DUBLIN HAS been ranked within the top 10 cycling cities in the world.
The Danish authors of the list said they were āsurprisedā that Irelandās capital ranked as the ninth when they looked at 80 major cities around the world.
They said the city was undergoing a āgrand reboundā in cycling thanks to āa wildly successful bike share programme, visionary politicians who implemented bike lanes and 30km/h zones, and a citizenry who have merely shrugged and gotten on with itā. Read more
Comment was made in relation to London but would just as easily apply to Dublin/Ireland:
“….. if Copenhagenize wanted to provoke a discussion about how provision for cyclists in the city should be shaped going forward, we canāt think of a better way to start it than this:
āIt’s time for more focus on mainstream promotion of cycling and less attention paid to the rants of speed-obsessed sub-cultures. Now that youāve designed (and spent a lot of money on) the beautiful āPringleā velodrome, how about spending a bit on cycle lanes to get there. And everywhere else.ā
Cyclist.ie representing the speed obsessed sub culture or representing the wider cycling community?