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A key aim of the DCC's Active Travel Programme is decluttering footpaths. Yet along the Fitzwilliam Quay to Londonbridge Rd scheme, they've managed to install a forest of signage for just 500m of cycle path.
Good cycling infrastructure should be intuitive & legible, not need constant instructions.
Great, positive news, terrible headline.
The use of the word 'dramatic' sends the wrong message.
Nature loss can cost the British economy more than the NHS in 2030. That is in FOUR years.
This is pretty much 100% applicable to Ireland.
This is not some distant threat. This is happening right now while the Irish government is busy expanding Dublin Airport and building more data centres.
We have to stop running Dublin as a for-profit business.
My letter in The Irish Times this morning.
#ReimagineDublin
Irresponsible, head-in-the-sand journalism at its finest.
Not a single mention of the emissions involved, nor of the very real damage this scale of air travel inflicts on human health and the planet.
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Our sincerest apologies - we absolutely want to be as inclusive as possible! We'll post this to our website with a link to the pdf, as well as the alt-text, would that be helpful
Does this article mention:
Emissions? No.
Climate change? No.
Human health? No.
More free pro-aviation PR from the Irish media.
The health care for a fossil fuel advertising ban is obvious.
The question is: will our government act?
#BanFossilAds
The College Green plans are not perfect, far from it, but they are a step in the right direction!
So please, put in a submission in support of the plans!
But remember, do include everything you want to see improved!
Let's create a healthier, greener, and fairer Dublin. Together!
No @antonsavage.bsky.social!
A misleading RSA statistic claiming “98% of pedestrians killed weren’t wearing hi-vis” does not show that pedestrians are safer wearing hi-vis.
Making that claim is A) wrong because it’s based on flawed statistics, and B) I’ll keep saying it — correlation ≠ causation.
The statistic you used does NOT show that pedestrians are safer if they wear hi-vis.
Even if we ignore all the issues with the statistic itself, that still leaves our main point (statistics 101): correlation ≠ causation.
Latest figures show a total failure of policy to deal with agriculture emissions
www.independent.ie/farming/fore...
This thread is worth reading to see the spectacularly, wilfully, boorish reaction from a pundit presented with reasons and data why his hot take is wrong.
The “comment is sacred, facts are free” school of punditry really has debased public discourse.
You’re conflating correlation with causation. If few pedestrians wear hi-vis, most killed won’t be wearing it - that alone proves nothing. Without risk rates, the stat is meaningless, or even inflammatory, and shifts blame onto victims.
I agree with the content of this article, but I disagree with the language:
'Ireland’s low urban population has left us with a problem of extreme commuting.'
The use of 'has', makes it seem like this is an accident or unfortunate consequence when it is in fact willed policy that has led us here.
Last year, we urged the Irish government to introduce a nationwide ban on fossil fuel advertising.
They chose not to act.
But across the globe, cities and countries are stepping up—reclaiming the narrative and taking bold action.
Ireland, meanwhile, remains a climate laggard.
#BanFossilAds🔥
Victim-blaming dressed up as a question, combined with a basic misunderstanding of statistics from @antonsavage.bsky.social.
Anton Savage's comment that “98% of pedestrians killed weren’t wearing hi-vis” shows a lack of understanding of statistics.
If few people wear hi-vis while walking, then of course almost everyone killed won’t have been wearing it. Without comparing actual risk rates, that figure tells us nothing.
One of the most disturbing interviews I’ve heard in a while — an interviewer veering into blaming pedestrians killed on our roads for not wearing hi-vis, and a bus drivers’ union pushing the same line.
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.
Just like Icarus, we are indeed flying too close to the sun, driven by Government policy and uncritical media coverage.
My letter in The Irish Times this morning.
Billions on medicines. 19% of healthcare emissions.
That spending power should improve patient care and drive down healthcare’s environmental footprint.
#SustainableHealthcare
It’s encouraging that the Supreme Court ruling could stop some of these projects.
But once again, we’re seeing narrow, sensational, bizarre coverage that fixates on how inconvenient it might be to pause road building, while ignoring the far greater and ongoing harm caused by climate breakdown.
No mention of the environmental footprint of pharmaceuticals or sustainability overall.
Pharmaceuticals alone represents 19% of the HSE's total emissions.
This is not about awareness, but rather about enforcement.
If you park your car illegally, endangering others, it must have consequences.
No awareness campaign will fix this issue. Only enforcement will.
Driving through Inchicore, Crumlin and Walkinstown in Dublin last night, I lost count of the number of illegally, dangerous and antisocially parked cars, blocking footpaths and cycle paths.
There is little to no visible enforcement.
Dublin is consumed by cars. It is a disgrace.
Kids play at the gate to Dublin Castle, near Chez Max.
"Space for kids, just like affordable housing and culture, should be a fundamental part of Dublin’s planning," writes Neil Dunne, of the inspiration for the illustration he did for our print edition #119. www.dublininquirer.c...
