Limerick improvement projects

People who come out with painfully cringe clichés like "lycra clad MAMILS" tend not to do any cycling from A to B.

Do you have a reliable source for this figure or are you just parroting Willie O'Dea? Do those that object to the reallocation of some public road space for alternative modes of transport required to help Ireland achieve its legal and moral climate objectives have any viable alternative proposal? No, didn't think so.

Virtually all the recent developments in Limerick city appear to me to be funded by various State agencies. Schools, houses, office buildings etc. Great to see such investment as without State involvement the city would see very little development imo. Also, the first building on the Opera site is being funded by the Irish Strategic Fund. I thought that the entire development was being funded by the European Investment Bank. Is it a positive sign to have a number of investment banks involved.

Do you mean a Lidl on Clare st. ?

Ide be delighted with that.

Just to confirm, it's actually the Gaelcolaiste (ie secondary school) being moved down the road. Psumably housing will go in to the old school building although I don't think anything has been officially announced on that front.

All submissions for the cycle lane are available on eplanning.ie refrence number 228018, there are 701 submissions that I can see and the few that I have read are against the cycle lane. Anecdotal evidence, yes, but I believe Willie O Dea wouldn't lie about the % of those submissions being against

Highest per capita in the EU, as 19th largest out of 27 that's actually not a lot of emissions.

To put another way 3.98 tonnes per person equates to 19.9 million tonnes in Ireland. The EU average country population is 16.55 million so the average EU country emits 33.4 million tonnes

Wonder what the Chinese and USA figures are by comparison

Can't recall saying any of that. My point is that it's not as bad as some make it out to be

I read that Limerick has the second highest level of disposable income per person in Ireland, higher than Kildare, Meath, Cork etc. A statistic that should prove positive for potential investors. Remarkable how studies on poverty in Limerick city gets so much media attention, yet no comment on the very high level of income in the area.

No new routes for Limerick today in the big Connecting Ireland bus announcement but upgraded frequency to be announced for Limerick-Kilfinane, Limerick-Nenagh, and Limerick-Athlone.

Also a number of upgrades to west Clare seaside routes that will probably interest Limerick people.

Funding allocated for various Limerick greenways the routes of which were announced last year.

A network will only be as good as its weakest link. The quality of all those projects isn't great but at least they're trying something so I would reluctantly support them. On wide roads with loads of space, projects usually go ahead without too many issues but once unpopular decisions need to be made, they always fail. The SCR route was a vital connection between the city and Dooradoyle/Raheen but from what I can figure out in the Leader article, the council as a whole has again failed to deliver on the basic goal of the project which was to provide a safe, direct & attractive cycle route connecting these two locations.

Maybe I am just wrong on the facts but this argument seems to be one of the more pointless and ideology driven cycle lane one.

One one side you have people not wanting to lose parking despite having alternative spaces in their house. And on the other it's a 1 lane road that is too tight to overtake even a bike so there is no real danger to cyclists.

I don't see either side losing that much if it doesn't go their way.

Funnily enough it seems that the councillors that live in the area voted in favour. It's great to see public reps from the likes of Patrickswell looking out for the people on the SCR and going against the proposal.