What a day meeting @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social advocates from all round the country AND @cyclinguk NI colleagues. They’re working together on a Shared Island Civic Society project. Yay for north-south cooperation 💚🤍🧡❤️🤍💙 All ably hosted by @droghedacycling including a fun bike tour round town ☺️

Coming soon!

Good to meet up with other cycle campaigners from across Ireland at the @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social “Crossing Borders Conference”in Drogheda - and thanks to Quay Cycles in Drogheda for the bike hire.

Doing a bit for our local cycle campaign group, @andccg.bsky.social dodging the showers

Excellent, our @andccg.bsky.social cycle campaign group is represented by our chair Stephen McCrory 👍

@andccg.bsky.social 🙂🚲👇

This should be rolled out across the island, quiet ways designated for walking and wheeling, lower traffic speed limits and clear signage 👇

Socially Unacceptable Vehicle: Accounting for factors incl. driver characteristics and road conditions, adult pedestrians and cyclists had a 14% higher fatality rate when hit by an SUV compared to a regular car. Children had a 77% higher fatality rate when hit by an SUV. 77% higher fatality rate.

"Car-free streets will hurt businesses"

Basically forest parks, which invariably means driving, so having a car and transporting bikes--much more inclusive cycling access is needed in NI, with off-road and traffic-free routes from towns and cities through the countryside.

In the final part of our off-road access series, we head to Northern Ireland where cycling access is severely limited. With no general right to ride off-road and just 6% public land, options are scarce – but not non-existent 👇 🔗 cyclinguk.org/ni-off-road-cycling

Thanks for coming along this morning for a simple, safe and stress free cycle down to city hall for breakfast. Thanks to Dep. Lord Mayor @PaulDoherty___ for the warm welcome and @belfastcc for the continued support.

And this week's Ride On Belfast cycling event shows it is possible for @translinkni.bsky.social to accommodate bikes on trains, sensibly 06.00-07.30, but we need this not just one day a year but EVERY day to boost active travel in NI 👇

Looking for an easy way to get the kids out on their bikes? We’ve rounded up 50 family-friendly cycle routes across the UK — with something for all ages & abilities. 💬 Tried any of them? cyclinguk.org/50-family-friendly-cycle-routes

No.4 on our list of highlights from 30 years of Camcycle is 'Making Space for Cycling'. Volunteers wrote this guide to high-quality cycle infrastructure which aimed to up UK ambition. It was endorsed by groups including @cyclinguk.bsky.social, @britishcycling.org.uk & @cprecountryside.bsky.social.

From 6 July, a free reservation is needed to take bikes on the Calais-Paris TER trains. A good thing, as (a) no danger of 10 people turning up for 4 bike spaces and (b) these trains now actually show up when you add a bike to a Calais-Paris booking at SNCF-connect.com. www.seat61.com/bike-by-trai...

✅ #WorldBicycleDay

We’re gearing up for #BikeWeek (9–15 June) and nothing says celebration like a #BigBikeBrunch fundraiser ☕ Ride, refuel and reconnect over bikes, brews & bites. 👉 Sign up: www.cyclinguk.org/bikeweek?utm... 🤝 Thanks to supporting partner Bikmo, Cycling UK members get 10% off cycle insurance.

Upcoming next week 😍👇

Last week our CEO & Head of Campaigns joined our NI Engagement Officer for a day of meetings in Belfast. From @sustrans.bsky.social NI to Stormont with Peter McReynolds MLA, and a milestone first meeting with Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins MLA — all steps forward for cycling in NI 💬

Will be interesting to hear the outcomes @cycul.bsky.social @belfastcyclecam.bsky.social @andccg.bsky.social

Please join us next Thursday at The Courthouse in Bangor for this Bike Week event courthousebangor.com/event/uk-bik...

Calling everybody who walks, runs, wheels, cycles and rides! Who's up for helping to create the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling & horse riding network for Britain and Ireland? Please check out, back and share our new #SlowWays crowdfunding campaign 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐

It’s World Bicycle Day! 🚴‍♀️🌎 There’s nothing like a bike ride to boost your mood, get your heart pumping, and connect with your community. Share your #BikeJoy with us and show us how you ride for a healthier, happier world today!

Upcoming 😍

Blanket 20mph in all urban areas would make a huge difference

Well done @cycul.bsky.social for getting @translinkni.bsky.social to allow bikes on board on early trains, wish it was always thus! cycul.cc/products/rid...

#OpenAccess in Transactions: 'Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements' by @citiesandstuff.bsky.social, Russell Hitchings & Michael Nattrass doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Very tricky to achieve as there are no definitive and mapped public rights of way here, so walking or wheeling means using roads and competing for space with traffic. A right to roam would make a huge difference but there's a lack of political willing north and south to achieve this...

Out of curiosity, who'd like a #SlowWays walking network connecting every village, town and city in #Ireland?

More shots of the Chertsey - Woking cycle path (shared cycle path and foot way. As you can see, Surrey County Council has not been particularly interested in maintaining the asset

This is what I find time and time again on the bike. You make connections. You feel part of the city. It changes your relationship with where you live.

Bike Week 2025 runs from Sat 10 to Sun 18 May 2025, and many of Irish Cycling Campaign’s Local Groups are running events. In this article, we give a flavour of the events that some of our own Local Groups will be running. www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/2025/05/bike...

Minister for Transport officially relaunches Cyclist.ie as Irish Cycling Campaign 🥂 irishcycle.com/2025/05/17/m... Please visit: www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @cyclingincork.bsky.social @dublincycling.bsky.social @galwaycycling.bsky.social @lmkurbancycling.bsky.social

Thanks, a new road to Belfast was later cut through so it's changed quite a lot but the curving street still remains. It's a new cycle route initiative led by @andccg.bsky.social which should launch in June as part of @cyclinguk.bsky.social cycle week 👍

A cracking day for the first Park Pedal in Castle Park organised by @andccg.bsky.social @cyclingireland.bsky.social Family friendly cycling in the park was good craic and great to see so many people getting involved. Thanks to the organisers.

Something for the diary 🙂🚲👇 cycul.cc/products/rid...

Doing a bit of work on a new heritage cycle trail for Bangor, one of the stops of course is the site of Bangor abbey, seen here on Thomas Raven's map, but also an interesting possible elliptical enclosure around the abbey picked up on the OS 1st ed map. Not sure this has been spotted before 🤔

Oh no, here we go, not the bel tel as well 😭 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/colu...

As the Climate Action Plan 2025 (CAP25) is set to go to Cabinet today, the Irish Cycling Campaign is calling on government to clearly back cycling as a core climate solution – & to protect the funding & delivery needed to make it work. @news.rte.ie @nuachttg4.bsky.social cyclist.ie/2025/04/pres...

🗞️ Our Newsletter will be going out to members soon- if you live in the highlands and ride bikes Join up to recieve it highlandcyclecampaign.org/join/

Royal Canal Greenway opens fully from Glasnevin to Dorset St; final sections progressing The Royal Canal Greenway between Glasnevin/Phibsborough to Drumcondra/Dorset Street is now fully opened, and shared toucan crossings are now operational at both ends. IrishCycle.com previously reported that…

Critical Mass in Belfast last night. All ages gather for a mass cycle ride around the streets. You should try it. Last Friday of every month.

If only we could block roads like this when it wasn’t a football celebration…

There was this whole thing where people said the French wouldn't embrace bicycle commuting like the Dutch because of inherent cultural traits and these lanes would be ghost towns. Instead, obviously, bike usage exploded as soon as the infrastructure was made available. These are all lessons people!

"The driver served nine months, I got a life sentence" - harrowing testimony on RTÉ Radio 1 just now from the mother of a 16 year old boy who was killed by a driver. The justice system is letting down the families of road violence victims and hampering efforts to improve road safety. #RoadSafety

Some of our members are forming a new campaign group looking at improving the connectivity between public transport and cycling in the Highlands. What issues should they look at?

Sunday morning

Spot on article here on Belfast road.cc/content/feat...

Although the number of people killed, 58, was 16% lower than 2023, our dysfunctional driving culture and the rampant dangers it leads to still makes getting around a risky proposition for far too many.