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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Aug 8

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 ?

Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

Active Travel Please! @activetraveltt.bsky.social · Aug 8

If my choice to drive fast through a neighbourhood removes your child’s freedom to cross the road without fear, those freedoms are in conflict - and a fair system should reconcile them so everyone enjoys an equal share.
#MobilityIsEquity
www.eta.co.uk/news/why-we-...

Why we tolerate motor-traffic danger and pollution | ETA

We treat road danger as normal. This piece maps the ethics - equal freedom, motornormativity, Vision Zero - and shows how Safe System design can replace blame with shared responsibility and safer stre...

www.eta.co.uk

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Aug 7

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😂🙈

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

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

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Apr 8

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...

'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.

www.rte.ie

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Apr 2

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.

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Mar 26

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

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I BIKE Dublin @ibike.ie · Jan 13

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

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.

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Feb 19

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.

Jessie Singer @jessiesinger.bsky.social · Feb 19

in his statement "cancelling" congestion pricing, sean duffy calls people who ride the subway "an elite few" and i just feel as a communication professional that they gotta decide if they're going with that or crime-ridden drug den homeless shelter

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Feb 19

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

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Feb 15

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

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

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Feb 15

'....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.

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Feb 13

they must be ramping up for Marrowbone lane phase 2

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Feb 12

Love this!

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Feb 12

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

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

Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Feb 6

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

Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Feb 6

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

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Jan 31

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?

Geraldine Herbert @gerherbert.bsky.social · Jan 31

Just to clarify some of the confusion around this
Speed Limit Changes Incoming 🚨

🛑 What’s changing?
➡️ Rural local roads: 80km/h → 60km/h (from Feb 7)
➡️ Urban areas & estates: Down to 30km/h (later in 2025)
➡️ National secondary roads: 100km/h → 80km/h

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Jan 30

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

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Jan 30

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

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Jan 30

(When you hate Nazis but love puns)

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Regina Burstein 🚲 🚈 🌳 @mplsfietser.bike · Jan 29

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.

Jen @envirojen.bsky.social · Jan 29

Aaaand it’s time to leave the local cycling Facebook group again.

A Facebook comment screenshot: “It should be illegal to cycle with a child. I love cycling and I love children-this is just not safe or fair to them. It’s shocking child abuse to put them at risk like that. They don’t understand and have no power to stop it.”

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · Jan 30

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

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Jan 30

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.

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · Jan 30

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.

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