Journalism and Cycling 2: the difficult second album

Deposit scheme is coming in the next year

Still, it's a start.

Wish I could get a sob story published one in the national newspapers for everything that's a little bit unfavorable to my living circumstances.

So why does she live in the middle of nowhere where the family needs two cars? I'm sick of this rural Ireland bullsh*t, you can't have your one-off cake and eat it.

If she is indeed a rural dweller then her way of life is already subsidized by the rest of society through the provision of roads to her doorstep and public utilities, seems she has a bit of a brass neck moaning in a newspaper when asked to contribute a few extra euros in taxes (when she admits increased tax credits will cancel out the extra carbon tax).

How were you getting around, to be hitting the roadworks - hoverboard? I'm not going to defend the article, and know that investment is spread too thinly to really impact in the city, but (for example) road maintenance in Wicklow is hardly just for locals. It's not like there's tolls for all the Dubs that come out at the weekend, same as there isn't for those that holiday in Donegal.

I'm not defending the split, as I said in my post above, but you've highlighted a National Secondary Route and a National Primary route as examples of local/ rural projects! It's not really Collooney (as a stand alone town) to Knock, it's Sligo Town (and further northwest) to Galway via the N4/ N17 (from Collooney) to Galway. So I'm not arguing the general point, but those are rubbish examples to pick!

As we see with the South Dublin Infrastructure thread here, the opposition to Bus Connects, with the Metro, there's an awful lot more to why Dublin (and most Irish cities) have crap public transport and active travel infrastructure than just the division of funding. Less about funding, more about the Car is King attitude.

Well we'll agree to disagree, as there is also a need for greater regional development to take the pressure (in several ways) off the greater Dublin area. But Sligo to Galway (2 significant urban centres in an Irish context) is still different from Collooney to Knock, which is how you framed it.

I am in the greater Dublin area, fwiw, and if/ when back in the office will be bike or public transport commuting, at least the "urban" part of the journey. It would be substantially more of the km's with more appropriate cycle infrastructure, which I have made submissions on for recent road projects, and the county development plan, for inclusion.

Every rail project in Dublin has met with opposition, even those that have proved to be a success. Bus Connects is going to be thoroughly compromised. We can't even get a network for safe cycling to bloody schools in Deansgrange.

No, that was a judicial review, that should be it.

A pretty firm upholding of the non feasance rule and also putting to bed the myth that a council have to act if they have been warned of a hazard

So, no Strand Road precedent solution in the first draft of the Bill? Seems strange, they had plenty of time to prepare it. Could it be that legal advice is that there are no such things, in principle of law, as temporary measures and trials?

If he tries to ram something through on the guillotine later in the process, he'll get the same treatment Dublin City Council got.