Posts Tagged ‘Transport’

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, [...]

Not There Yet

(Via John Breslin) An amusing animated short on the Irish transport system mess.

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…

A brief day in court

Interesting post by the Swords Express boss on their brief day in court after setting with the Minister for Transport…
So, my solicitors and I spent a day in Court with Swords Express, the public transport company I started to provide decent, fast transport to the people of Ireland’s biggest town last year. You only go [...]