Deconstructing the truckers’ defence (part one)
COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Verona Murphy, president of the Irish Road Hauliers’ Association, is very good at her job. When the cyclist fatality figure passed the total for 2016 in the … Read more
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Deconstructing the truckers’ defence (part two)
COMMENT & ANALYSIS: While the phenomenon of ‘Driver as Victim’ in the below case is seen in an argument made by the president of the Road Haulage Association, it is frequently … Read more
Mirror, mirror on the internet, who’s the most entitled road user of them all?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Listen long enough and you’ll hear (or read) it: some comment somewhere about how entitled cyclists are. We’re not talking entitlement in a good way, in the … Read more
Sploodge Monsters should not design your house
COMMEMT & ANALYSIS: Picture this: it’s the year 3200. About a hundred years ago an alien race, the Sploodge Monsters, started settling on earth. They’d engaged an extremely effective public … Read more
The problem with “insert loved one here” cycling infrastructure campaign
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: In June last year the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain launched a campaign aimed at raising awareness of the sorry state of cycling infrastructure. They provide an … Read more
The Curious Case of the Myth-Shift
“So what’s your research about?” “Ahem, it’s a bit complicated to explain, but it has to do with media and cyclist safety and uptake.” “Oh, so… like how cyclists endanger … Read more
Scofflaw cyclists: All in the mind?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS: We all know laws such as Murphy’s: “Anything that can go wrong, will”. Less well known is Muphry’s law: “If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, … Read more
Parking is an act of communication, a statement of how much you care
COMMENT & ANALYSIS: You may think that a set of traffic lights communicates no more than whose turn it is to proceed. If so, you’re mistaken. Communication is embedded in … Read more
