Dublin - #1 Bicycle-friendly English-speaking city in world

MakeEmLaugh

The Copenhagenize index of bicycle-friendly cities ranked 122 cities for the 2015 index, and Dublin was the #1 English-speaking city on the list.

Indeed, it was the only English-speaking in the Top 20 (unless one counts French-speaking Montreal in Quebec, in which 56% of residents can speak both English and French).

Good for us, I suppose.

The Backwards Man

There's six in the top ten a bogger from Donegal could have a more intelligible conversation with than a howya from Dolphin's Barn.

The Diabolical Monocle

not good when theres a bus of 50 working people stuck on the quays behind some rubber arsed fantasist indulging his sport on the roads and going at 5 mph at a quarter to nine.

sullivlo

Fantastic! Another cycling thread in AH. Don't see this turning into a cyclist bashing thread at all!

/sarcasm

Owen_S

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

not good when theres a bus of 50 working people stuck on the quays behind some rubber arsed fantasist indulging his sport on the roads and going at 5 mph at a quarter to nine.

Good effort, should get a few people taking the bait soon enough.

8/10 for trolling.

Darkglasses

Although Irish roads are considerably safer than we make out, that index is a load of nonsense for obvious reasons.

Good luck, have fun AH.

Tony Beetroot

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

not good when theres a bus of 50 working people stuck on the quays behind some rubber arsed fantasist indulging his sport on the roads and going at 5 mph at a quarter to nine.

He needs to be introduced to them energy gels :pac:

Darkglasses

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

The Copenhagenize index of bicycle-friendly cities ranked 122 cities for the 2015 index, and Dublin was the #1 English-speaking city on the list.

Indeed, it was the only English-speaking in the Top 20 (unless one counts French-speaking Montreal in Quebec, in which 56% of residents can speak both English and French).

Good for us, I suppose.

Minneapolis is also in the top 20. But let's face it, the list is completely meaningless because of the relatively small number of Belgian, Dutch and Danish cities in the top 20 that are obviously more cyclist-friendly than Dublin. In addition, some of their 13 categories are woolly and/or clearly poorly researched.

kneemos

sullivlo wrote: »

Fantastic! Another cycling thread in AH. Don't see this turning into a cyclist bashing thread at all!

/sarcasm

Glad you pointed out the sarcasm.

jimmycrackcorm

The Diabolical Monocle wrote:

not good when theres a bus of 50 working people stuck on the quays behind some rubber arsed fantasist indulging his sport on the roads and going at 5 mph at a quarter to nine.

Have a look outside the bus window while traveling on the quays, you'll see yourself being passed by bicycles.

ClovenHoof

English speaking city?

nullzero

sullivlo wrote: »

Fantastic! Another cycling thread in AH. Don't see this turning into a cyclist bashing thread at all!

/sarcasm

Ha ha,

We'll I always keep my cyclist bashing stick close to hand, particularly when driving in foothills on the Dublin mountains of a Sunday morning.

fleet_admiral

ClovenHoof wrote: »

English speaking city?

Que?