Journalism and Cycling 2: the difficult second album

"Why won't anyone think of the poor children of Ballincollig?"

Well, obviously I'm going to tear down there as soon as it opens and time trial up and down the Greenway, hunting for kids to knock down. I'll probably get a rota going with a few clubmates to make sure that there is someone patrolling the Greenway for stray kids at all times. It's going to be carnage.

This would be the Lloyds Pharmacy attached to a shopping centre that has a large car park accessible almost directly from the 4-lane Blackrock bypass; and has 14 on-street parking spots directly outside his door?

That shopping centre was almost empty long before the cycle-lane went through Blackrock.

I'm all for those public opposition rallies and petitions - the people are easily identified and should be slapped with minimum Ten Year Stupid Tax.

While we're at it, lets pray for all the poor souls (and the children - FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!) who have busy roads 10 feet from their front doors up and down the country. How ever do they make it through the day intact.

There was a few up yesterday as well.

There's a resident there with a giant "No parking" sign affixed to the wall, as well as a double wide gate, all purely to preserve the space outside their front door as a private spot for themselves only. That's the level of entitlement.

All of the cottages have small garden space that, if with the removal of the walls between garden and footpath, could be converted to a parallel parking space actually on their own property. Something tells me that even if the council offered to fund the conversion that most wouldn't be in favour of the idea of using their own private property to store their own private property

I've been cycling in Dublin for 25 years but originally from Galway and have family there so familiar with the roads. Good piece but what horrific injuries on a roadabout, no details given as to the type and speed of the vehicle.

Just read that too. I don't ever remember annual serious injury number before. The only metric I ever remember being published was road fatalities.

Strongly linked with discussions we've had on boards here before about how these things get reported

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_road_traffic_accidents_deaths_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland_by_year

1997 they started recording serious injuries, injuries in 1922; hat the criteria was or is fcuk knows

Just while we're on the subject... Plea for motorists to reduce their speed as deaths on roads increase by 21pc (msn.com)

Only one cyclist fatality so far, thankfully. Yet we're lumped in with motorcyclists (9 fatalities) as being one sixth of all fatalities.

It's a bit all over the place. The Wikipedia article you linked to earlier differs at various points from the Garda and RSA figures, which differ from each other. One would think the RSA should be the authoritative - no pun intended - source of info, but looking at their latest annual report (2021) there're a couple of infographics about KSIs, and the rest is just them blowing smoke up their own jacksies.

And as for this pleading nonsense. If only there were some alternative to pleading, let's say some rules, where if you broke them you had to go and stand in a corner with a big "D" hat on, or something like that, and being really fanciful, you could have some official body like, for example, the police would be in other states enforcing these rules