On the last Friday of every month there’s a Critical Mass bike ride through Dublin city centre. It’s a form of direct action or protest about reclaiming the streets, and also to highlight the dangers that cyclists face on the city streets. By riding together as a big group, there is safety in numbers The […]
Since the new Lotts & Co supermarket opened on Rathfarnham Road a couple of months ago, there’s been a lot of dangerous parking outside by customers and delivery drivers. Well, thanks to Dublin City Council, as of this morning there’s new plastic bollards protecting the cycle lane. They start not far from the Terenure crossroad, […]
I took this photo a few weeks ago on a Sunday evening in Dublin city centre. These communal bins belong to a nearby apartment block, and someone has decided to block the majority of the cycle lane with them, forcing people on bikes out into the general traffic lane. Before the cycle lane protection bollards […]
This is a typical cycle lane in Dublin city centre. It consists of a bit of paint at the side of the road. Technically it’s an offence for motor vehicles to drive or park in a cycle lane, but enforcement is very rare, and all too often motorists stray into these painted cycle lanes without […]
When you think of a cyclist, which of the two following images comes to mind? The figure on the left is someone cycling as a sport, and the figure on the right is someone cycling as transport. Can you see the differences between the two? All too often people think of cycling only in terms […]
