Limerick City Council: 10% of transport funding to be spent on cycling

Seth Brundle

Just Wow!
Now, which council is next?

https://twitter.com/GalwayCycling/status/1184208858883018758

(threadreader version of Breandán Anraoi MacGabhann's tweet: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1184107779964825600.html)

8valve

Fantastic news for Limerick.

Now, the rest of ye CoCos.... take heed, follow this example and do the right thing.

magicbastarder

is that vote meaningful - as in, do the councillors have the power to allocate budget in that way?

Seth Brundle

I mentioned the cyclingforall.ie campaign to every LE candidate that I spoke to last year and not one of them would agree to it

is_that_so

magicbastarder wrote: »

is that vote meaningful - as in, do the councillors have the power to allocate budget in that way?

Technically it's the County Manager call and it depends on overall budget and what else councillors have done, like say voting to reduce LPT!

Weepsie

Expect the transport budget to be slashed now and parts of it creatively renamed