Excellent piece by @gerherbert.bsky.social in the Independent on Ireland's rising pedestrian death toll on our roads.

Traveling at 50kph between stops vs at 30kph usually results in no time savings but it does make the road dangerous for other users especially vulnerable road users.
If there is no benefit to drivers why is it important to maintain a status quo ?

It's feels like a monumental struggle to make our roads safer. Introduction of Traffic calming and speed limits enforcement is met with anything from ambivalence to hostility.
The q should be flipped- why is it important to drivers to drive fast between sets of traffic lights or stopped traffic.

It's not perfect but it's absolutely fine.. the only slightly annoying thing is when you go to return and there is someone there with three sacks of returns😂🙈

A table and chart depicting the August bank holiday weekend 2024 and 2025 observed traffic speeds on Crumlin road

If you weren't sold on the idea of fixed speed cameras then let me sell you this..
The number of cars observed by Crumlin road traffic counter travelling over 50kph dropped from ~ 18% to 9% on the August Bank holiday Sunday and Monday 2024 to 2025.

@dublincycling.bsky.social @garda.ie

'Shock' as second child dies on roads in recent days The town of Killarney and county of Kerry are in shock following the death of a boy who was struck by a tractor last night, a local councillor has said.

I can't even begin to imagine the loss and sadness being felt by these families. My heart goes out to them. 💔

www.rte.ie/news/munster...

Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

Verona Murphy to put forward a motion of no confidence in self amid rows on independent group playing both sides.

Photo of a cycle lane in Rathmines Dublin with five plastic wands which have been flattened and are lying at different angles along the edge of the cycle lane, with one partially obstructing the lane.

We really need to move on from using plastic wands as cycling infrastructure in Dublin.

Hilarious that no matter where in the world there is a rejigging of resources & priority away from private cars towards mass transit or active travel there is a predictable backlash which starts with mass transit is stinky, unsafe and then quickly progressed to mass transit is for the elites.

All hail the sun 😎🙌
We are sorry we angered you.

A photo of a Ford Ranger Wildtrak- the model of SUV Pickup driven by Moyinhan through a red light and struck 8 y.o Andre Ladeiro

The SUV pickup he was driving when broke the red light was travelling at around 35-37kph.
Before you even consider that the driver broke a red light and that these trucks have hideous blind spots -The vehicle's size and mass make it lethal to pedestrians and cyclists even at slower speeds

'....for him my son was only a leaf, and probably he just stopped because his tyre got deflated.' 😥

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Gigantic SUVs need to go.

they must be ramping up for Marrowbone lane phase 2

Love this!

A screenshot of a tweet from 2021 showing a 80kph speed sign on a rural road in Western Ireland

The same signpost as the first image 4 years later

🎶🎶 I'm still standin' better than I ever did

Hey now thats X/Twitter rhetoric..over here on bluesky we recognize car people are people too😄

Also walking and cycling is a form of transportation and not just a recreational activity.

The most confusing element of these changes is that Ger has almost single-handedly been the main person to inform the public of these pretty significant changes. 👏

Where is public awareness campaign or tv advert etc?

The heat logs briquettes - they are some sort of compressed sawdust/wood combination.

People who bought turf can still burn briquettes and store them in their shed as would have done eith turf. Briquettes burn hotter and produce less smoke.
And people who cut their own turf are still allowed to-only commerical turf cutting has been stopped

(When you hate Nazis but love puns)

Car dependency has been so normalized that most people don't know that putting a child into a car is more dangerous than putting them on a bike.

In fact, car trips are the most dangerous activity that most children partake in.

The response to the electricity outages we need is serious action on emissions, changes to our planning system, and a quicker rollout of renewables everywhere, not burn more turf or whatever

I take your point. However, the eMPTy CyclELANE arguers are mainly railing against the reallocation of space from private car use to a cyclelane or footpath.

They don't really care about the existence of empty remote roads.

It's worth mentioning that
the quality of the infrastructure can be as much of a determining factor as people's physical abilities.
And arguments against allocating adequate space and funds to high quality infrastructure impacts more acutely on those can't use bad infrastructure.

I'm standing on a platform for a tram line.
I'm making a point about people who say cycle lanes and footpaths are empty and take a photo of an empty cyclelane- usually with the expressed aim to undermine funding to pedestrian and cycling infrastructure.

There is a very nice segregated cycle lane on the other side of the canal. (The video was taken from the bridge in this image(

A good reminder that cycle lanes and footpaths don't appear congested as they (mostly) allow people to move through quickly and efficiently.

Video taken from charlemont luas stop on a rainy morning.

You know it's a bad day outside when the cat reverses back in he window.