometimes do need to keep away from the kerb, they can’t always use bike lanes, and that they need to move out into the middle of a lane (aka “cycling in the middle of the road”) so they can switch lanes and to turn.
Would an ad campaign like this be useful in Ireland?
This somehow passed us by: Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council recently held a public consultation on their extensive draft Cycle Network Map (PDF). It’s from the county’s Cycle Network Review and designed to show the public current cycle routes and planned ones.
There’s three types of routes shown on the map:
City councils in Cork, Galway and Limerick are push ahead with planning for the regional bike schemes
Two of the three of the respective councils have published proposed station locations and photomontages of their schemes today and yesterday:
Among loads of plans for traffic calming, and using traffic calming laws, Galway City Council are pushing apparent cycling unfriendly “traffic management” changes to a key entry point to the city centre from its western suburbs.
The first image below shows what a section of Father Griffin Road in Galway City could look like. The road is a key route into and around the city centre from places such as Salthill, which has 9% cycling modal share.
Garda press release: Gardai at Blackrock are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic collision at Frasctai Road, Blackrock, Co Dublin at approximately 8.40am this morning 15th August 2013. … Read more
We recently covered details of NUI Galway’s bike hire system (read more here), and the bikes arrived on campus today:
An investigation by Cycling in Dublin has revealed how the advertising industry’s self-regulation body deals differently with motoring and cycling complaints. Email records released to this publication under environmental freedom … Read more
If our story about 2,600 cyclists being brought to court between 2003 and 2011 was not enough, below is visual proof that cyclists do get stop by the gardai and on-the-spot … Read more