Posts Tagged ‘bicycle’

Want to promote cycling in Ireland? Marketing it, and stop the scaremongering

Mikael Colville-Andersen, who runs Copenhagenize.com and Copenhagen Cycle Chic. In his own words: “The main point with my blogs is that if cycling is to be an everyday activity then it can easily be done in everyday clothes, like millions of Europeans do every day”.
In a post about the Velo-City conference, he points to a [...]

Cyclists, motorists, climate change, and obesity

There’s been a good few anti-cyclist letters appearing in Irish newspapers in the last few years, it looks like it prompted this rant by Trevor White on cycling and motorists, note the quote from a Dutch ambassador to Ireland:
Motorists are remarkably impertinent. Despite constituting a very real threat to their own welfare, to pedestrians, [...]

Dublin’s cycle tracks

Nearly forgot to mention this here, a mixture of what I’ve written else where on this: Documenting Dublin’s cycle tracks/lanes/paths is something I’ve been thinking about his for a while…

George Lee “number one fan” of Segway

- Old tech can be better than new
Journalist George Lee apparently loves Segway. He talked about the “green” “commuting” vehicles when on the Cafe on RTE2, the Evening Heard quoted him as saying he’s its “number one fan”, and at the it@Cork conference he went around the crowd on one and started [...]