If you are in Dublin, please support this. If not, you can email or call your TD (and Minister Seán Canney TD is the Galway TD with responsibility for Road Safety) and ask them to attend the Love30 presentation on Thursday.

@irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social Damien O'Tuama was out on the newly opened Carlingford-Newry greenway. Report on BBC NI: www.bbc.com/news/article... The report deals with the strong opposition from landowners to its progress onwards to Dundalk. @cyclingireland.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social

Join us with Love 30 at the Dáil to defend 30km/h speed limits! ⭕️ Stop the U-turn on safer speeds 📍 Outside Dáil, Kildare Street D2 📆 2 October ⏰ 10.30am - 11.30am 30km/h limits SAVE LIVES. We need to stop this U-turn and YOU can help on Oct 2. www.love30.ie/saving-lives...

Well done to the @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social for their work on the new Irish Primary School Curriculum. Cycling has been moved from the "adventure" activity area to "Active Living" in the Wellbeing Spec Irish Cycling Campaign Submission on Wellbeing Curriculum – share.google/Z93TeanM7m0Q...

Delighted to see this in this weeks updated primary curriculum docs. A lot of work from the @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social team putting together a strong submission emphasising the importance of cycling to mobility, independence and more.

A reminder that this rally is happening this coming Thursday 2nd Oct. Please support it if you can by joining us on the day or contact your local TDs & ask them to attend the Love 30 presentation in the AV room. This effects rural Ireland as much as it does our larger towns and cities. Bígí linn!

Shílfeá go gcuirfeadh siad foscadh beag ar na rothair bhochta sin a bheidh ar aghaidh an Atlantaigh Fhiáin... @galwaycycling.bsky.social

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

Walk anywhere in Amsterdam and you’ll sense a calm coherence: bricks, curbs, fixtures, benches, bollards and drains that look related. This isn’t accidental. It’s a product of the Puccini Method, the city’s standards—part design language, part technical playbook—for shaping every street and square.🧵

The sustainable mobility revolution needs storytellers to show there is more than one way to move. When the narrative is missing,misinformation takes hold, fueling claims like cycling kills local businesses or that traffic-calming is anti-car. The latest for Zag Daily 👉 zagdaily.com/featured/the...

SUVs (not just oversized) endanger vulnerable road users. Electric or fossil-fuel, they harm health and the environment. They waste space and symbolise failed transport policy. Our streets should be full of children and adults cycling, not clogged with SUVs. SUVs don’t belong in our cities!

#Galway is a nightmare I regularly have to put my life in the hands of drivers as I try to walk across roundabouts that have no pedestrian crossings. Zero ambition for public active transport.

Spot on letter to the editor! Time for politicians to bite the bullet. Another ring road is an outdated non-solution that will increase emissions and car dependence. Let’s fast-track a light rail network for Galway, paired with world-class active transport infrastructure. Now that’s a solution!

Ed Sheeran spotted riding a vanRaam Fun2Go duo bike! Last Thursday, vanRaam (#DCEnetwork) received a special phone call from their Polish dealer. Ed Sheeran wanted to take a ride on the Fun2Go duo bike during his visit to Wrocław. 📸 @LifeOfUtkarsh on YT

Playgrounds in the city earlier ❤️ Another at Claddagh playground and 3 more outside coffee shops. With so many parents looking for a healthy way to enjoy quality time with their children, Galway is quickly becoming the cargo bike capital of Ireland.

The bike is not a perfect replacement for the car, as it lacks the required range. Likewise, the train lacks the door-to-door convenience. But combine these two modes into a single system, and a seamless mobility option is unlocked—capable of reducing congestion by replacing thousands of car trips.🧵

Here we go - Hitch delivers the zinger

One of two good pieces about cycling in Ireland in today’s Irish Times. @dublincycling.bsky.social @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @galwaycycling.bsky.social @cianginty.bsky.social @cyclinginkilkenny.bsky.social @spillanemike.com

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

Hats off to this French family here on holidays. Came on the ferry into Ringaskiddy. We hope they have a wonderful time in Ireland 👏☘️ #Cork #cycling #sustainability #adventure

Whats stopping a Greenway beside the railline? Long-awaited Sligo Greenway may be in jeopardy over Irish Rail objections

"Kortrijk Cycles Cyclists, take your place in front of cars Cars do not overtake cyclists and drive at a maximum speed of 30 km/h."

#HeritageWeek in Galway City / Join Galway City Council's Architectural Conservation Officer with @galwaycycling.bsky.social for a cycle through Galway City’s past + present. Booking now open: www.galwaycity.ie/heritageweek Length of route: Approx. 6km; Booking required.

Texts with husband this AM:

Unbelievable, how simple it is. Create connections between popular destinations and separate bikes from cars. Then you get a ton of usage. #sandiego #bikesky #safestreets

Finally able to celebrate with a Abbey Road theme our first North Central Area #ZebraCrossing on Mount Prospect Avenue Clontarf. Hopefully the start of many and just in time for back to school. www.dublininquirer.com/in-a-clontar...

Bicycle storage to front of houses to be exempt from planning permission irishcycle.com/2025/08/04/b...

This is of course welcome and long overdue. But it is needed everywhere, all at once across Galway. It's remarkable that the Active Travel team is at full capacity with other projects. We are playing catchup. The City Council needs to apply for more Active Travel staff and #GetGalwayMoving

Somehow I doubt that is what happened & is exactly why I use cameras.

Galway city centre was especially busy last Saturday, with racegoers, summer tourists and the unusual addition of a march by far-right agitators, met by an anti-fascist counter demonstration, causing a number of streets to be closed during Raceweek www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

In the 1960s, the British brand Moulton outsourced assembly of their innovative small-wheeled bicycles to foreign brands: DBS in Norway, Malvern Star in Australia, Stokvis in the Netherlands, Raleigh in South Africa, Bianchi in Italy, Fuji in Japan, and Huffy in the USA.

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” theprogressplaybook.com/2024/01/31/w...

Carbrain affects engineers, officials, politicians, ordinary motorists and non-motorists. Cars are speeding - raise the speed limits. Cars are breaking red lights - increase the sequence lengths. Cars are rat-running - build bigger roads. Junctions are over capacity - build more junctions. Plan B?

"City officials said while they're constantly working to tweak the traffic network, there's no magic solution to the constraints - except possibly the #GalwayCityRingRoad down the line." Hopeless. Pitiful. Farcical. www.galwaybayfm.ie/galway-bay-f...

Almost six years ago I bought a set of @vaude.bsky.social panniers. During my last trip they had an issue that couldn't be fixed. Vaude chose to replace them and they just arrived. This is world class customer service that you don't even realise when buying it.

They did that “person collided with car and died” thing, but in the ocean. No, the whale didn’t collide with a boat. A person driving a boat hit a whale and killed it.

Who would've thought? Lower speed limits, better public transport, quality walking and cycling infrastructure, and putting people before cars actually works. Too bad the Irish government still refuses to take any of it seriously.

Camden High Street—North London's acclaimed attraction bustling with shops, markets, music venues, and subcultural energy—is currently conducting a long-overdue experiment: a 12-month pedestrianisation trial aimed at rebalancing the public realm in favour of human beings rather than motor vehicles.🧵

- "the ring road has no clothes and somebody has to say it. The sooner it is abandoned in favour of investing in public transport, the better it will be for Galwegians." Peter Butler in @galwayadvertiser.bsky.social saying what many see but few can say. www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

Riding to Leiden one final time. Everyone should have access to cycling infrastructure this good.

Any citizen, with a small bit of effort and organisation, could go out and observe many more traffic law violations over the course of a week than are reported, on average, by AGS. The level of roads policing in Ireland is pathetic.

I don’t think I could manage my extremely busy and stressful life without walking as much as I do. If I primarily drove, my physical health would be much worse and my mental health would be a huge challenge. Walking creates space to decompress, slow down, and to create my best ideas and solutions.

“Cyclists move like a swarm of sparrows,” he said. “There are thousands of them moving in chaos, but there are no collisions. They turn a little bit; they change their speed. You must do the same.”

"But what if you need to carry 3 kids, 40 lb of cat litter and a Tern HSD?" #bikedc

Kids in the north inner city list what they want fixed in the neighbourhood. Dublin City Council is employing artists to work with children to co-design improvements to the area. www.dublininquirer.c...

Even for an old hand there’s a first time for everything - quaxing my old-meets-new prosthesis home from the limb centre.

Great piece from Kevin Jennings from @galwaycycling.bsky.social and the @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social Executive Committee. He highlights the positives of cycling in a city like Galway & the easy wins that are waiting to be won to boost cycling in the city. www.galwaybayfm.ie/podcasts/gal...

"We cycled down to the local GAA pitch, maybe 3 or 4 miles down the road. Parents weren't as protective because they probably felt it was safer ..." Galway TD Deputy Fitzmaurice gets it but will he name it? Why did parents feel it was less dangerous then? www.galwaybayfm.ie/galway-bay-f...

One of the best benefits of Congestion Pricing was how much quieter the streets have gotten. Everyone hates car noise

Last Night in Galway's Westend was absolutely magic as a choir of kayakers floated on the Eglinton Canal, accompanied by live music and choreographed canoeing ✨ 🌊 'Voices on the Water' is part of Westend Theatre & Arts Festival and was dreamt up by the brilliant Tracy Bruen and Galway Kayak Club!