Journalism and Cycling 2: the difficult second album

Seth Brundle

Steoller wrote: »

Ah damn. I've been asking my local councillors to consider linking up the greenways through Leixlip/Celbridge. But I don't think they have that amount to spend.

The project might have been easier in the sense that you'd be dealing with just the one County Council.
Plus they could have run it along a route avoiding the hills on either side of Lucan village which may put off many weaker riders.

Seth Brundle

This is from the UK but I could well imagine a similar joke of a sentence being given in this country...
Driver spared jail 'by the skin of your teeth' after smashing into cyclist and fleeing the scene
An unlicensed and uninsured driver who fled after mowing down a biker has been warned he could have killed.

JMcL

Seth Brundle wrote: »

New cycleways in Melbourne are causing heartache and confusion for the poor motorists...

https://twitter.com/9NewsMelb/status/1358686748025516037

There's some lad at about the 5 second mark on the video that if you unfocus your eyes a bit looks a bit like George Hook with a combover

Weepsie

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/08/how-sweden-is-taking-back-parking-spaces-to-improve-urban-living

breezy1985

Weepsie wrote: »

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/08/how-sweden-is-taking-back-parking-spaces-to-improve-urban-living

A few of these little parklets have been popping up round Limerick over the last year

tomasrojo

JMcL wrote: »

There's some lad at about the 5 second mark on the video that if you unfocus your eyes a bit looks a bit like George Hook with a combover

Based on your description, I suspect the reward doesn't match the effort!

zell12

Pat Kenny Newstalk about to tackle the proposed rental scheme for e-scooters in Dublin
brace yerselves

magicbastarder

i shall prepare myself, as always, by not having newstalk tuned in on the radio.

breezy1985

zell12 wrote: »

Pat Kenny Newstalk about to tackle the proposed rental scheme for e-scooters in Dublin
brace yerselves

Pat worried about all the damage they will do to the underneath of his urban tractor when he is driving over them to get to work

zell12

Newstalk - Dutch company DOT Duncan Robertson now speaking about e-scooter street rentals
https://ridedott.com/

Duckjob

Pat getting in his petty little digs at cyclists even though its nothing to do with the topic.

Scooter guy talked very well. Sounds like some interesting tech available in their system -

- testing rider reactions at times when drunk riding could be a problem and blocking vehicle use if necessary.
- Restricting speed automatically in areas where mixing with pedestrians etc.
- Blocking vehicle use completely from areas where its use is unsuitable for the environment

Wonder what are the chances of the motoring community accepting some of that tech into cars :P

Eamonnator

Cyclist robs 50,000 euro in Crumlin Post Office raid.

https://www.independent.ie/news/man-in-an-post-uniform-takes-part-in-robbery-of-50000-40081358.html

Okay. I'll get my coat.

breezy1985

Irish Times online had an article about the Vuelta route on the main sports page without having to root through the "other sport" section for ages. That is surely a win by Irish media standards

Tombo2001

Eamonnator wrote: »

Cyclist robs 50,000 euro in Crumlin Post Office raid.

https://www.independent.ie/news/man-in-an-post-uniform-takes-part-in-robbery-of-50000-40081358.html

Okay. I'll get my coat.

In addition, Gardaí are appealing to any road users - including motorists, cyclists and pedestrians who were in the area at this time - who may have camera footage (including dash cam) to make this available.



Glad to see its useful for something......

Less interested when its a dangerous overtake.

fat bloke

https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/fernando-alonso-conscious-and-well-in-himself-after-cycling-accident-1079928.html

This must be the ultimate "one of them becomes one of us" crossover story. He's not a cyclist. He's definitely a driver. In fact he's one of the world's best drivers. So what's the blame game when a driver on a bicycle is involved in a collision with a car?

(Best of luck to him either way, of course. Get well soon Alonso. I'd love to know what kind of bike he was riding.)

buffalo

fat bloke wrote: »

https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/fernando-alonso-conscious-and-well-in-himself-after-cycling-accident-1079928.html

This must be the ultimate "one of them becomes one of us" crossover story. He's not a cyclist. He's definitely a driver. In fact he's one of the world's best drivers. So what's the blame game when a driver on a bicycle is involved in a collision with a car?

(Best of luck to him either way, of course. Get well soon Alonso. I'd love to know what kind of bike he was riding.)

"Driver on bike collides with car"

breezy1985

buffalo wrote: »

"Driver on bike collides with car"

It doesnt give the nature of the accident. Not sure if a car was involved

fat bloke

breezy1985 wrote: »

It doesnt give the nature of the accident. Not sure if a car was involved

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.motorsport.com/f1/news/fernando-alonso-injured-hit-car/5382674/amp/

Differing reports and scant detail but there was a car (and presumably someone driving it) involved alright.

Seth Brundle

Car involved indeed and he allegedly has a jaw fracture...
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/56034657

dinneenp

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Car involved indeed and he allegedly has a jaw fracture...
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/56034657

"Sources close to Alonso say he was hit by a car"
They'll have to update that to 'his bike and a car collided." God forbid, that a car hitting a cyclist gets spun like it was the drivers fault!

eeeee

Interview with Eddie Dunbar:
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-40225838.html

Seth Brundle

Handbrake gaffe sees runaway car hit truck as driver scraps with cyclist in calamitous Phoenix Park road-rage row

magicbastarder

" then all of a sudden, the cyclist picked up his bike and smashed its front wheel into the side of the other lad’s car."
y'wha?

mvt

Typical- a weeks holidays of which the daily highlight has been loops of the park at roughly that time & I managed to miss this.
I will say if I had a euro for every vehicle which speed straight through that stop sign I could have gone abroad & paid the fine.
Always had it in my head that commercial traffic was restricted to the Chesterfield Avenue entrances.

Hurrache

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Handbrake gaffe sees runaway car hit truck as driver scraps with cyclist in calamitous Phoenix Park road-rage row

The whole story sounds completely concocted, it's a bit verbose to come across otherwise.

And unless the delivery drivers were delivering to somewhere in the park in their "truck", they shouldn't have been in there anyway.

zell12

Examiner letters

fat bloke

What? You need a visa now to go for a cycle?

Is this a Brexit thing?!

MojoMaker

What I can't understand with all these brilliant ideas is why there is so much desire among the general population for cyclists to wear a helmet?

I *sort of* understand why a driver might (in error) believe that hi-viz clothing makes a cyclist more visible and marginally less likely to be involved in an accident with a driver. That message has been shoved down motorists' throats for a long time now.

But I can't for the life of me understand why the common man or woman who doesn't cycle and frankly dislikes cyclists as a group, is so het up on cyclists wearing helmets.

I really don't get it. Is it (a) mantra repeated parrot-like from the RSA, (b) a motoring ploy to make cycling less convenient, and hence less likely, (c) a genuine concern for us as a cohort, (d) a convenient stick with which to beat us in the future in the absence of said article - "sure it can't be my fault, the gimp wasn't even wearing a helmet ffs".

A selection of all four? (leaving out the 3rd option of course).

Duckjob

MojoMaker wrote: »

What I can't understand with all these brilliant ideas is why there is so much desire among the general population for cyclists to wear a helmet?

I *sort of* understand why a driver might (in error) believe that hi-viz clothing makes a cyclist more visible and marginally less likely to be involved in an accident with a driver. That message has been shoved down motorists' throats for a long time now.

But I can't for the life of me understand why the common man or woman who doesn't cycle and frankly dislikes cyclists as a group, is so het up on cyclists wearing helmets.

I really don't get it. Is it (a) mantra repeated parrot-like from the RSA, (b) a motoring ploy to make cycling less convenient, and hence less likely, (c) a genuine concern for us as a cohort, (d) a convenient stick with which to beat us in the future in the absence of said article - "sure it can't be my fault, the gimp wasn't even wearing a helmet ffs".

A selection of all four? (leaving out the 3rd option of course).

I'd say its a combination of b) For some at least, they know mandatory helmets means less cyclists out on "their" roads.

and also (and I would consider this the main one) :

d) Victim Blaming: The question of cycists wearing a helmet allows them to push responsibilities of road safety away from themselves and onto others. The last thing many of these people want is a spotlight shone in on top of their own sh*tty driving.

magicbastarder

'i want you to take steps to absolve me of the damage i might do if i crash into you'?