Journalism and cycling

Duckjob

Rechuchote wrote: »

It's possible that this won't happen until all gardaí are required to spend time on bicycles, not at a particular stage of their career but as a regular thing.

This would be no bad thing. The standard of physical fitness of Gardai in general, and senior Gardai in particular is shocking.

AndrewJRenko

Lumen wrote: »

Have you had much contact with AGS?

Unfortunately yes, I've seen this hostility and preciousness all too often - which is why I've decided that it's time to stop tugging the forelock and start being respectfully assertive.

Chips Lovell

Is this all over the Guards asking people not to tag them in on twitter when posting pics/vids featuring unobscured reg plates?

CramCycle

Chips Lovell wrote: »

Is this all over the Guards asking people not to tag them in on twitter when posting pics/vids featuring unobscured reg plates?

Not so much the tagging but that they don't want reg plates visible when someone posts pictures of boldness. One of the Garda twitter users claims it is a breach of GDPR, quite incorrectly, I suspect more that it opens up the door to calls that they don't actually respond to reports on twitter. I can see their point as there process needs you to go through the station but they have handled it very poorly. They could have ignored it and / or just messaged the poster and said could you call in and report it, which would have been far more media savvy.

Chips Lovell

Our cycling Lord Mayor in the news again.

Rechuchote

CramCycle wrote: »

Not so much the tagging but that they don't want reg plates visible when someone posts pictures of boldness. One of the Garda twitter users claims it is a breach of GDPR, quite incorrectly, I suspect more that it opens up the door to calls that they don't actually respond to reports on twitter. I can see their point as there process needs you to go through the station but they have handled it very poorly. They could have ignored it and / or just messaged the poster and said could you call in and report it, which would have been far more media savvy.

Or more to the point they could take the licence number and put it on a watch list, and next time the person parks there (which the same people do all the time: looking at you, my local food producer) snag them and apply a fine and deduct points, and the same again…

buffalo

Chips Lovell wrote: »

Our cycling Lord Mayor in the news again.

I can't read the full article there, but is this story a repeat or an continuation?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/lord-mayor-invites-pub-patrons-to-mansion-house-1.3893419

The Lord Mayor of Dublin invited customers of four pubs from his electoral ward into the Mansion House two weeks before the local elections for “an evening of entertainment, refreshments, food and music”.

Nial Ring – who has already twice exhausted the free allowance of beer allocated to the Mansion House occupant...

If there's a more blatant way to win votes, I don't know what it is. Giving away money?

magicbastarder

'i just had a few of my mates around for a pissup on the public purse - what's wrong with that?'

work

Chips Lovell wrote: »

Our cycling Lord Mayor in the news again.

What has this to do with this thread?

work

Chips Lovell wrote: »

Our cycling Lord Mayor in the news again.

What has this to do with this thread?

Thinkingaboutit

work wrote: »

What has this to do with this thread?

Maybe Chips Lovell is likely concerned he might have downed one of his free (to him) 10,000 pints before cycling. Concerned for his health and safety. So a bit connected.

Grassey

Cyclists protest outside Dáil to highlight 'need for better infrastructure'

MORE THAN 100 cyclists have staged a protest outside the Dáil this evening to highlight what they say is a need for better biking infrastructure.

magicbastarder

i believe some people on e-scooters turned up to protest the lack of action on creating a decent legal framework around them.

Cabaal

The anti cyclists whatabottery you see in the journal comments section is just depressing

Seth Brundle

Cabaal wrote: »

The anti cyclists whatabottery you see in the journal comments section is just depressing

It's like Facebook. You're better off just not reading them!

abcabc123123

It's not called the bottom of the internet for no reason.

I would have said there were a lot more than 100 cyclists there.

dinneenp

Guardian video article
http://youtu.be/DBP2LTQxqZ8

cjt156

This should be required viewing, Clockwork Orange-style, for every Taxi Driver and internet comment maker.

homer911

Anyone catch the program on Channel 4 last night - there was a section dedicated to bicycle safety and close passes/hits, some scary videos..

Utter Consternation

homer911 wrote: »

Anyone catch the program on Channel 4 last night - there was a section dedicated to bicycle safety and close passes/hits, some scary videos..

No, what was it called? It might be on the 4player.

homer911

Had to look it up "Roads from Hell: Caught on Camera"

Utter Consternation

homer911 wrote: »

Had to look it up "Roads from Hell: Caught on Camera"

Sound, it's on the player.

Seth Brundle

Interesting article about how claiming motoring expenses for work are ok but bicycle expenses are not considered ok...

Why the vitriol about my bike expenses won’t stop me cycling for work – MP Matt Western

tomasrojo

abcabc123123 wrote: »

I would have said there were a lot more than 100 cyclists there.

Yeah, I was there too, and there were obviously more than 100 there. Maybe it's just hard for some people to gauge crowd size.

A work colleague told me RTÉ had left people with the impression that it was a rally about electric scooters. Didn't see any coverage on RTÉ myself, but this might leave you with that impression:
https://twitter.com/SamanthaLibreri/status/1128717014623817728

tomasrojo

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Interesting article about how claiming motoring expenses for work are ok but bicycle expenses are not considered ok...

Why the vitriol about my bike expenses won’t stop me cycling for work – MP Matt Western

I remember the Irish Times had an article about cycling to work that claimed that there would be no more travel-related expenses once you'd paid for the bike.

meeeeh

tomasrojo wrote: »

Yeah, I was there too, and there were obviously more than 100 there. Maybe it's just hard for some people to gauge crowd size.

A work colleague told me RTÉ had left people with the impression that it was a rally about electric scooters. Didn't see any coverage on RTÉ myself, but this might leave you with that impression:
https://twitter.com/SamanthaLibreri/status/1128717014623817728

It did. The way they were reporting it was like cyclists there were in support of legalisation of electric scooters.

Rechuchote

tomasrojo wrote: »

Yeah, I was there too, and there were obviously more than 100 there. Maybe it's just hard for some people to gauge crowd size.

A work colleague told me RTÉ had left people with the impression that it was a rally about electric scooters. Didn't see any coverage on RTÉ myself, but this might leave you with that impression:
https://twitter.com/SamanthaLibreri/status/1128717014623817728

He who writes the press release controls the angle. The scootists wrote a good press release, Dublin Cycling wrote a meh one, and I don't think Dublin Bikes (who were co-organisers) wrote one at all.

Still, it motivated people for further political action. And the scootists do need their scooters legalised.

tomasrojo

IBikeDublin (rather than Dublin Bikes)?

Might be true about the press releases. I suppose there wasn't a specific demand of the rally (maybe to allocate 10% of the transport budget to cycling, which alays gets mentioned at these rallies, as it should be); the point was, I gathered, to remind local and european candidates that the section of the population that votes and also cycles is numerous and engaged.

Corca Baiscinn

tomasrojo wrote: »

IBikeDublin (rather than Dublin Bikes)?

Might be true about the press releases. I suppose there wasn't a specific demand of the rally (maybe to allocate 10% of the transport budget to cycling, which alays gets mentioned at these rallies, as it should be); the point was, I gathered, to remind local and european candidates that the section of the population that votes and also cycles is numerous and engaged.

Yes the message re the 10% seems to require constant repeating for some odd reason! Press Release theory plausible but could it equally be that cyclists protesting is old news by now after several so RTE see it as yada, yada, yada, whereas scooters.....ah there's a whole newclickbaity controversial angle.

So who should IBike and Dublin Cycling invite next time, unicyclists, online skaters, spacehopperists?

Grassey

A woman who fell off her bike and hurt her back when it skidded as she cycled near her Tipperary home has been awarded €66,000 by the High Court.

Her side claimed Mrs Ryan’s injuries were not caused by the council’s failure to repair the laneway, but rather by alleged negligent design and construction which it was claimed created a nuisance.

Can we start claiming that most cycle lanes are now nuisances and see the $$$ roll in? *



* She did seem to suffer pretty serious injuries in fairness