Cycle Bus from Salthill to Cappagh
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Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
Cars are a luxury good. They are INCREDIBLY expensive to buy, maintain and repair. They are a financial trap for low income people. Centering our civilization on them dilutes the tax base, destroys and degrades human settlements and immiserates, sickens and kills so many people.
I want to know what non-car people think of this.
A woman has two cars. A Toyota Camry and a Porsche 911 GT3 (very nice track car.)
Her boyfriend drives the GT3 without her permission, taking it racing through a field. She drives it, feels the suspension is screwed up, takes it to a shop and gets a $2000 bill.
The boyfriend thinks all this is exaggerated and doesnβt want to pay. Who is right?
reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/sβ¦
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
Yes, and this kind of thinking leads to traffic. If you want to avoid traffic, you have to build a transportation SYSTEM with multiple, viable ways to get from point A to B. You also need planning models that enable walking and cycling.
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
Reimagining our road space to support public transport and active travel will help create a more vibrant and people-friendly city. Let's prioritise the collective over individual comfort.
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
π’New research just published on the potential of shared e-bikes to cut transport emissions.
Available open access here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/artiβ¦
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
According to the CSO, only 2,4% of children in Ireland cycle to school. 24% walk, but the majority (55%) get to school by car.
This is a shocking statistic. Our car-centric transport system has taken the freedom away from our children. We are enabling inactivity, not activity.
βCurrently about 2/3rds of all Dutch children walk or bike to school, with 75% of secondary school kids cycling to school. By enabling safe and active travel, #Dutch cities prevent an estimated one million car journeys to school each morning.β β @modacitylife in #CurbingTraffic
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
A developed country isn't a place where the poor drive cars. It's where everybodyβrich and poor alikeβcan use public transit.
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding, yet 66% of people did so when driving. And if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
Vehicle damage claims in Wales fall 20% since speed limit cut to 20mph, says insurer theguardian.com/business/artβ¦
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
Almost half of all car journeys in Ireland are < 6 km - a perfectly cyclable distance, especially with an e-bike.
We need a paradigm shift. We need to enable people to cycle. The health benefits both to our own health and the planet's health would be enormous!
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
Danish government study:
"less than 5% of cyclists break traffic laws while riding yet 66% of motorists do so when driving."
forbes.com/sites/carltonreidβ¦
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
Congratulations to all of the Dublin City Councilors that have been elected/re-elected & those that look like they will be elected that supported so many sustainable transport initiatives in our city.... Including the new city plan.... Good luck for the next 5 years
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
The true danger of polarised 'debate' on cycling infrastructure is that an individual can be led to remove bollards that were put in to make a junction safer, probably because they felt inconvenienced that they've had to slow down or be more cautious. The result, a loss of life.
Cycle lane bollards removed and dumped in a garden ahead of fatal crash in Dublin irishcycle.com/2024/06/05/cyβ¦
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
βStop sprawling outside your city, it will bring you more problems than you can imagine,β said the urban planner who illustrated his talk with a slide that read: βThe bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgottenβ. -Professor Wulf Daseking
A leading urban planner who gained notoriety last year when he described Galway city as looking βlike mouth full of broken teethβ has returned, and his dental diagnosis is not good. advertiser.ie/galway/articleβ¦
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
The other Councillors, some of whom are there for decades, are just diverting the public's attention away from their abject failure to deliver sustainable transport solutions. They promote a Carbon Budget busting Ring Road but offer no alternative sustainable solution.
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
Women are also underrepresented in the transportation space in general ... For many decades, the streets of cities around the world have largely been built around the mobility preferences of men.
bloomberg.com/news/features/β¦
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
Please make sure to go out and vote for candidates tomorrow who will vote to make our roads safer.
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
The street is open.
The car traffic is shut down.
Streets Closed, Sun Up, Craic Ninety ππ We just love Summer in Galway's Westend, when the streets are pedestrianised from 6pm 'til late Mon-Sat and 3pm 'til late on Sundays. Take an evening stroll across the bridges to Galway's Westend soon!
#galway #galwayswestend #ireland
Salthill-Cappagh CycleBus retweeted
Then the bus proceeds to the next stop, and the lane looks empty again (except for the occasional taxi, with or without passengers).
And there's that line of mostly single-occupant cars again, carrying busy important people with better things to be doing than sitting in traffic.
