Irish Cycle Facility of the Week
July 21, 2014: “A cycle path I used recently. You start and end it by teleporting” — we can’t improve on this comment by Eolaí the Artist. We have already covered the N2-N3 link road in...
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Foldable cycle map launched for Dún Laoghaire Rathdown area
A foldable map of cycle routes in the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council area was launched yesterday by the council. The map shows existing and proposed cycle routes. The council said that it highlights “desirable cycle routes...
Limerick City installs bicycle lockers which take €1 coins like shopping trolleys
Limerick City has installed sets of secure bicycle lockers in two city centre car parks, along with public mini-workstations and air pumps. Unlike most bicycle lockers installed to date at Irish train stations or...
Councillors want Dublin bay S2S cycle route finished by 2019
Councillors want Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to construct its section of the Sutton to Sandycove cycle route along Dublin bay by 2019. The Sutton to Sandycove (S2S) campaign group said on Twitter this week thanked councillors for for attempting to push...
Increase in cycling deaths bad news, but focusing on behaviour alone is a disservice
Eight people have now lost their life while cycling in Ireland so-far this year. This is up three deaths from last year. However, as we reported in January, 2013 was a joint low year for deaths of...
Dublin’s bicycle traffic lights should be given headstart now, not in six months
“The City of Copenhagen has it as a standard feature for safety and it has proved effective,” says Danish cycling expert Mikael Colville-Andersen when we talked to him last week about bicycle traffic lights...
Woman on bicycle killed in Limerick collision with truck
A woman on a bicycle was killed in a collision with a truck at rush hour this morning in Limerick. “The collision involving an articulated truck and a cyclist happened at the junction of...
Irish Cycle Facility of the Week
July 7, 2014: Cars parked in the with-flow cycle lane are not a regular occurrence here, at least as far as we’ve seen. And while the garda (police) traffic cones shows that they know...
Dublin City installs bicycle traffic lights without headstart safety function
Mini-bicycle traffic lights — used in other countries to give cyclists a headstart over other traffic — have recently been installed at junctions in Dublin City, without the headstart function turned on. Elsewhere in Europe,...
First look at regional Coke Zero bicycles
Below are some of the first images of the Irish regional bike share bicycles, sponsored by Coca-Cola and due on the streets of Cork, Limerick and Galway later this year. The National Transport Authority...
Cork cyclist dies after hitting bollard
A man in his 40s has died in hospital after hitting a bollard on a bicycle in Cork at rush hour yesterday. Gardai in Watercourse Road in Cork are investigating the fatal road traffic...
