Over the coming days we will celebrate our first Imbolc/St Brigid’s Day public holiday, the first Irish public holiday named after a woman, and a range of activities have been organised countrywide to acknowledge the critical role that women play and have played in Irish history, culture and society. Neither the goddess Brigit nor St Brigid had a bicycle, of course, but we like to … Continue reading Bike It Like Brigid
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As we launch ourselves into another year’s campaigning, we have taken some time to reflect on the breadth and depth of advocacy work that Cyclist.ie carried out last year. In this article, we look back on 2022 through the frame of our 2021-26 Cyclist.ie Strategy (with our six strategic aims shown below) and consider how much progress we have made. In particular, we highlight where … Continue reading Reflecting on Cyclist.ie’s Work in 2022 and Looking Ahead to 2023
2023 is a big year for cycling campaigning. Cyclist.ie will mark its 15th birthday, Dublin Cycling Campaign its 30th birthday, while the European Cyclists’ Federation will have 40 candles on its campaigning cake. It will be an especially significant year for DCC and Cyclist.ie as we completely rework our governance structures and become a much stronger campaigning force. Related to this is the development of … Continue reading 2023 – Big Birthdays for Cycling Campaigns
Cyclist.ie has been successful with an Erasmus+ funding application to the European Commission, where we are one of seven partners collaborating on a brand new and exciting three year project. The name of it is Generations Pedaling for Inclusion and Climate Action or, in its abbreviated form, GenCy4In&ClimA. For those less familiar with it, Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and … Continue reading Cyclist.ie Taking Part in Erasmus+ Project – Volunteers Sought
Cyclist.ie made a submission today, Thu 12 Jan 2023, on the Options Selection Phase of the Development of the Lough Derg Greenway in County Tipperary. Information on the project can be read here https://loughderggreenway.ie/. You can read our submission below. Note that the Options Selections Phase, in terms of its position in the sequencing of phases of the project, can be understood from the following … Continue reading Lough Derg Greenway – Options Selection – Cyclist.ie Submission
Cyclist.ie welcomes the publication of the Climate Action Plan 2023 (CAP23) with Chapter 15 (pages 183-212) dealing with transport. We observe generally that this document is a synthesis of many already-announced government commitments in the sustainable transport domain. However, Cyclist.ie notes and welcomes that CAP23 targets have been revised to meet the higher level of ambition (compared to CAP21), including a 20% reduction in total … Continue reading Climate Action Plan 2023 – Cyclist.ie (Interim) Response
2022 has been another busy one for Cyclist.ie. This year we have already delivered close to 100 submissions to local and national authorities on various transport schemes – and have advanced campaigns on many fronts through our engagements with politicians, officials and the media. In another article, we will provide more details of this work and of the year’s campaigns and achievements. In 2022 we … Continue reading Cyclist.ie Network Expands to 35 Member Groups
Cyclist.ie made the submission below to the National Transport Authority (NTA) on Friday 18 November 2022 in respect to the public consultation on “CycleConnects”. This was all about the proposed cycle networks in both rural and urban areas lying outside of the Greater Dublin Area (as shown in the light green shaded counties of the map below). Cyclist.ie wishes to thank its many volunteers who … Continue reading CycleConnects – Cyclist.ie Submission