Irish Cycling Campaign is seeking volunteers to get involved in our Action Groups, which were developed as a way to help implement our Strategic Plan 2021-2021. The groups are as follows:1 – Income Generation2 – Membership & Volunteering3 – Tools and Technology4 – External Communications5 – Engagement with Politicians6 – Engagement with Officials7 – Consultations8 … Continue reading Action Groups
Is Monaghan County Council the first Local Authority in Ireland to publish an up-to-date Walking & Cycling Strategy? We think so, and we commend the Council on doing so, and in leading the way for other rural Local Authorities to follow. Like many small counties, Monaghan has very low active travel numbers as shown in … Continue reading Monaghan County Council Talks the Talk!
Cyclist.ie very much welcomes the Safe Routes to School Programme announced jointly today by Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan TD, Minister for Education Norma Foley TD and Minister of State Hildegarde Naughton TD. See here for the Departmental Press Release on it. Safe Routes to School were one of Cyclist.ie’s active travel asks for General … Continue reading Cyclist.ie welcomes Ministers’ Announcement on Safe Routes to School
Cyclist.ie has had an intensely busy and fruitful period of campaigning over the last two years. In the text below, we list many of our highlights and main achievements in 2019 and 2020. It is broadly divided into Campaigns, Submissions, Presentations, International Advocacy Work and Organisational Developments. It is certainly not exhaustive, but will give … Continue reading cyclist.ie Highlights & Achievements – 2019 & 2020
Cyclist.ie welcomes today’s announcement by Jack Chambers, Minister of State for Transport, regarding significant changes to speed limits under the National Speed Limit review. This development is part of a comprehensive suite of measures to be delivered under the Irish Government’s Road Safety Strategy 2021-2030 and marks a pivotal moment for road safety in Ireland. … Continue reading Safer Roads for Everyone – Cyclist.ie Welcomes Speed Limit Reductions
Cyclist.ie delivered its Pre-Budget 2024 Submission to the Department of Finance (Minister Michael McGrath) and the Department of Education (Minister Norma Foley) earlier today, 28 August 2023. You can read it in full as a PDF here or in the body text further below. A big thanks to our hard-working Executive Committee and wider team … Continue reading Cyclist.ie Pre-Budget 2024 Submission
In the following article, Katleen Bell-Bonjean from Cyclist.ie’s Executive Committee (and Gort Cycle Trails) shares her reflections on the 2023 Velo-city International Cycle Planning conference that was held in Leipzig in Germany. The event was co-organised by the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF), of which Cyclist.ie is the member for Ireland, and the City of Leipzig. … Continue reading Velo-city 2023 Leipzig – Cyclist.ie Report – Katleen Bell-Bonjean
Cyclist.ie made a submission today, Thu 12 Jan 2023, on the Options Selection Phase of the Development of the Lough Derg Greenway in County Tipperary. Information on the project can be read here https://loughderggreenway.ie/. You can read our submission below. Note that the Options Selections Phase, in terms of its position in the sequencing of … Continue reading Lough Derg Greenway – Options Selection – Cyclist.ie Submission
Cyclist.ie made the submission below to the National Transport Authority (NTA) on Friday 18 November 2022 in respect to the public consultation on “CycleConnects”. This was all about the proposed cycle networks in both rural and urban areas lying outside of the Greater Dublin Area (as shown in the light green shaded counties of the … Continue reading CycleConnects – Cyclist.ie Submission
This is the forth in a series of articles on the recent Velo-city International Cycling Conference – with this one written by Giulia Grigoli of Dublin Cycling Campaign / Cyclist.ie. The Beginning Velo-City 2022, Ljubljana, was my third Velo-City, having attended and presented before at Velo-City 2019 in Dublin and at the hybrid remote-in person … Continue reading VELO-CITY 2022 – CYCLIST.IE REPORTS – GIULIA GRIGOLI
