New Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan

Sam Russell

RandomViewer wrote: »

Proves the mid life crisis bit, spend a fortune on hair dye?

I do not have any dyed hair, and I have owned a red sports car for years - this is just the latest - no mid life crisis.

The bike is just to go on trips where the car would not be a good choice.

Enda Kenny used to walk to Gov buildings, ER goes by bike as it is that bit further.

Shefwedfan

RandomViewer wrote: »

When I say cyclist you know I mean sad middle-aged men in lycra who think they are in the Tour de France.

Compared to sad middle aged over weight men sitting in a Skoda thinking they are Michael Schumacher?

Rows Grower

I see the new Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu of the Green Party doesn't want cars parking in the Phoenix Park and neither does the Green MEP Ciaran what's his name.

Surely Eamon will be able to sort this out?

Marcusm

Rows Grower wrote: »

I see the new Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu of the Green Party doesn't want cars parking in the Phoenix Park and neither does the Green MEP Ciaran what's his name.

Surely Eamon will be able to sort this out?

He can do absolutely nothing about it without the agreement of the other parties as it falls under OPW not Transport.

Sam Russell

I would think it is illegal parking that is the problem. I would imagine the car parks are OK with her.

AndrewJRenko

RandomViewer wrote: »

When I say cyclist you know I mean sad middle-aged men in lycra who think they are in the Tour de France.

How about happy middle aged men in lycra who wonder why the drivers around them think they are in a Formula 1 race?

Or how about elderly women like these?
https://twitter.com/SilkeRichard/status/1271844709519024128?s=19

Or how about the many families with young kids that I saw cycling today?

Rows Grower

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

How about happy middle aged men in lycra who wonder why the drivers around them think they are in a Formula 1 race?

Or how about elderly women like these?
https://twitter.com/SilkeRichard/status/1271844709519024128?s=19

Or how about the many families with young kids that I saw cycling today?

Where's their helmets?

Accidents waiting to happen, the two of them.

Shefwedfan

Rows Grower wrote: »

I see the new Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu of the Green Party doesn't want cars parking in the Phoenix Park and neither does the Green MEP Ciaran what's his name.

Surely Eamon will be able to sort this out?

And your concerned about parking in Dublin why exactly?

Did you ask the Healy Rae if they have any policies on parking?

Rows Grower

Shefwedfan wrote: »

And your concerned about parking in Dublin why exactly?

Did you ask the Healy Rae if they have any policies on parking?

He cycles around Dublin, get with it slowcoach.

Shefwedfan

Rows Grower wrote: »

He cycles around Dublin, get with it slowcoach.

The Healy Rae double act cycle around Dublin?

AndrewJRenko

Rows Grower wrote: »

Where's their helmets?

Accidents waiting to happen, the two of them.

They're on tricycles mate, in case you missed it.

Where's your crash helmet for the car? Accident waiting to happen, you are, mate. That's where the vast majority of head injuries happen, in cars, not on bikes, even with seat belts and air bags etc.

Shefwedfan

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Compared to sad middle aged over weight men sitting in a Skoda thinking they are Michael Schumacher?

I’d much rather be a fat fecker in a skoda than a Lycra clad Tour de France wanna be.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

They're on tricycles mate, in case you missed it.

Where's your crash helmet for the car? Accident waiting to happen, you are, mate. That's where the vast majority of head injuries happen, in cars, not on bikes, even with seat belts and air bags etc.

How many times are you going to write this utter crap. It’s pretty clear that cyclists are in far greater risk of a head injury than someone in a car. Would you think motorcyclists don’t need helmets either? I was only reading Twitter yesterday someone who ran into a car who wrongly crossed his path being very thankful he had a helmet as he said it saved him.

RandomViewer

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

How about happy middle aged men in lycra who wonder why the drivers around them think they are in a Formula 1 race?

Or how about elderly women like these?
https://twitter.com/SilkeRichard/status/1271844709519024128?s=19

Or how about the many families with young kids that I saw cycling today?

Speed limits are enforced , idiot behaviour by cyclists isn't , old people and families rarely ride 4 abreast and go around corners on the white line, that seems to the preserve of the middle aged man.

RandomViewer

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Compared to sad middle aged over weight men sitting in a Skoda thinking they are Michael Schumacher?

Barry get a new car?

Shefwedfan

Alejandra Square Taurus wrote: »

I’d much rather be a fat fecker in a skoda than a Lycra clad Tour de France wanna be.

That’s the plan, once all the fatties die all early the World will be left to the rest of us :-)

At least on your death bed you can tell everyone you drove a Skoda

RandomViewer

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

They're on tricycles mate, in case you missed it.

Where's your crash helmet for the car? Accident waiting to happen, you are, mate. That's where the vast majority of head injuries happen, in cars, not on bikes, even with seat belts and air bags etc.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/almost-70-of-cyclists-without-helmet-at-time-of-head-trauma-1.4030409

AndrewJRenko

Alejandra Square Taurus wrote: »

I’d much rather be a fat fecker in a skoda than a Lycra clad Tour de France wanna be.

It's your choice of course, but the fat fecker in the Skoda will lose 10-20 years off his lifespan compared to the lycra clad TdF wannabe.

Alejandra Square Taurus wrote: »

How many times are you going to write this utter crap. It’s pretty clear that cyclists are in far greater risk of a head injury than someone in a car. Would you think motorcyclists don’t need helmets either? I was only reading Twitter yesterday someone who ran into a car who wrongly crossed his path being very thankful he had a helmet as he said it saved him.

Anecdote isn't a very sound basis for public safety policy.

Far more head injuries, and deaths happen in cars than on bikes.

If you believe that helmets will protect people from head injuries, you should be wearing one at all times in the car.

AndrewJRenko

RandomViewer wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/almost-70-of-cyclists-without-helmet-at-time-of-head-trauma-1.4030409

What percentage of motorists were without helmets at the time of head trauma?

AndrewJRenko

RandomViewer wrote: »

Speed limits are enforced , idiot behaviour by cyclists isn't , old people and families rarely ride 4 abreast and go around corners on the white line, that seems to the preserve of the middle aged man.

We have 98% of motorists breaking urban speed limits in the last RSA Speed Survey, so no, speed limits are not enforced.

Cyclist behaviour is enforced all the time, though I guess the Gardai spend most of their time dealing with motorists, given that they're the ones killing 2 or 3 people each week.

You're right that old people and families rarely ride, because they've been scared off the road by the speeding, texting, Snapchatting, Facetimeing drivers - that's a problem that we need to fix.

Shefwedfan

RandomViewer wrote: »

Speed limits are enforced , idiot behaviour by cyclists isn't , old people and families rarely ride 4 abreast and go around corners on the white line, that seems to the preserve of the middle aged man.

Come on and stop bulls**t, we try to cycle in our area with our kids, it’s a road with a 60km and drops down to 30km in a village, it should be safe but every gobs**t is doing 100km and slams on to slow down as they enter the village, on exit it a race to see how fast they can get up to speed

Only last week, someone had to ditch their car because cars had backed up at the junction into village, they came around corner so fast the option was plough into all the cars or go into ditch

I seen a video on Facebook last night of some clown ina row of cars behind a tractor, decides to floor his heap of sh*t and of course goes straight into the mower as the tractor was turning and he couldn’t stop in time

a huge percentage of Irish drivers are complete gobs**ts

RandomViewer

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

What percentage of motorists were without helmets at the time of head trauma?

Internal injuries, when your organs whack the I side of your body at over 100 miles an hour are the main cause of death in road accidents, head injuries from road accidents are quite low, got concussion from putting the windscreen out with my head in 1988 but nothing major

AndrewJRenko

RandomViewer wrote: »

Internal injuries, when your organs whack the I side of your body at over 100 miles an hour are the main cause of death in road accidents, head injuries from road accidents are quite low, got concussion from putting the windscreen out with my head in 1988 but nothing major

You're looking at head injuries as a proportion of overall motoring injuries. That's not really relevant.

If you look at motoring injuries as a proportion of overall head injuries, you will see that it is one of the major causes of head injuries (unlike cycling).



So, crash helmets for all motorists, right?

Seth Brundle

RandomViewer wrote: »

Internal injuries, when your organs whack the I side of your body at over 100 miles an hour are the main cause of death in road accidents, head injuries from road accidents are quite low, got concussion from putting the windscreen out with my head in 1988 but nothing major

...and had you been wearing a helmet?

Ken Tucky

Wow,

I hope Ryan isn't in his position for long because he he hasn't a clue.
Worst polluters in this country are cows.
Second is traffic pollution..i think,
But in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter what we do...ee have to do our best and I believe most of us do.
But he wants to tax us for living...
Remember his 8c is still on fuel from his last administion...

The wow bit was because of the nonsense above...

Ken Tucky

Wow,

I hope Ryan isn't in his position for long because he he hasn't a clue.
Worst polluters in this country are cows.
Second is traffic pollution..i think,
But in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter what we do...ee have to do our best and I believe most of us do.
But he wants to tax us for living...
Remember his 8c is still on fuel from his last administion...

The wow bit was because of the nonsense above...

Hurrache

RandomViewer wrote: »

4 abreast and go around corners on the white line, l

Must be a very wide white line.

RandomViewer

Seth Brundle wrote: »

...and had you been wearing a helmet?

helmet!! I wasn't wearing a seatbelt,

RandomViewer

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Come on and stop bulls**t, we try to cycle in our area with our kids, it’s a road with a 60km and drops down to 30km in a village, it should be safe but every gobs**t is doing 100km and slams on to slow down as they enter the village, on exit it a race to see how fast they can get up to speed

Only last week, someone had to ditch their car because cars had backed up at the junction into village, they came around corner so fast the option was plough into all the cars or go into ditch

I seen a video on Facebook last night of some clown ina row of cars behind a tractor, decides to floor his heap of sh*t and of course goes straight into the mower as the tractor was turning and he couldn’t stop in time

a huge percentage of Irish drivers are complete gobs**ts

So are cyclists

AndrewJRenko

RandomViewer wrote: »

So are cyclists

Probably true enough, though it's worth remembering that gob****e cyclists don't kill two or three people each week.

Shefwedfan

RandomViewer wrote: »

So are cyclists

How? because they hold the road?

RandomViewer

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Shefwedfan wrote: »

How? because they hold the road?

There are two types of cyclists on the road near me, type one are Indian dudes going to work, stay to the side, signal when turning, sound, second type is the balding school teacher with a fetish for L ycra, who doesn't stop at junctions, roars at pedestrians and wanders from lane to lane on the road, purposely holds the white line to stop cars passing and quite happily crosses the road in front of oncoming cars, whether it's the dodgy uniform or the mid life crisis that's causing this ,I don't know but it makes my view of cyclists quite poor

AndrewJRenko

RandomViewer wrote: »

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There are two types of cyclists on the road near me, type one are Indian dudes going to work, stay to the side, signal when turning, sound, second type is the balding school teacher with a fetish for L ycra, who doesn't stop at junctions, roars at pedestrians and wanders from lane to lane on the road, purposely holds the white line to stop cars passing and quite happily crosses the road in front of oncoming cars, whether it's the dodgy uniform or the mid life crisis that's causing this ,I don't know but it makes my view of cyclists quite poor

Does the 98% of drivers who break urban speed limits in the RSA Speed Survey make your view of motorists quite poor?

RandomViewer

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Does the 98% of drivers who break urban speed limits in the RSA Speed Survey make your view of motorists quite poor?

RSA aren't a reliable source, no way is it 98% ( I can't be everywhere ). Remember the time they got scammed by the tyre sales industfy on part worn tyres, turned off the ABS so the part worn tyres would skid, bunch of political rejects