Joan of Contention 😷#Rothar Question: What gobshite thought this was a good idea?
https://www.dublincity.ie/news/dublin-city-council-introduces-cycle-lockers
Top tip: if you cycle around Dublin 4 during some "crucial" rugball game home fixture, you'll have the place mostly to yourself.
Thanks to everyone for the city route suggestions! (Still plenty more to get through, too.)
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TriploidTreeDoes anyone know where to find information on the Tolka Valley Greenway? I can only find details on the Tolka Estuary Greenway but not the Valley. Google maps recommends it as a cycle route but OSMand avoids it entirely. Is it really a Greenway or is it hoaching with kissing gates?
Dublin #rothar enjoyers! Does anyone have any favourite routes round Dublin city? (Anything from short quick spins up to around 30km.) Share your faves!
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📢 Call for research participants! 📢
Are you a parent of school-going children, or a teacher, in Dublin city? Then you are needed to support cycling data for Dublin city schools.
This relates to a research project commissioned by Dublin City Council's Active Travel Team. Find out more at:
https://www.dublincycling.com/cycling/are-you-parent-schoolgoing-children-or-teacher-dublin-city
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cc @rothar @dublincyclingcampaign
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A huge thank you to the lovely people at Rothar in Phibsboro (https://rothar.ie/) for minding and fixing my bike while it was in the bikespidéal. 🏥
A huge thanks also to the Rediscovery Centre (https://www.rediscoverycentre.ie/) pop up bike-service in work, who spotted the issue in the first place. 🙈
A new wheel (replacing the worn rim that did *not* explode while I was out cycling), and we're all go! 😀
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Question for #Rothar and #BikeTooter peeps: are there any examples from anywhere of cycling advocates successfully pushing back against/overturning policies to make helmets and high viz mandatory in law?
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#Cycling #MastoDaoine #RoadSafety #RoadViolence #StreetsAreForPeople #BikeNite
My bike: an eight year-old, inexpensive, basic cyclocross bike from Halfords. 🚲
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@LovesTha Here in Ireland, there are existing laws governing the use of bike lights (and governing e-assist/motor-powered vehicles, the latter essentially prohibited).
The only thing not the topic of lobbying is driver behaviour, despite the data on road safety/violence clearly showing the source of danger on the roads.
The union is talking about all cycling, not only e-bikes.
Pretty much everyone cycling is a worker.
There is zero empirical evidence that high viz improves safety: all that this groundless approach does is place the burden onto vulnerable road users of other people's driving behaviours.
All this, while lights are already mandatory under law for use on bikes between dusk and dawn.