Brian Shannon

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Recovering former car owner. Founder of Share Our Cars Belfast ( T@Belfast_Cars )

All views my own. he/him

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A leaflet from the early 1990s by #London Buses Ltd. promoted bus usage to tackle traffic #congestion and pollution and the 'Red Routes' scheme to keep the #traffic moving.

Mention that driver-only buses do not hold up traffic as ⅔ of bus passengers use passes or pre-paid tickets.
#transport #urbanism #history #TFL #travel

#Starling Bank announced as first sponsor of the Greater #Manchester #bike hire scheme

#Transport for Greater Manchester secures biggest commercial sponsorship in its history, with Starling Bank announced as bike hire scheme’s first #sponsor
https://news.tfgm.com/press-releases/9b774908-7bf0-4032-816b-b36c582bad82/starling-bank-announced-as-first-sponsor-of-the-greater-manchester-bike-hire-scheme
#urbanism #cycling #travel

Starling Bank announced as first sponsor of the Greater Manchester bike hire scheme

Transport for Greater Manchester
Study reveals how unconscious bias leads us to neglect negative externalities of driving. You may call it ‘car brain,’ but this research team calls it ‘motonormativity.’
#Urbanism #Traffication #thewaroncars
VIA @verge
@TheWarOnCars
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579510/car-brain-motornormativity-study-ian-walker
Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving

A new study coins the term “motornormativity” to describe the unconscious biases people form around the societal ills and inequities of automobile driving.

The Verge
@ChrisMurphy Hey Chris, just double checking this new account is yours and not an imposter
https://twitter.com/chrismurphy2023/status/1700885316029002127?t=TmzKHucbTxcXKw-_c0dbYg&s=19
chrismurphy202 on X

locked out of my original account, unlikely to recover :/

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Ciaran Cannon TD notes that the feasibility study for twin-tracking the Athenry to Galway rail line is now two years overdue, and has been tied up in the All-Island Strategic Rail Review, which itself is overdue and cannot be published until there is an executive in Stormont.

And today we are hearing that restoration of the executive has been postponed for another year.

I despair! 😫

#ClimateEmergency #SustainableTransport #Galway #NIExecutive

https://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2023-01-31a.32#g83

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business: 31 Jan 2023: Dáil debates (KildareStreet.com)

A site about the Houses of the Oireachtas that you can actually follow.

IrishCycle.com -- Cycling Symposium to take place in Cork this Friday and Saturday

The Socio-Cycle Cycling Symposium, with over 30 speakers, will take place this Friday and Saturday, February 3rd to 4th, in Cork City. Dr Meredith Glaser from the Urban Cycling Institute at the Uni…

IrishCycle.com

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TACKLING THE COST-OF-CYCLING EVERYDAY IN JANUARY
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• 11% off individual entry
• 15% off Stena Line UKIE ferries from GB to NI/ROI
• 20% off group entry (5+)
• 20% off Lap 17 jersey
#lapthelough #cycul #Lap17 #embraceagiantspirit #cycliung @[email protected] @[email protected]

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LapTheLough/status/1616385541347360769

Lap the Lough on Twitter

“TACKLING THE COST-OF-CYCLING EVERYDAY IN JANUARY ––– • 11% off individual entry • 15% off Stena Line UKIE ferries from GB to NI/ROI • 20% off group entry (5+) • 20% off Lap 17 jersey #lapthelough #cycul #Lap17 #embraceagiantspirit #cycliung @DiscoverNI @StenaLineUKIE”

Twitter

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It's one thing to have knowledge, but quite another to know how to convey it.

This guy is one of the greatest minds alive today.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LondonEconomic/status/1619986159492542464

The London Economic on Twitter

“It's one thing to have knowledge, but quite another to know how to convey it. This guy is one of the greatest minds alive today.”

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