Earlier today, Tuesday 30 November 2021, Dr. Damien Ó Tuama, National Cycling Coordinator with Cyclist.ie and An Taisce presented at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment and Climate Action on the topic of electric vehicles. Also presenting were Dr. Colm Byrne from Irish Doctors for the Environment, Brian Cooke, Director General of SIMI (Society of the Irish Motor Industry), and Marguerite Sayers and John Byrne … Continue reading Cyclist.ie Presents at Oireachtas Committee on Electric Vehicles
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Tuesday, 14 December 2021 – 8pm online The Dublin Cycling Campaign CLG Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, 14 December 2021 at 8pm. The Dublin Cycling Campaign CLG is the legal entity under which Cyclist.ie and Dublin Cycling Campaign operate. The AGM is open to fully paid-up members of the Dublin Cycling Campaign and Cyclist.ie. You can register for the event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XNoO4A3CTLmO9lLVBzjcqQ Agenda: Approve Minutes of 2020 AGM Review Financial Accounts Provide an … Continue reading Dublin Cycling Campaign CLG AGM
Streets 4 All NI’s second webinar will take place on Thursday 25th November 2021 from 8pm to 9pm. In this webinar you’ll hear perspectives from Germany on the cycling industry, cycling advocacy, and progress in liveability, and from Northern Ireland on issues around transport and infrastructure development that affect the mobility of disabled people and older people. Burkhard Stork is the Managing Director / CEO … Continue reading Streets 4 All NI – Webinar #2 – 25 Nov 2021
Is Monaghan County Council the first Local Authority in Ireland to publish an up-to-date Walking & Cycling Strategy? We think so, and we commend the Council on doing so, and in leading the way for other rural Local Authorities to follow. Like many small counties, Monaghan has very low active travel numbers as shown in this graphic (from page 22 of the strategy): The strategy, … Continue reading Monaghan County Council Talks the Talk!
Press Release – for Immediate Use In the lead-up to COP26, and the World Health Organisation’s call for more cycling to improve health through increased physical activity and improved air quality [1], a newly-formed Active Travel Coalition is today seeking urgent action on the rollout of safe cycle routes nationwide. The Active Travel Coalition is bringing together health, medical, environmental and cycling campaigners to call … Continue reading Active Travel Coalition calls for Faster Rollout of Cycle Routes
Clare County Council is currently progressing Section 1 of the West Clare Railway Greenway project. This aims to provide a recreational greenway between the towns of Kilrush and Kilkee, following the route of the former West Clare Railway where feasible. The West Clare Railway between Kilrush and Kilkee closed in 1961 and since then the main transport corridor between the two towns has been the … Continue reading West Clare Railway Greenway – Cyclist.ie Submission
Bike Week 2021 ran from Sunday 12th to Saturday 18th September and Cyclist.ie’s member groups ran a wonderfully diverse array of events countrywide. We highlight a selection of these events here – it is certainly not exhaustive! Well done to all of our amazing groups and active members for running these events and enabling a lot more people to try out the bike – for … Continue reading Our Report on Bike Week 2021
Bike Week first took place in Ireland in June 2009 following the publication earlier that year of the National Cycle Policy Framework. The NCPF included a specific objective (#10.2, page 33) that an annual National Bike Week would be organised so as to improve the image of cycling and promote cycling using “soft interventions”. Twelve years on and as we edge out of a difficult … Continue reading Bike Week 2021 – Cyclist.ie Member Group Events