Grangegorman bollards working as designed — calming streets and enabling children to cycle to school in our capital city. Thanks to @DubCityCouncil, more of this please. https://t.co/7J9AQ28xJC
— IrishCycle.com (@IrishCycle) September 1, 2020
This morning.
Grangegorman, Dublin 7.
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Great to see, proof if ever, that if the safe infrastructure is there, people will use it.
Unless they’ve put a roof over it people will not still be using it in the lashing rain in December — but it will still be there, windswept and abandoned by all but the hardy few hobbyists who don’t have to look presentable or even be dry for their work, and the that’s the main thing, isn’t it?
How about a metro system AS WELL, unelected City Council decision-makers? Oh, that’s right, you don’t actually control the transport for the city — the only tool at your disposal is road markings to restrict car traffic and parking in the city. So when people who can’t or won’t cycle in the rain find it too expensive and time-consuming to drive into town, and they just go to some soulless big box mall in the suburbs instead, and town slowly dies (and with it your rates base) exactly the way it has already happened in dozens of other cities, presumably you’ll apologise then, and say, yeah, well, with the benefit of hindsight, we should have built the metro AS WELL, Sorrreeeee, right?
Jesus, someone didn’t get their coffee today!
It actually rains very rarely in Dublin (where this picture was taken, obviously). Less than in Copenhagen and Amsterdam even, and we know how many kids (and adults!) cycle there. https://irishcycle.com/myths/myths-weather/
I agree on one point, though, the Metro needs building ASAP – but ASWELL as cycling infrastructure, not INSTEAD of it
Some more interesting perspectives here:
https://www.shanelynn.ie/wet-rainy-cyling-commute-in-ireland-with-wunderground-and-python/