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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 2d

Ooooooh look at that chamfered precast kerbing

Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 5d

Join us for our October public meeting!

We’ll be celebrating the many ways that cycling can help volunteers to get involved in their communities. All welcome!

📆 This Thursday Oct 9
⏰ 7.30pm
📍 Academy Plaza Hotel, 10-14 Findlater Pl, off O'Connell St. D01 X2X0

www.dublincycling.com/events/octob...

October public meeting: Celebrating pedal-powered volunteers

Join us for our October public meeting where we’ll be celebrating the many ways that cycling can help volunteers to get involved in their communities.

www.dublincycling.com

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richmondroadra.bsky.social @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 5d

Abuse is not a traffic calming measure! 📢

The Road User Hierarchy: Still a ladder we're at the bottom of! 🪜

Please join us if you can!
@ibike.ie @dublincommuters.bsky.social @dublincycling.bsky.social

#RichmondRoad #Dublin
#liveablestreets #streetsforpeople

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 6d

RSA, Department of Justice and Ministers Canny and O’Callaghan need to step up and start constructing a functioning road traffic enforcement system

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 6d

“This is shocking and it just shows how broken the system is. It’s a shambles.”

- Susan Gray of PARC

Only 4% of learner drivers disqualified since 2023 have handed in their licences

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Only 4% of learner drivers disqualified since 2023 have handed in their licences

Road safety campaigners says system is a ‘shambles’ as just 211 out of 5,310 banned drivers have surrendered their permits

www.irishtimes.com

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 9d

For sure @ghish.bsky.social enforcement is critical in all this. And we (along with the other groups involved in this 30 km/h campaign) absolutely do advocate for better (MUCH better) enforcement. We can have both, with just a little wisdom and political will!

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 9d

Good arguments made in this @thejournal.ie piece by @ciarancannon.bsky.social

www.thejournal.ie/prev/6832794...

Opinion: Those outraged by a €100k bike shed should look at the annual cost of renting out car park spaces

We have completely normalised investment in congestion, pollution and the continuation of car-first planning, writes Ciarán Cannon.

www.thejournal.ie

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 10d

Minister Canny’s U-turn on safer urban speeds risks lives and life-changing injuries. It cannot be let stand.

We were proud to visit the Dáil today at the invitation of Ciaran Ahern TD
to send the Minister our simple message: No delays. No excuses. Implement the law now.

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Kevin Burke @kevburkeie.bsky.social · 12d

Ciaran Ferrie's piece in @irishexaminer.bsky.social nails the Govts capitulation on the Speed Limit Review. Identifying the urban roads that should be 50km (arterial) and 30km (everywhere else) is a relatively simple technical exercise with a small bit of guidance. Absolute cowardice.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 19d

“The energy was absolutely insane!” says Dom Whiting — the DJ on a bike — as he returns to Dublin this Saturday

Dom Whiting, who attracts large crowds of people cycling, scooting and more along with him as he DJs on a tricycle, is returning to Dublin this Saturday, September 27th. Whiting said in…

“The energy was absolutely insane!” says Dom Whiting — the DJ on a bike — as he returns to Dublin this Saturday

Dom Whiting, who attracts large crowds of people cycling, scooting and more along with him as he DJs on a tricycle, is returning to Dublin this Saturday, September 27th. Whiting said in a Facebook post: "Ireland Ireland Ireland!!! Drum & Bass On The Bike is heading to Dublin this Saturday, 27th September, starting at 14:00hrs from Grangegorman Lower Dublin, Ireland."

irishcycle.com

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 22d

www.thejournal.ie/four-pedestr...

Road deaths are going down - but more cyclists and pedestrians are being killed. Why?

The number of pedestrian and cyclist deaths is now at the highest level in six years.

www.thejournal.ie

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you @mikemckillen.bsky.social 😊

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 23d

We’ll be inviting all TDs and Senators to meet our supporters. We’ll also be inviting the media to witness and report on the issue. Please come along if you can.

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 23d

In 2023, experts unequivocally recommended reduction of urban default speed limits from the present 50km/h to a new safer 30km/h.

But the Department of Transport is now reneging on that, leaving it up to individual Local Authorities to apply 30km/h only on selected streets.

Saving Lives on our Roads: Join Love 30 at the Dáil on 2 October! | Love 30

The Love30 Campaign supported by Dublin Commuter Coalitionand 9 other supporting groups will be presenting to interested TDs and Senators in the Oireachtas at 10am on Thursday 2nd October 2025, on the...

https://www.love30.ie/saving-lives-our-roads-join-love-30-dáil-2-october

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 23d

Join us with Love 30 at the Dáil to defend 30km/h speed limits!

⭕️ Stop the U-turn on safer speeds
📍 Outside Dáil, Kildare Street D2
📆 2 October
⏰ 10.30am - 11.30am

30km/h limits SAVE LIVES. We need to stop this U-turn and YOU can help on Oct 2.

www.love30.ie/saving-lives...

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 25d

@dublincitycouncil.bsky.social wonder if you guys know what’s going on here..?

Liam of the Jungle @tigger1962.bsky.social · 26d

Warning to those using the westbound cycle lane from Samuel Beckett bridge. Barriers have been placed in the cycle lane making it almost .5m narrower. #Spéirghorm @dublincycling.bsky.social @irishcycle.com

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Campaign's Public Meeting is TOMORROW NIGHT. This month we're all about organising cycle events

⏰ 7.30pm
📍 Academy Plaza Hotel, Findlater Pace, D01 X2X0

We'll have presentations from experienced organisers on what to consider for your event, be it a local cycle, demo, or critical mass protest.

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wider C2CC, anyone…?

Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Embankment cycleway (CS3) in London was purposefully built to be wider than was usual in order to future proof it.

Some said it would hardly be used.

Now there’s a decent case for widening it further.

Induced demand is real.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky. Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.” Via @wired.com

Urbanists too.

Check out #UrbanistShoutOut.

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

arstechnica.com

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · Aug 28

So on the Royal Canal, Council tell us the last section (Croker to Drumcondra Rd) will open...

📆 Monday 8th September 🚲

Time TBC. They've had delays in material delivery to site and some finishing works are taking longer than expected and are apologising for the delay.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · Jul 1

Have you used the Traffic Watch online reporting system? Let us know how it worked for you here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 27

It’s still amazing to me that we’ve basically let ourselves be tricked into buying that THIS is what “freedom” looks like. #CarDependency

Highway filled with slow moving, bumper-to-bumper cars

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Irish Cycling Campaign on Crowe Roads Policing review...

"We have long called for effective enforcement ... To learn that there is a minority number of Roads Policing Unit members openly ignoring offences ... is deeply disturbing."

www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/we-are-shock...

We are shocked by the findings of the Crowe Report into Roads Policing

We in the Irish Cycling Campaign are shocked at the revelations published in the recent Crowe Review into Garda Roads Policing. We have long called for effective enforcement of the rules of the road. ...

www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks @mhantain.bsky.social we’ll get it sorted

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · Aug 10

Dublin City Council wants us to ‘be sound’, but safe behaviour starts with safe streets. Instead, we get PR stunts, victim-blaming, and cycle lanes straight out of a sadistic parody.

Read my take on their recent campaigns on my Substack.

You want us to be sound, Dublin City Council? Then build safe streets.

Dublin City Council’s latest campaigns willfully miss the point—safe behaviour starts with safe infrastructure.

open.substack.com

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