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:
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
Nearly one fifth of cyclists surveyed on the N11 have been in a collision, according to Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
The survey was carried out on existing cyclists to see if they are happy with recent upgrades to the route and if there any issues that should be addressed in future works to the road. Council staff stopped 198 cyclists at the morning and afternoon rush hours in November last year.
More than 2,600 cyclists were brought to court for road traffic offences committed between 2003 and 2011, according to national data released to this paper by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
The release came with a warning that the numbers of cyclists prosecuted is likely to be higher given the way the data is collected, including offences by cyclists which are common to other road users.
In 2011, over 590 charges and summons were recorded – which is the highest on record over the nine years of data released.
Ireland now has two design manuals for urban streets relating to cycling — Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets and the National Cycle Manual. The former seems to call … Read more