Polling for congestion pricing is always bad before a city implements it. Then it rapidly improves once residents experience faster traffic, quieter streets, and better transit service. As a European city official once told me, " “You have to make people happy against their will."

Oxfam, Brussels.

It would be better if over 60s were banned from Facebook. That radicalisation of that generation, by that platform, is the bigger threat to society.

As long as the driver didn't have to walk who cares about anyone else ?

Deadline for #CorkLuas submissions today. A project that is absolutely essential for #Cork and should be a spur for additional N-S lines. A 5 minute supportive submission even identifying some localised improvements/issues is well worth it. consult.tii.ie/luas-cork-ns...

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

"Bicycle-oriented development, a promising regional growth strategy." 🚲🏙️ The Razorback Greenway is already influencing growth in NW Arkansas, but this may be only the beginning. Other regions are taking similar steps. www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

Clearly, there's nowhere else they could have possibly parked...

The EU needs a strong #Bioeconomy strategy to break fossil fuel dependence & protect our biodiversity. On #WorldEnvironmentDay, we call for: 🌳 a strategy firmly anchored in the #EUGreenDeal; 🌳 clear sustainability safeguards; 🌳 prioritising the waste hierarchy. More: link.europa.eu/bgq4fy

Today is World Environment Day but in short order we've been hit by news of a new major fish kill, taken to court by EU over continued illegal turf cutting, singled out as UN example of what not to do when it comes to data centres & falling short on climate action targets We can do better than this

The Marina, Park & Markets definitely add to the match day experience. But sadly, the stadium operators would turn the surrounding parkland into a permanent carpark if they were given half a chance.

Nearly 2 billion people live in the red area. It is becoming completely uninhabitable. What do the climate deniers, who also hate immigration, think is going to happen?

“Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer, beyond redemption.” X radicalises our politics, normalises and amplifies the far right and poisons our democracy a bit more every day. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

In the end, Bratislava shows cycling culture isn't something exclusive to Northern European cities, but built through political leadership, persistent advocacy and institutional collaboration. Not cycling for its own sake, but as a practical tool to create a healthier, safer and more liveable city.🔚

How can this guy ever be allowed drive again? He has a ten year ban only? He had a long list of driving convictions and one after the killing of the couple and maiming their daughter? The covering up the crime, leaving the scene of a hit and run is unspeakable. #spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

The Rebel Army, now on Bluesky! 👋🏼 Last week, we announced that we’re no longer posting on X. We’re still active on all of our other channels, as well as now regularly posting here on Bluesky. Repost this post so that City fans and football fans in general know where to find us ✅ 🙏🏼

There’s a part of my heart where I’m really happy right now that these pesky delivery robots in the city are treated just as poorly at traffic lights as we pedestrians are. What’s more: they depend on our help—which we’re allowed to withhold :D

5 Cygnets at the Atlantic Pond.

The end of environmental public interest litigation? In a highly Trumpian move, the Government yesterday signed new regulations which will all but bring an end to public interest environmental litigation in Ireland. More: www.antaisce.org/news/the-end... #environmentaljustice #environmentlaw

“Versions of this application have now been rejected several times. It is our hope that this decision now marks a conclusion to the matter.” www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Imagine this man thought he should be president #speirghorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

‘Quiet Road’ pilot planned between two villages aims to show adding rural mobility “doesn’t always require major infrastructure projects” 30km/h limits backed by traffic calming, enhanced visibility treatments, and shared road markings and speed-activated signage are among the design features…

Every site is a dating site if you are brave enough

Work nearly completed in Rennes to remove a carpark which was built to cover the river. Rennes is a fine city - has a metro and great public spaces and a lot of ambition. Twinned with Cork. #Speirgorm

There were certainly good things about the Blackpool Village Core Draft Concept on display in the Community Centre yesterday but a covered up river Bride with Sustainable Urban Drainage proposals on top of it was not one of them. Online consultation open until 15th. #cork See less

I'm going to start calling all multi story car parks 'car sheds'

People complaining about the 127k for a bike parking facility obviously have not tried to buy a window or get any work done recently. This seems like it's just anti public services sentiment with a particular anti cycling flavour to it.

Bike week events in Cork @corkcyclingcrew.bsky.social @cyclingincork.bsky.social

Thinking that with the Luas opposition, the tacit drone approval and the regular desire to gift public land for private use, Cork has decided that better things are just not possible and people who think otherwise are contrarian. #Speirgorm

Toxic populists are going to sour all public spending: No, secure bike parking for hospital staff is not the same as Dáil bike shelter Comment & Analysis: There's never money for people on the front line, says Sinn Féin spokesperson on finance Pearse Doherty when he's complaining about a secure…

Cork North Central TD Ken O'Flynn on Drivetime today: "You go to Utrecht City...a fabulous city for cycling.. you'll see what they have provided there....which doesn't seem to come to €127k" www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... Utrecht spent €30m on an indoor bike parking facility in 2019.

Our cities are choked by cars – here’s how experts would fix them

You can’t even describe this as insanity. It’s too deliberate, too calculated. This is evil expressed in a landscape.

A populist distraction: framing cycling investment as 'waste' while shielding massive car parking subsidies from debate. We ignore the truth: our transport system is unsustainable and unhealthy precisely because we refuse to account for the true cost of cars

The OPW spends €1.2m of our money each year on car parking for civil servants. If a bike shed costing €127,000 stands for 20 years, the OPW will have, in that time, spent €24,000,000 of our money to rent car parking for well-paid office workers. www.thejournal.ie/readme/bike-...

Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

V good article: "The reason our European peers have seen a 12 per cent drop in road deaths since 2019 in the same time we have seen a 31 per cent rise in ours is because we simply are not using the evidence-based solutions that already exist." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

On a beautiful evening La Lapérouse departs Cork, bound for Fishguard . #Speirgorm

“New research found 98% of environmental claims made by 33 global agri-food firms were deceptive or intentionally misleading. Incredibly, only 3 of 1,200 claims were supported by scientific evidence”. My piece in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

"I hope this story helps you see forests in a new way" Ballyhoura today:

Marathon-Kenya's Sawe becomes first man to run marathon under two hours to win in London reut.rs/3Qw5buI

Sub 2hr Marathon!

Flying chainsaw. Hovering near the house as of it was lost and afraid to ask for directions, then a second one went past followed by a third. #Speirgorm

It doesn’t take a perfect plan. It takes people willing to try. In their neighborhood. With their kids. On their streets. That’s the #BikeBus.

Atlantic Pond looking well. #Speirgorm