“Rural Ireland CAN cycle!!” Cyclist.ie Rural Collective tells Councillors. Major campaign calls for support for cycling in Rural Ireland A national campaign to encourage local councillors to endorse the ‘Vision for Cycling in Rural Ireland’ began this week. The campaign is based on the “Vision” manifesto, launched in September 2020 by Minister for State, Malcolm … Continue reading Rural Ireland CAN cycle!
Cyclist is delighted to be advancing its work on the Rural Cycling Vision with funding support provided by Rethink Ireland under their Glas Communities Fund. Rethink Ireland has granted this award with the support of the Department of Rural and Community Development from the Dormant Accounts Fund and Ornua. The project runs from October 2021 … Continue reading Cyclist.ie an Awardee of Rethink Ireland’s Glas Funding
Last week Cyclist.ie made a submission to the National Transport Authority in regard to the “Connecting Ireland Bus Proposals”. As per the NTA website: Connecting Ireland is a major public transport initiative developed by the National Transport Authority (NTA) with the aim of increasing connectivity, particularly for people living outside our major cities and towns. … Continue reading Connecting Ireland Bus Proposals – Cyclist.ie Submission
The provisional figures published on the 26th of July 2021 by The Road Safety Authority (RSA) identify several worrying trends on the country’s roads. The review shows that from 1 January to 15 July, 2021, 65 people died on Irish roads in 60 collisions with a further 406 people were seriously injured. [1] Speaking on … Continue reading Cyclist.ie Demands an Immediate Response to Deaths and Serious Injuries on Rural Roads
On Friday last, 28 May 2021, Cyclist.ie made a detailed submission to the Department of Transport on the National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland, or NIFTI for short. According to the department’s website (where you can find all of the background papers on NIFTI: NIFTI is the Department of Transport’s contribution to Project Ireland … Continue reading National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland – Cyclist.ie Submission
The Cyclist.ie Rural Collective, representing cycling advocacy and promotion groups in the regions, welcomes this government funding announcement for walking and cycling infrastructure to nineteen local authorities outside of the cities – as can be read here. The allocation of more than €70 m is a good start to a process of providing infrastructure which … Continue reading NTA Allocates Over €70m In New Funding To Rural Councils For Active Cycling And Walking Infrastructure
Cyclist.ie, through our Rural Cycling Collective has developed a guide for Local Authorities to begin to develop a Vision for Cycling in Rural Ireland. The Rural Cycling Collective is an expanding array of small groups and individuals within the wider Cyclist.ie Advocacy Network with a focus on making rural communities (towns, villages and rural roads) cycle friendly for all ages and … Continue reading What is Cyclist.ie’s Rural Vision?
Last week a Zoom meeting was called for any interested groups, to discuss creating a new sub-collective of Cyclist.ie in order to build a mutual support network to promote and celebrate cycling in towns, villages and in between. Cyclist groups introduced themselves and discussed their strengths, challenges and the vision for the collective. As smaller … Continue reading Cyclist.ie’s Rural Collective
Jo Sachs Eldridge from Leitrim Cycling Campaign and Cyclist.ie’s Executive Committee has penned this piece on the proposed speed reductions announced by the Minister last week, and how in particular they relate to rural roads. At Velo-city[i], the international cycling conference, some years ago I tracked down speakers of many nations to quiz them about … Continue reading We can do this!
As we launch ourselves into another year’s campaigning, we have taken some time to reflect on the breadth and depth of advocacy work that Cyclist.ie carried out last year. In this article, we look back on 2022 through the frame of our 2021-26 Cyclist.ie Strategy (with our six strategic aims shown below) and consider how … Continue reading Reflecting on Cyclist.ie’s Work in 2022 and Looking Ahead to 2023
