Good crowd outside the Dáil despite the weather to tell @Shane_RossTD, and @EndaKennyTD‘s government, to #allocate4cycling pic.twitter.com/9EjmtPYujn
— Oisín Coghlan (@OisinCoghlan) February 22, 2017
This afternoon.
Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Cyclists protest for more of the transport budget be allocated to cycling infrastructure in Dublin. Campaigners claim about 1% of the transport budget is allocated to cycling and they are asking for at least 10%.
They say that EU recommends 20% be given to cycling from transport budgets and would like to see “more advanced traffic lights, better parking, segregated cycling lanes to name but a few”.
FIGHT!
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As if taking over every other arterial route into Dublin isn’t enough for them
relax babe
It’s getting so poor martyred motorists can’t bring their large, noisy motorised metal boxes with four empty seats and spewing toxic gasses anywhere these days, Joe.
fierce terrible, joe.
Damn them and their healthy, fast, green mode of transport, how dare they come up with a better idea than the car.
Investment in pretty much all public transport in Dublin has been dismal in the last decade.
Cycle lanes along the coast and the Dodder should be pretty easy to install. Yet various plans have slouched through the different local authorities’ processes for years with quite ludicrous price tags attached. Read here for a cycle lane costing €2,500 PER METER! (http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/work-on-5m-clontarf-section-of-dublin-bay-cycle-path-starts-1.2218425)
The cyclists should really be protesting at various local authority offices around Dublin. This is one of the few areas where local authorities have power, yet they manage to use it extremely badly.
Anyone remember Phil Hogan’s reform of local government?
Somehow he managed to make it even worse.
You have to admit, it’d be pretty funny if a car ploughed into them
cringe
the roads are only so big .. like along the canal and stuff, ya can’t make that bigger, its just the roads we have. also, arent they making the whole dame street area carless? lads its a small small city with way too many people, its guna be congested with cars, buses and bikes, ya cant go protesting saying that bikes are more important than the rest, yis all have to share. people have to drive in from the suburbs and further for work, they cant cycle up, theyres always guna be cars.
Nobody’s saying that bikes are more important than the rest. They’re just looking for spending on cycling facilities that is more proportional to the amount of journeys that are made by bicycle. They just want to not be treated as less important than the rest.
Public transport from the suburbs. Carparks in the suburbs for public transport users from farther out.
It’s not an overpopulated city, it’s an underpopulated city. Driving into the city centre 5 days a week in a gas guzzling, oversized box is antisocial behaviour when there are alternatives available.
Narrow streets is an argument for reduced car traffic, not car traffic monopolies.
+1
+1
+1. Public transport is the way to go.
+1
Very well said
Besides the cycle lanes are in an appalling condition unsurfaced in many cases and poorly maintained as well as designed like a cat litter box
+1 15p
Well said.
+1
Most drivers do not actually need a car though, unless carrying cargo/luggage which would prove too difficult to take on public transport, so for most drivers they only need to drive as far as public transport begins, the obsession with taking the car is mostly down to two things, greed and laziness.
Does anyone living in the city centre really need a car to drive to the shops, bring kids to school so on so on. Its unnecessary.
For a big shop?
Delivery or walk with a trolley.
Take a taxi.
If you lived within two or three miles of your nearest supermarket, you could get a taxi home with your shopping twice a week, and you still not be paying half what you would be doing the same journey with your own car* (when you factor in insurance, tax, depreciation of the asset).
*if this was your primary purpose for owning a car
Yea pay for taxis don’t bother fixing the public transport network..
Typical pro fine gael drivel from Rob G
I know you’re just being an idiot for the crack, but.. use public transport to get there but if you’re doing a big shop, getting the bags to a stop/station may be difficult and take up lots of space on the bus/train, making a taxi the more efficient and sensible solution.
some of those pictures looks like scenes from the RTE angelus videos!! Bong Bong!
Or The Smiths “stop me…” video
Deliveroo, that better not be my package that I’ve been waiting for all morning.
They should invent lights that taser cyclists when they break them on cycle lanes. They ALL do it. Except me, obv. I only do it when the pedestrians have crossed, which makes it totally ok.
A lot of cyclists are total d-bags. More so than drivers, I find. And I both drive and cycle. And yes, it’s the lycra men who’re the worst. Along with young fellas with no helmets and earphones.
The lycra folk are on the roads a lot more than you, they tend to be older, wiser, experienced and safer for that reason, I rarely see them break the law.
However the moment anyone gets onto a Dublin Bike…. all laws are forgotten.
Good point. Dublin Bike cyclists break my heart.
However, how do you know how much I’m on the road? I’m on the road, like, the WHOLE time.
+1 Dublin Bikes are the worst thing to ever happen to regular cyclists. I, for one, advocate some kind of Road Rash style baitiing them out of your way.
To be fair, most DB users are fat EU millennials working in Silicon Docks or tourists, sorry language students. So the law doesn’t apply to them anyway. They believe.
I fully agree, being both cyclist and motorist.
Bad behaviour by cyclists is indeed very annoying. It is not however, in the scheme of things, particularly dangerous though.
True enough
wonder if yer man with the camera on his head and youtube hero turned up?
Nah, that bus driver eventually got him.
would the car drivers who object to me cycling in the city prefer me to leave it at home and use my suv instead.
Group of people who do not obey the law want new laws to protect them.
Clowns…
Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile.
+1
That’s quite a tarring brush you have there, Daily Mail reader by any chance?
hey 15p guna is the irish for dress.
No it’s not.
I’m a WOMAN on my OWN!!
yes it is
No, “gúna” is the Irish for dress.
Give them 10 years and they’ll all be moaning about the ineffective health system.
The more they cycle… the more their lungs need to absorb air, the more dirty diesel fumes they’re taking in… so unfortunately, government policy with low motor taxation on diesels since 2008 has the added caveat of giving all these urban cyclists some major health issues into the future…
… although.. technically, we’re all doomed, as all major cities are surrounded by ring-roads where the demon poison fumes are burned off the special DPF filters and thus blown across the suburban population for good measure…
so no one escapes the duuuurty particles… so stress not… Alzheimers has been linked to a magnetic particle from diesel fumes that attaches to cells in the brain… so these cyclists won’t even recall asking for any new laws in no time.
Wow give this man an RTÉ comedy show
Id like to see more DB racks in places like artane glasnevin clontarf terenure HX etc.. all a 10 min cycle into town. And the peeps driving into town are one of 3 things. 1. Snobs who dont like busses. 2. availing of parking in town (too much of that too) 3. living in way out so have to drive. Suburban park and ride is a good idea. cars are littered around dart stations all day with commuters.
I’m don’t like buses so I cycle instead. I am a snob but that’s not why I don’t like buses.
no deluded youre wrong.
No, tommy I think you’ll find he is right.
gúna = dress (and please do take note of the fada)
guna = ?? nothing as far as I can tell
I think it means ‘gun’.
no mildred you are mistaken
whoops – you used the wrong one of your multiple accounts
if bicyclists didnt want to be going under people’s wheels then they should stay up on the footpaths where they belong, or pay road tax.
* sigh *
There’s no such thing as road tax.
no i didnt , i am right
Cyclists are full of it. Pay a road tax.
Here they are again with fake news and outrage:
Why a viral video of a cyclist’s revenge on catcallers may not be all it seems
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/22/why-a-viral-video-of-a-cyclists-revenge-on-catcallers-may-not-be-all-it-seems
#TheresNoSuchThingAsRoadTax