John Legge

Victim-blaming dressed up as a question, combined with a basic misunderstanding of statistics from @antonsavage.bsky.social.

Bus drivers' union want to see hi-vis jackets become 'mandatory' for cyclists The union said that the issue has grown due to a ‘proliferation’ of electric vehicles.

We firmly oppose this measure, as existing evidence indicates that such laws do not, in fact, protect people who cycle.

The union should be calling for better active transport infrastructure instead of deflecting responsibility to the most vulnerable people on the roads.

Our statement regarding last week's proposal to introduce a mandate on helmets and high-visibility gear for people who cycle 🚴‍♂️

Such a measure would be folly - for everybody on the road.

Helmet and visibility mandates do not make cycling safer. Transport planning centred on people, however, does 🌍

irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them

Conscious any discussion on transport is polarising but can we agree on:
🚗 Less speeding in cities and towns
👮‍♀️ A Garda focus on speed enforcement
🛣 Road design and landscaping to reinforce this
🚴‍♀️ Cycling facilities that protect children (and ourselves)
🏍 Confiscation of illegal souped-up e-bikes?

What a wildly stupid idea.

Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes.

That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.

Yes but this allows the government to pretend that they’re doing something to make the roads safer without having to inconvenience drivers

Fucking gombeens. Love to be seen to do something and it's inevitably the stupid knee-jerk wrong thing rather than the more difficult necessary evidence based thing that will upset some of their gombeen friends

Ok, let’s do this🙄

We’ll start with an explainer covering:

🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from

And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article

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small child standing in front of a massive black SUV, the level of the bonnet is higher than her head

small child standing in front of a normal toyota hatchback, her eyes are level with the windscreen wipers

did a little experiment with two cars on our street

the 5-year-old is 105cm (3' 5") in bare feet. she could clearly see the steering wheel of the toyota, couldn't even see the windscreen of the yank tank

I asked her where they'd hit if they hit her: "the little one my tummy, the big one my head"

Ireland's dangerous roads: When cars come first, everyone loses Sadhbh O’ Neill says that the reduction of road deaths in Ireland is being strangled by a lack of political courage.

"When cars come first, everyone loses"

It'll be kinda funny if forcing me to wear a helmet is the final straw that breaks me

What makes cycling safer is treating cycling as a real form of transport, making motorists drive safely, and separating cyclists from the big heavy dangerous motorised machines with protected cycle lanes

Letter from Dr John Legge responding to the recent discourse on proposals to mandate high-visibility clothing for vulnerable road users.

Active travel means healthier people, especially healthier kids. We should be doing everything we can to support it.
(Thanks to the D12BikeBus for letting me film them this cold morning!)

Sammy Wilson shows his support for Kneecap.

GRMA to all our loyal supporters for making the journey to London today to support us. 💚🤍🧡

Lots of abusive and misogynistic far-right posts on X are the first replies to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.

And guns don’t kill people

Poignant letter by Dr Lisa McNamee in the Irish Times this morning.

Some people say the political cultures of the 26 and 6 will be hard to integrate.

The shared enthusiasm for deliberately destroying our waterways to please the intensive farming lobby seems very compatible.

Our letter today.

The NTA’s 2024 Travel Survey is out.

Car use is rising. Active and public transport are stagnant.

The consequences aren’t future risks — they’re here, for our health and the planet.

And make no mistake: this isn’t policy failure. It’s policy intent, locally and nationally.

Our Road Safety Strategy is broken!

The RSA, Gardaí, and Local Government are pushing a campaign that tells people to “be seen” instead of calling out the real causes of deaths: speeding, red-light running, dangerous/illegal parking, and the near-total lack of enforcement.

Stop blaming victims!

Red lights and red tape: Why Ireland is lagging behind on pedestrian safety Every day, Ireland invests more than €1m in walking and cycling infrastructure, aiming to make its streets safer for everyone. But rising casualty numbers reveal just how much there is still to do.

I contributed to this important article by @gerherbert.bsky.social regarding the safety on our roads. So many of these deaths are preventable tragedies

m.independent.ie/life/red-lig...

How much high vis should we wear to counteract drivers using their phones while driving?

A chara, - In January 1989, the British Minister Douglas Hogg stated that some solicitors were “unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA”. Three weeks later Pat Finucane was murdered by loyalists. It is widely accepted in Ireland that there was a consequential link between these two events. Will there be a similar recognition of the responsibility political leaders bear for inciting violence in the wake of the horrific arson attack on a centre for international protection applicants in Drogheda on Hallowen night, only days after the Tánaiste described migration numbers as “too high”? - Is mise Wendy Lyon

Wow the IT actually printed my letter

#speirghorm

I am calling on the Irish government to learn the lessons from our peer countries and implement a default 30km/h speed limit in all built up areas, as previously promised. Lives depend on it. #SpeirGorm #Love30

🧵 Some ppl refer to the Irish right-wing party, Fine Gael, as ‘Blueshirts’, as part of their origin is derived from a Fascist movement. Let’s look at how this conservative party was formed, given that the party’s candidate Heather Humphreys is running in the Presidential Election [1] #SpéirGhorm

Campaigners heap pressure on government to rollout 30km speed limit The Love30 campaign is stepping up the pressure - calling on the government to stop delaying and deliver a default 30km speed limit in towns and cities.

The science is clear: a default 30km/h speed limit in all urban areas will save lives!

Any further delay in implementing this long overdue change is unforgivable.
#Love30

Jason Cullen from the Dublin Commuter Coalition said a response from a staff member from the Junior Transport Minister, Sean Canney's office, during that presentation, was alarming. "The clear indication that we got from the Minister's staff member there, was that it would be at least 18 months before we see any form of instruction to local county councils. 'When I pointed out to him that within that time 20 to 30 cyclists will probably have been killed on our roads due to the current trends that we're seeing, the response from him was that it is 'regrettable' that that will happen. "It really took my breath away."

The response from the Minister's representative at yesterday's meeting in Leinster House was shocking.

It's very clear that this government is not taking road safety seriously and people will die as a result.

www.fm104.ie/news/fm104-n...