This situation may have come about from our cosseting of #motordom, with its starting trope: ‘hard-pressed-drivers’ & constant official ‘urging’/‘pleading’.
He added there seems to be a "disconnect somewhere between people who are using our roads and their own view".
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Well we have prevented that from happening by ensuring that few can safely walk to school anymore! It’s amazing to drive through smaller towns and cities and see the old walkable school locations and compare them to new campuses that are ONLY accessible via car. #Motordom #dropofflines #CarsKill
Please stop using the phrase “struck by a car” when that vehicle had a driver behind the wheel. Such reportage sanitises the act of driving & enables continuing #motordom of our shared roads.
No sign of the required #VisionZero measures to end this carnage. #motordom continues to be aided & abetted by our road safety agencies ’cause you know hard pressed motorists.
Thank you for your on-point contribution earlier. This government is clueless about better protecting #ActiveTravel users. The ministers in transport are enablers of continuing #motordom.
High vis and helmets do not protect cyclists from unobservant or dangerous drivers. ABS and Polystyrene helms and neon colours that only function in already bright conditions won't stop cyclists being killed or maimed by some 2 ton wankpanzer. Driver training will.
#cycling #ireland #motordom
We @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social do our best along with other bike user groups to head off performative road ‘safety’ actions that come directly from a windscreen view of what constitutes effective measures. Our government ministers & road safety agencies are enablers of continuing #motordom
MoS Canney is another clueless preserver of continuing #motordom, quite ready to 'urge'/'plead'/ with drivers to do better, make U-turns on agreed safety measures and utter ritualistic 'thoughts-and-prayers' after every road tragedy. We know what works so get on with saving lives.
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#motordom shapes public policy in so many ways. #HardPressedMotorists don’t you know?
The entitled #motordom drivers who decide at which speed they will drive on our ‘shared’ roads.
118km/h in a 50km/h zone on the North Circular Road, Dublin 7;
140km/h in a 60km/h zone on the N15 in Mullandrait, Stranorlar, Co Donegal;
167km/h in an 80km/h zone
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All enablers of continuing #motordom & with #COVID19 sequelae increasing the prevalence of #carbrain in the driver cohort. Road safety set to deteriorate.
Many jobs require enhanced ‘child protection’ checks. Is there a rehabilitation ‘balance’ to be made in that arena?
What about returning a gun license after clear and obvious abuse?
Courts largely seeing the world from behind a windscreen, unsurprisingly produces this kind bias :/
#motordom
#distracteddriving is rampant, but let’s not upset #motordom!
In #Ireland we have 113 dead in RTCs to 5/09/25 with c. 1,400 serious injuries (not reported @garda.ie Traffic).
We don't get serious analysis of KSIs other than RSA
summary reports dealing with time of day, season, weather, gender.
Why?
#motordom?
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Every aircraft incident
This has come about simply because most of our main party Cllrs are serving their #motordom constituents.
We mustn’t inflame #motordom remains the guiding principle of ‘road safety’ effort.
Mobility-impaired pedestrian forced onto the roadway by drivers who have illegally occupied the public footway.
“It’s time we faced the truth about road danger”.
#VisionZero is not being achieved due to road safety agencies and Department of Transport prioritising driver convenience rather than road danger reduction. The fear of inflaming #motordom has them trapped in the glare of headlights.
Road danger..
‘Bad parking’ should read illegal parking. Media always adopting #carbrain framing of #motordom transgressions in public realm.
Let the force of impact sink in:
“After the hit-and-run, Shane’s body was found 54 metres from the point where he was hit and his bicycle was found 60 metres away. He died at the scene.”
The driver got away scot free. This is #motordom @kathysheridanit.bsky.social
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Well done Ricky. Such a shame you have to protest inaction and lack of enforcement of everyday illegal activities because of #motonormativity, #motordom & #windscreenblindness
#MakeWayDay
There was a funeral underway at this church yesterday & the driver decided that pavement parking is a good thing even though on-street slots were available. #motordom sees nothing anti-social about this.
For decades, our planning authorities have relied on one-way street systems and gyratories in urban centres to achieve the two most important objectives of #motordom: free-flowing vehicular traffic, and abundant parking space.
The obliteration of utility cycling was of no concern or consequence.
Our Department of Transport has been asleep at the wheel on the inexorable increase in #carbloat. Government is scared to inflame #motordom by acting to curb their sales.
#Visionzero how are you?
#Motordom: A term to describe the longstanding and undue influence that motor and fossil fuel industry have on how public money is spent.
