Streets4All is a new collective of people who have come together to create one voice in the campaign to make the streets, cities and places in Northern Ireland better for walking, wheeling, cycling and living. The group has a wealth of expertise but, most importantly, a strong desire to create greener, healthier and more active ways of living and travelling. Its aim is: to campaign … Continue reading Streets4All Northern Ireland – Launch Event
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National Cycle to School practice runs 21st August to 4th September 2021 The “Get to School on Your Own Fuel” is a women-led initiative from members of Cyclist.ie – Irish Cycling Advocacy Network who today issued a call to parents/guardians, and school communities to support their promotion which aims to help families familiarise themselves with their school routes. This year the promotion will run from … Continue reading Mums and grannies launch 2021 get to school on your own fuel campaign
Cyclist.ie delivered its Pre-Budget 2022 Submission to the Department of Finance earlier today (Wed 18th August 2021). You can read it in full as a PDF here. The introduction and summary of the submission can be read immediately below. A big thanks to our hard-working Executive Committee and wider team for preparing the submission. This behind-the-scenes technical work is but a small part of our … Continue reading PRE-BUDGET 2022 SUBMISSION FROM CYCLIST.IE
The provisional figures published on the 26th of July 2021 by The Road Safety Authority (RSA) identify several worrying trends on the country’s roads. The review shows that from 1 January to 15 July, 2021, 65 people died on Irish roads in 60 collisions with a further 406 people were seriously injured. [1] Speaking on behalf of Cyclist.ie – the Irish Cycling Advocacy Network, Colm … Continue reading Cyclist.ie Demands an Immediate Response to Deaths and Serious Injuries on Rural Roads
Cyclist.ie made a submission to Fingal County Council this week (on 7th July 2021) on the non-statutory consultation on the Royal Canal Urban Greenway, 12th Lock to Kildare Border. For anyone less familiar with the stretch, it runs westwards from the 12th Lock, located quite near the junction of the M50 with the N3 (Navan Road). The overarching point in our submission is that we … Continue reading Royal Canal Greenway – Clonsilla Stretch – Cyclist.ie Submission
Cork Cycling Campaign have won the inaugural Active Community Group Award from the Cork Sports Partnership! There were four categories in the awards: group, campaign, inclusion and champion. There were lots of entries and three finalists in each group. A short video was made of each group: Note that the Cork Cycling Campaign video starts at about 14 minutes. Cork Cycling Campaign was nominated by … Continue reading Cork Cycling Campaign -Winners of the Active Community Group Award
Cyclist.ie broadly welcomes the announcement that 170 schools nationwide have been allocated funding in the first round of the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Programme. We are very pleased to see this programme progress and we look forward to more children cycling to school safely right across the country in the near future, as a result of improvements in active travel infrastructure. The advancement of … Continue reading New Safe Routes to School Funding is Allocated
“We have a strategy. We have a team. We’re missing just one thing – you.” In 2020 the Irish Cycling Advocacy Network Cyclist.ie adopted a new strategy. This strategy sets out the vision, mission, values and strategic aims. It also makes clear who we are, and why we do what we do. Our strategy is a high-level framework that will guide our Council, Executive Committee … Continue reading Zen and the art of Organisation Maintenance